My poems can make a difference!

Clint Frakes is a poet, writer, teacher, and naturalist living in Sedona, AZ. His poems, prose and non-fiction have appeared in over 150 journals, magazines and anthologies in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and Argentina since 1988. He was named one of the 50 Best New Poets of 2008 (Meridian Press) and received the Josephine Darner Distinguished Poet Prize (2008). Other awards include the James Vaughan Poetry Prize (2006), The Pudding House Chapbook Prize (2008) and the Peggy Ferris Memorial Prize for Poetry (2006). He is the former Chief Editor of Hawaii Review and Big Rain. Frakes is a graduate of the Naropa Institute writing program (1989) and received his MA with emphasis in creative writing from Northern Arizona University (1994). Clint received his Ph.D. with emphasis in creative writing from the University of Hawaii (2005). His most recent book of poetry, The Aching Unrest of Spheres, was released by Finishing Line Press in 2024.

Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month toward the goal of having a publication-ready manuscript before year’s end.

Tupelo Press will provide me with a week-long writing retreat at Gentle House near the Olympic National Park next summer if I meet my goal. This time will be crucial toward the goal of bringing a new manuscript of my best work to fruition in 2025!

Tupelo Press provides the canvas; I bring my words, accompanied by a cohort of fine poets, writing thirty poems in thirty days, all ours to edit and submit as we wish. 30/30 poems have been taken by over 200 journals and featured in over 40 published chapbooks, all so Tupelo Press can keep publishing exquisite and diverse voices that might never be heard otherwise.

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