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My name's Eric Shoemaker, and I'm a poet excited to support Tupelo Press by writing every day this month--March 2025!

(March is my birth month, so you can expect some fiery Aries poetry if you stick around!)

Independent nonprofit presses are the lifeblood of today's poetry. Without the hard-working folks at these presses, who publish work they believe in knowing that they're not going to make tons of money off it, literature would be totally tied to profit and would stagnate. We always need people willing to risk it for art, and nonprofit presses like Tupelo are doing the work.

It doesn't take much to make an impact with a small press! Donate what you're able, and remember, if you can't donate, you can still support this work by sharing my posts and poems and those of other writers involved in 30/30. You can also buy Tupelo's books! Your shares will get other people excited about literature, and they will read and donate and share the work. Share the love!

AND you've got these perks to look forward to if you donate and make sure your name is visible so I can contact you:

• $15 or more and I will send you a personalized postcard!
• $25 or more and I'll write a poem for you based on a prompt you give me! The prompt can be anything: a word, an idea, a picture, an ode to a person—I’ll try it out!

($15 is about the price of a nice cocktail in Chicago, where I live, so keep that in perspective)

Stay in touch with 30/30 through Tupelo's pages and social media and find me online through my website, reshoemaker.com! You can sign up for my newsletter or follow me on social media from my website.

I'm excited to write for/with/amongst you this month!

-Eric

Robert Eric Shoemaker (he/him) is a poet, translator, and interdisciplinary artist. His book of essays, Magical Poetics: The Magic of Language and Real-World Effect Poetry, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He is the author of Ca’Venezia (Partial Press, 2021), an artist’s book of hybrid writing and visual art; We Knew No Mortality (Acta Publications, 2018), poetry and memoir; and the poetry chapbook 30 Days Dry (Thought Collection Publishing, 2015).

Eric’s work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best New Translation, and he has won honorable mention in Spoon River Poetry Review’s Editor’s Prize. His writing is published with Rain Taxi, Zone 3, Tupelo Quarterly, Spoon River Poetry Review, Jacket2, ANMLY, the Poetry Foundation, Rattle, Asymptote, Exchanges, Signs and Society, and others.

Your support gives me vital inspiration as I write for thirty days this month.

Supporting Tupelo Press is a way to directly support the humanities during this time of federal uncertainty. Tupelo is committed to publishing a diverse array of authors of different sexual, gendered, racial, ethnic, and other identity backgrounds, so you’re also supporting voices of all types!

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.

Every dollar gives me confidence to write more, and helps the press place more poems in gorgeous books. Help me to help this distinguished press. Give today!