My poems can make a difference!

Poet Bio: Jory Mickelson is a queer writer, educator, and retreat leader whose work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, Ninth Letter, Vinyl Poetry, The Florida Review, Superstition Review, The Collagist, The Los Angeles Review, and other journals. He is the recipient of an Academy of American Poet's Prize and a Lambda Literary Fellow in Poetry. His most recent chapbook Slow Depth was published by Argus House Press. You can follow him at http://www.jorymickelson.com

Author Statement: The poet T.S. Elliot got it wrong. April isn't the cruelest month, February is. It's dark, it's almost spring and then the middle of winter again. It is full of crud and slush and the last five pounds from Christmas that just won't go. February is when we know we've blown it with our New Year's resolutions.

This February I need your help to dance, shimmy, sing, strut, and write my butt off. I am hoping for your encouragement and support, your dollars and your hollers to help me write a poem every day for the shortest (but longest felt) month of the year. Support me and by doing so, support a great independent poetry press. Let's get this done with a lot of enthusiasm and maybe even a little bit of grace.

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

Tupelo Press provides the canvas, I bring my words, accompanied by other 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 90 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!