Which leaves us helpless helpless helpless helpless

Tupelo is going to publish manuscripts from Harold Schweizer and Annie Guthrie, from out of their open reading period.  That’s good, I’m sure, but what I’m interested in is the length of the lists for Honorable Mention and Other Remarkable Work.  There are a LOT of manuscripts out there.  I just thought I should repost this list.  We’re living in a very crowded room, people.  “The chains are locked and tied across my door,” as Neil Young would say it.  Here's the electric version:

 

 

Honorable Mentions:

  

Seth Abramson, Madison, Wisconsin, Thievery

 

Desirée Alvarez, New York, New York, Enchanted Ground

 

Geoffrey Babbitt, Geneva, New York, Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light

 

Hadara Bar-Nadav, Kansas City, Missouri, Lullaby (with Exit Sign)

 

Margo Berdeshevsky, Paris, France, The Breaking Book

 

Deb Casey, Eugene, Oregon, Mothertongue 

 

Victoria Chang, Rossmoor, California, Dear P. and The Boss

 

Gary Hawkins, Black Mountain, North Carolina, Worker

 

Paul Hoover, Mill Valley, California, Gravity's Children / The Windows

 

Luisa A. Igloria, Norfolk, Virginia, Ode to the Heart Smaller than a Pencil Eraser

 

Diane Kirsten Martin, San Francisco, California, Hue and Cry

 

Juliet Rodeman, Colombia, Missouri, The Voice Of That Singing

 

Broc Rossell, Denver, Colorado, Cark

 

Martha Silano, Seattle, Washington, House of Mystery

 

Peter Strekfus, Northport, Alabama, Errings

 

Eliot Khalil Wilson, Golden, Colorado, This Island of Dogs

 

Sam Witt, Framingham, Massachusetts, Little Doomesday Books

 

Theodore Worozbyt, Covington, Georgia, Echo's Recipe

 

Gail Wronsky, Topanga, California, The World in Reverse

 

Other Remarkable Work:

  

Angela Ball, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, A Report on the Party and the Guests

 

Mary Buchinger, Cambridge, Massachusetts, my heart, and all the fields --

 

John De Stefano, New York, New York, Critical Opalescence and the Blueness of the Sky and Three-Body Problems

 

Marlon Fick, Wenzhou, China, The Tenderness and the Wood

 

Harry Griswald, San Diego, California, Under the Piano

 

Jessica Harman, Arlington, Massachusetts, Overflowing Inner Beauty TV

 

Judith Harris, Washington, D.C., Night Garden

 

George Kalamaras, Fort Wayne, Indiana, We Wore Monk Hair

 

Janet Kaplan, Brooklyn, New York, Chronicles

 

Jesse Lee Kercheval, Madison, Wisconsin, Extrajera / Stranger

 

George Looney, Erie, Pennsylvania, The Indefinite Clarity of Sky: Poems of Kinsale

 

Jacquelyn Malone, Lowell, Massachusetts, The Sedimentary Layer

 

Sawnie Morris, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, Her Infinite

 

Addie Palin, Chicago, Illinois, The Cautery

 

Linda Tomol Pennisi, Syracuse, New York, Miniscule Boxes in the Bird's Bright Throat

 

Maud Poole, New York, New York, Purse Pistol

 

Carol Potter, Corinth, Vermont, DNA

 

Jendi Reiter, Northampton, Massachusetts, Bullies in Love

 

David Roderick, Greensboro, North Carolina, The Americans

 

Susan Roney-O'Brien, Princeton, Massachusetts, Thira

 

Helen Klein Ross, New York, New York, Because of Them

 

Dennis Schmitz, Sacramento, California, Intimacy

 

Tina Schumann, Seattle, Washington, Praising the Paradox

 

Gail Segal, New York, New York, Fault Lines

 

Peter Shippy, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, this theatre of honey and faded roses

 

Katherine Soniat, Asheville, North Carolina, A Fan of Bees

 

Page Hill Starzinger, New York, New York, Vestigial

 

John Surowiecki, Amston, Connecticut, Significant Others

 

Joyce Sutphen, Chaska, Minnesota, Sleight of Hand

 

Brian Swan, New York, New York, World's Shadow

 

Molly Tenenbaum, Seattle, Washington, Umbilical Travels

 

Christian C. Thompson, Broomall, Pennsylvania, Low Growth

 

Daneen Wardrop, Kalamazoo, Michigan, Cyclorama

 

William Wenthe, Lubbock, Texas, God's Foolishness