New Poems in Tupelo Quarterly

I am grateful to editor Kristina Marie Darling for including three new poems in Tupelo Quarterly 20 and for the very kind opening words she offers on my work:

“Emily Rosko is a rising star in contemporary poetry. She has a gift for bridging the vast expanse that is often imagined between literature and philosophy. Like the great modernist poets who came before her, particularly Mina Loy, H.D., Gertrude Stein, and Marianne Moore, Rosko proves that form and technique can be used to revise, and reclaim agency over, what is in essence a predominantly masculine intellectual tradition. Here, we offered sentences that are grammatically faultless, but within them, we find a provocative fragmentation of logic. Any preconceived ideas we have about reason, rationality, and sense-making are challenged with lyricism and grace. As each poem unfolds, Rosko brings this experimentation to bear on questions of grief, bereavement, and melancholia in language as subtle as it is nuanced.”

“When You Say You Wish You Were Dead”

“Course & Ripple”

“The Marks”