#jessamyn smith

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Tupelo Quarterly, "generous artistic community," and "the little magazine spirit"

With today's launch of the third issue of Tupelo Quarterly, we wanted to take the excuse to highlight what we think is some innovative work in the realm of digital literary publishing.

TQ, a project of Tupelo Press, articulates in its mission, "Tupelo Quarterly cultivates generous artistic community, celebrates intellectual curiosity and creative risk, and presumes abundance. We hold the gate open, not closed."

The launch notes (from TQ1) by editor-in-chief Jessamyn Smith articulate an intentional departure from the sense of scarcity and ego that can sometimes seem to dominate the world of literary publishing. She writes that she wants to to cultivate "generous artistic community".

And as a concrete act of that generosity, TQ intern Ryan shares problems and solutions to online publishing and Wordpress as a platform (including how do you indent a poem with complex formatting?).

We're always on the lookout for innovative little magazines that are expanding Felix Pollak's vision of the "little magazine spirit" into the digital realm, and so we're excited to keep following Tupelo Quarterly.