​Dear friends,

I’m excited to support Tupelo Press by writing every day this month!

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

I’m writing to ask you to donate, if you’re able. Here is the link to my donation page! Tupelo has been publishing since 2001, which is a nice feat for a small publisher, especially of poetry. Their journal, Tupelo Quarterly, published me last year, and I was so grateful for their support and how involved their editor was in the process. The press does wonderful things to foster young writers, often publishing first books for people who go on to big careers. 

Each month, writers like me join the 30/30 project to write poems every day to be posted on Tupelo’s website. We get to share our poems in progress, which is very cool and raises our profiles, and we raise money for Tupelo.

Anything helps! If you can’t donate at this time, please share my poems and my fundraiser page with your friends and family. My work will be posted each day of March on this page! The first two poems are up, search for my name (they’re in alphabetical order).

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.

You’ve got these perks to look forward to if you donate and make sure your name is displayed:

• $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!

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

Here again is the link to my donation page!

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

-Eric

Toodles!

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