TTR – The Tusculum Review

PJ Green | Book Review

21FebruaryTTRReviewsBassey Ikpi, Book Review, PJ Green

I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying Bassey Ikpi Harper Perennial, 2019Paperback: 272 pages; $15.99 Bassey Ikpi writes the broken, beautiful truth about living with bipolar II disorder On ESPN’s podcast The Right Time with Bomani Jones, Bassey Ikpi says that I’m Telling the Truth, but I’m Lying was initially pitched as a self-help, positivity

Meet Our New Featured Artist Editor

19FebruaryTTRTTR NewsEditor, Featured Artists, Rachel Swatzell

Rachel Swatzell is a Senior Creative Writing and Literature major at Tusculum University. Swatzell is published in The Blue Route, The Tusculum Review, The Mildred Haun Review, SHIFT: a publication of MTSU Write, and Entropy Magazine. Swatzell is the recipient of the 2018-2019 Curtis Owens Literary Award for poetry and drama. She currently serves as

Tanya Paperny, 2019 Chapbook Winner

13NovemberTTRContest Winners, Literary Prizes

Tanya Paperny, winner of the 2019 Tusculum Review Poetry Chapbook Prize. “How the Russians Ruined Their Glasses” and other poems selected by judge Bhanu Kapil.

TTR to launch annually in the fall

8AugustTTRTTR News Archives

Thank you for your continued support of TTR. We appreciate you.

TTR 2018 to launch at Old Oak Festival

5FebruaryTTRTTR News Archives

Our 2018 issue will be released to kick off the Old Oak Festival on the Tusculum College campus on April 19 at 4 PM, in the Shulman Atrium. Winner of the 2018 poetry chapbook contest will be announced.

Phillips to judge 2018 poetry chapbook prize

28SeptemberTTRLiterary Prizes

Emilia Phillips will judge our 2018 contest. You’re gonna want to get your manuscripts in for this one, folks.

Erin Elizabeth Smith

21NovemberTTRFeatured Artist

Sesquicentennial Alice A hundred and fifty years, and it’s hard to believe I’m no longer a girl, aged into bluebonnet dresses and spooned-up hair-dos. I have become a woman turned upside down in behind-the-scene featurettes, all Redbox demure, gazing with Victorian reticence into the CVS parking lot. How I got here, I never know, following

Matthew Pierce | TTR Student Staff Book Review

7MayTTRReviewsEmilia Phillips, Signaletics

Click here to read a review of Emilia Phillips’s poetry collection, Signaletics.

Susan O’Dell Underwood

4MayTTRFeatured Artist

Susan O’Dell Underwood, co-founder of Sapling Grove Press, asks, “What if we aren’t practiced enough to recognize [the sublime] when we’re face-to-face with it?”

Susan O’Dell Underwood

4MayTTRFeatured Artist

Gnosis I can’t give you everything I know, even if I wished nature held that kind of sway. Take for example the thousand heads I want to show you of grasshopper weeds, their tips like fragile, ﬂaming ﬂeece, bobbing one wave in the final pentecost of dusk. Go with me while I walk, each