Welcome to the 30/30 Project, an extraordinary challenge and fundraiser for Tupelo Press, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) literary press. Each month, volunteer poets run the equivalent of a “poetry marathon,” writing 30 poems in 30 days, while the rest of us “sponsor” and encourage them every step of the way.
THE 30/30 PROJECT: VOLUNTEER POETS
January Poets
Tess Adams
A Writer and a Counsellor, Tess comes from an Irish proletarian background. She has an MA in Creative Writing from Roehampton University and a postgraduate diploma in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy from the Westminster Pastoral Foundation. Her rewarding career as a Counsellor provides rich material for her writing.
Haley Bossé
Haley Bossé (they/them) is a queer writer, educator, and community builder. In 2025, they're a Sundress Academy for the Arts Trans and Nonbinary Writers Fellow and a Tin House Writers Workshop alum. Haley's first chapbook is forthcoming from Game Over Books and their published writing can be found at haleybosse.com. They live and work on Kalapuyan land in the Pacific Northwest.
Jess Bowe
Jess Bowe, also known as Jess Ptak or The Sweet Slow, is a lifelong poet and teaching artist. Much of her work contemplates the threads of motherhood, womanhood, and the quiet sacred of every day life. Jess brings poetry to events and gatherings across the Hudson Valley and beyond, typing poems on-the-spot on her vintage manual typewriter. The author of four poetry collections and two new creations-in-process, she’s most recently written poems at Steepletop’s Centennial Celebration, live from Edna St. Vincent Millay’s writing cabin in Austerlitz, NY. Jess facilitates a virtual writing group, called The Circle, and hosts several poetry workshops throughout the year.
Joanna Lee
A founder of the Richmond, Virginia community River City Poets, Joanna Lee earned her MD from the Medical College of Virginia and a Master’s in neuroscience from William & Mary. Her work has been published in JAMA, Rattle, Contemporary American Voices and elsewhere and has been nominated for both Pushcart and Best of the Net prizes. Author of the chapbook Dissections and co-editor of the anthology Lingering in the Margins, she is the current Poet Laureate for the city of Richmond.
Thomas Page
Thomas Page is a poet and writer based in Maryland in the DMV metro area. He graduated with his MFA in creative writing from the University of South Florida in May 2024. When he isn't writing, revising, or grading, he likes to travel around the country seeing all the kitsch it has to offer. His work has recently appeared in WILDSound, SoFloPoJo, and Red Coyote.
Sarah Paley
Sarah Paley's prose has been published in The New Yorker, Vogue and other magazines. Her poems published in Agni, Magma, Raritan, Barrow Street, Phantom Drift and other journals. She lives in New York City.
Amy snodgrass
Many years ago, Amy Snodgrass found herself walking around a soccer field with a stranger, a novelist. She asked Amy what kind of a writer she was, and Amy said that she wrote poetry. However, the truth was that back then, she did not write poetry. Somehow, “I write poems” just came out of her mouth and she meant it from her heart. Because Amy didn’t want to be a liar, she started to write poems.
So, poetry has saved her from being a liar and from many other bad things.
Amy is inspired by her two children, she eats a lot of Dove dark chocolate, and she figures things out by writing poems.
December 2025 30/30 Project Participants
The volunteer poets for December are Kate Bowers, Katie Collins, Ellen Ferguson, Chris Fong Chew, Davis Hicks, Victor Barnuevo Velasco, Jen Wagner, and Stacey Walker.
November 2025 30/30 Project Participants
The volunteer poets for November are Megan Bell, Jono Crefield, Alison Lake, Maya Cheav, Jada D’Antignac, Laurie Fuhr, Dominic Leach, Dawn McGuire, and Samantha Murphy
October 2025 30/30 Project Participants
The volunteer poets for September are Lilly Frank, Anna Ojascastro Guzon, Kathryn Johnson, Kimberly McElhatten, and H.T. Reynolds
September 2025 30/30 Project Participants
The volunteer poets for September were: Yael Valencia Aldana, Catherine Bai, Danielle Boodoo-Fortune, Kimberly Gibson-Tran, Kendra Brooks, Yvette Perry, Abigail Ardelle Zammit, and Amber Wei
August 2025 30/30 Project Participants
The volunteer poets for September are: Allison Baldwin, Daniel Becker, Ayana Cole Fletcher, Jaclyn Youhana Garver, Shivani G, Beth Siciliano, Ariana Suits, and Benin Lemus