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
August Poets
Zoe Berger
Zoe Berger is a writer whose work appears in The Poetry Society of New York's journal Milk Press, Antiphony Press, Wild Roof Journal, and Thimble Literary Magazine, among others. She has been supported by residencies from Tupelo Press and is the Poetry Editor for Pinky Magazine. Zoe is an incoming MFA candidate in NYU’s Creative Writing Program. She can be found on Instagram @sadspot.
Ashley Howell Bunn
Ashley Howell Bunn (she/they) completed her MFA in poetry through Regis University and holds a MA in Literature from Northwestern University. Their first chapbook, in coming light, was published in 2022 by Middle Creek Publishing, and her first full-length collection, burning, breaking, building, was published by South Broadway Press in 2026. Their work has been supported by Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and Sundress Publications. She is an adjunct instructor of English at the Community College of Denver and the Youth Program Manager at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. When she isn’t writing, she is practicing yoga, running in the sunshine, playing with her kids, or daydreaming and staring off into space.
Dahhee Chung
Dahhee Chung is a forty-five year old Korean American female writer and Yoga Teacher from Los Angeles California. Until recently, she asked herself each smoke break, “What do I want to be when I grow up?” She taught yoga for exactly 20 years this June and wrote in private journals and notes on her phone, but didn’t dare submit anything because of the forms to fill and converting to pdf is daunting. But the answer to her question has always been, “A published author.”
Alison Henderson
Alison Henderson is a poet and interdisciplinary writer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Montreal, her work explores incarceration, recovery, wilderness, family, and the institutions that shape identity and belonging. She is currently completing her first full-length poetry collection. She is honored to be part of the Tupelo Press 30/30 Project.
Ash Kemp
Ash Kemp reads and writes about things others avoid thinking about so she can find a way to process them. She is neurodivergent, chronically ill, always trying to lighten the mood with a bit of dark humor. A Midwestern home educator by day, voracious speculative fiction reader at night, she has reviews in Hyperfocus Horror and The New Territory. Find her on Instagram and Threads @occasionally_educational
Hannah Page
Hannah Page’s poetry has been featured in New Feathers Anthology, Tupelo Quarterly, Suburban Witchcraft Magazine, StreetLit, Merion West, Pink Disco Magazine, and elsewhere. She is currently polishing her debut collection, To Unravel is Not Always to Fall Apart. Hannah serves as Production Assistant for Tupelo Quarterly. She holds an MFA from Columbia University and lives and works in NYC. Find her on Instagram at @blank_page47
PF Potvin
A few years ago, PF Potvin participated in a 30/30 Project and found the experience motivating and instrumental in germinating new work. A few poems from that time were published in Bear River Review. Potvin is the author of the prose poetry collection The Attention Lesson (No Tell Books). His writing has appeared in Black Warrior Review, Boston Review, PANK, MiPOesias, PBS NewsHour, Sentence, Passages North, An Introduction to the Prose Poem anthology, and elsewhere. His manuscripts have been finalists for the New Issues Press Competition and Cleveland University's Poetry Center Prize. Potvin has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center and Casa Libre en la Solana. He holds an MFA from Bennington College where he was awarded the Jane Kenyon poetry scholarship. Potvin teaches writing, chairs the campus writing awards, and serves as faculty advisor for the student-run journal Lyceum at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
Janette Schafer
Janette Schafer is a poet, photographer, playwright, and realtor living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Chatham University. She is the author of three poetry collections and the chief editor of two literary anthologies. Her writing and photographs have appeared in numerous journals, newspapers, and websites, including Vox Populi, The Missouri Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Eunoia Review. She is a winner of the Academy of American Poets Prize, the Pittsburgh Original Short Play Series, and the Pittsburgh Fringe Festival.
Kate Thuma
Kate Thuma is a poet living and writing in the Greater Boston area. She is a winner of The Letter Review Prize for Poetry (2026). Her work explores embodiment, memory, and the thresholds between the tangible and the unseen, with an interest in how language approaches what resists expression. Her poems are drawn to the body as a site of inherited knowledge, where instinct and memory intersect. Her work has been supported by GrubStreet Boston, The Almanac workshop series, the Boston Writer's Salon, and Two Page Tuesday. She is currently developing her first collection. Find her on Instagram @katethumawrites.
July Poets
Clayre Benzadon
Clayre Benzadón (she / they) is a queer (bi /pan) Jewish poet, educator, and activist. Her manuscript, Moon as Salted Lemon, was published by Driftwood Press in 2025 and is a 2026 Lammy Finalist for Bisexual Poetry. Her Miami sonnet recently won second place in the Sonnet! Boom competition. She has also been published in places including Penumbra: Literary and Art Journal, Blood + Honey, and SWWIM.
RJ Equality Ingram
RJ Equality Ingram lives in Portland, Oregon & works as a necromancer & weigher of soles for Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette. RJ received their MFA in creative writing at Saint Mary’s College of California with concentrations in poetry & creative nonfiction. RJ’s two collections of poetry Peacock Lane & The Autobiography of Nancy Drew were published by White Stag. RJ is also the author of the chapbooks How To Eat An Entire Wedding Cake & Two Angels. RJ lives with their husband Michael Lee & their cats Twyla & Senator Padme Amidala who chase feathers tied to wands in the shadow of their late sister Brenda who lost a leg crossing Burnside in the moonlight.
Mera Kaur
Mera Kaur is a Montessori Educator, birth nerd, intuitive healer, mama. Mera lives in South Carolina with a gaggle of kids and a lovely garden. She has been published in Vallum, Heartwood, One Sentence Poems and other publications.
Kes Maro
Kes Maro (they/he) is a queer poet and visual artist based in Brooklyn. They were a recipient of a 2024 A4A grant and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Their work has previously appeared in Passengers Journal, Beyond Queer Words, ___figuration: An Anthology of Trans Writers, and elsewhere. They are a current MFA candidate at New York University and were a member of the Mill City Speaks slam team in 2023 and 2024. You can find them on ig: @kes.maro
Dallas (Amber) Outlaw
Dallas (Amber) Outlaw is a DEI advocate, poet, photographer and educator based in Las Vegas, NV. She completed a Bachelor's of English degree at Nevada State University, MS in HR Management, and currently earning another MS in Organizational Leadership. She has a niche for micropoems, but writes poetry focused on life's many experiences, conversations, and encounters.
As a former Tupelo Press 30/30 contributor, Dallas implores readers to engage in the nuances of the imagery and openness of the poetry she produces to get an understanding of her as a writer, and life in its many variations. She’s a mom of a toddler boy and golden retriever.
Azmia Ricchuito
For Azmia Ricchuito, writing is the highest form of alchemy. Verbal vandal built for intellectual violence. Lover girl or professional hater fluent in both poetry & menace. Therapist bc we’re all mad here. Words: Teen Vogue, Glamour, Allure, Bustle, PAPER, SELF, & more.
Tammy Smith
Tammy Smith is a poet and licensed clinical social worker from New Jersey. She is winner of the 2026 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Contest. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Thimble Literary Magazine, ONE ART, Paterson Literary Review, The New Verse News, The Stillwater Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. She received honorable mentions in the Journal of New Jersey Poets 2026 Poets Prize and the 2026 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards.
Daphne Stanford
Daphne Stanford writes poetry & nonfiction. Since 2012, she’s hosted The Poetry Show—a community radio show dedicated to interviewing poets and reading poems over the FM airwaves. She holds a BA in English from Reed College and graduate degrees in Secondary English Education and Creative Writing. Her chapbook, The Inevitable Surfacing of Bodies, was published in 2019 from Dancing Girl Press, and she is currently at work on a full-length poetry collection.
June 2026 30/30 Project Participants
The volunteer poets for June are: Kristina Byas, Shavahn Dorris-Jefferson, Jess Tønseth Lee Gleason,
Shane Moran, Jingyu Li (李静雨), and Stefanie Zito
May 2026 30/30 Project Participants
The volunteer poets for May are: Meredith Ann Avera, Desirae Chacon, Heather Frankland, John Hanright III, Jillian Humphrey, Shane Moran, Hali Sofala Jones, Christina Vagenius, and Sonya Wohletz.
April 2026 30/30 PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
The volunteer poets for April are Maureen Alsop, Bob Bradshaw, Sarah Carson, Stan Galloway,
Ava Hu, Sergiy Pustogarov, Nate Raum, Daniel Avery Weiss, and MK Zariel.
March 2026 30/30 PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
The volunteer poets for March are Kathleen Bednarek, Mymona Bibi, Susan Hankla, Amy Haworth,Elizabeth McGraw, Christina McCleanhan, and Alexis Wolfe
FEBRUARY 2026 30/30 PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
The volunteer poets for February are Kristine Anderson, Barbara Audet, Bee Cordera, Ashby Logan Hill, Amy Marques, Sonia Sophia Sura, and Samuel Spencer.
JANUARY 2026 30/30 PROJECT PARTICIPANTS
The volunteer poets for December are Tess Adams, Haley Bosse, Jess Bowe, Joanna Lee, Thomas Page, Sarah Paley, and Amy Snodgrass.
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