Category: Poems
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“The Forensics of Family” Dana Delibovi reviews “These Saints Are Stones” for Cable Street Review
This poem is a window into Tullis’s craft. She never errs in metrics. I love free verse that carries the hint of traditional English meters. It lends modern poem the dignity and austerity of the past. Tullis does this: “There is no room inside my dress for this” is perfect…
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A Powder Keg Reckoning with Polygamy: Elizabeth Pinborough reviews “These Saints are Stones” for Exponent II
The whispers of Tullis’s family dynamics, handed down in fragments and memories—who is named after whom, whose gravestone inscription denotes which relationships—become a riveting narrative that Tullis skillfully unfurls from poem to poem. Tullis’s female ancestors garden, sew, birth babies, and keep house, holding down the material realities while men…
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“Pinto Cemetery” Featured on Poetry Daily
It is not a ghost town.There is no town.It’s a place.There is a sign and a road. “Pinto Cemetery” was featured on Poetry Daily, March 2, 2026! You can also read about the poem’s origins in my essay for What Sparks Poetry: Object Lessons: As a child, I spent a…
Millie Tullis 