Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
featuring
Transgenre / Hybrid Monsters
Mark Baumer & Claire Donato: “Siblings Not Siblings”
"Our ultimate goal was to write a book. What crystallized instead is this email thread, composed less than a month before Mark left for his second cross-country walk...."
Anna Maria Hong, Excerpts from “H & G”
"It was another 30 years before G. felt that very few people wanted to eat her or do her monstrous harm. Most people, she concluded, had enough of a handle on themselves to be indifferent, and only a few were wired to commit murder, cannibalism, child sacrifice...."
Guillermo Filice Castro, Poems and Photographs
"Kiss your lover’s back where dark meets light, I say. // Bésame mucho, please. I’m a sucker for it. // Ok skin—blood—tingle—are you all ready? // Here it comes."
Transgenre / Hybrid Monsters
Mark Baumer & Claire Donato: “Siblings Not Siblings”
"Our ultimate goal was to write a book. What crystallized instead is this email thread, composed less than a month before Mark left for his second cross-country walk...."
Anna Maria Hong, Excerpts from “H & G”
"It was another 30 years before G. felt that very few people wanted to eat her or do her monstrous harm. Most people, she concluded, had enough of a handle on themselves to be indifferent, and only a few were wired to commit murder, cannibalism, child sacrifice...."
Fiction
Carole Maso: excerpt from “The Bay of Angels,” a novel-in-progress
"A green and downy sheet of sounds. You make a most extraordinary music. A beautiful music--boots cannot drown out, soldiers cannot outcount. We remember...hiding inside every leaf. Shining through the paper thin. Chlorophylled awhile."
Miranda Metelski, Excerpts from “Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed”
“Spiders crawl down my thighs, across my abdomen. A kind of scholarly pornography.” — from Miranda Metelski’s Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed, a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prizes.
Bridget Brewer, excerpt from “Beasts of Revelation”
"A flash of lightning from outside the cave, a brief illumination: snake heads, so many snake heads, swaying inches from the tip of her nose. ‘Emmeline,’ the heads say together in a language not legible above ground. ‘O crooked, ugly Emmeline: you are blessed.’" -- from Bridget Brewer's Beasts of Revelation, semifinalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prizes.
Fiction
Carole Maso: excerpt from “The Bay of Angels,” a novel-in-progress
"A green and downy sheet of sounds. You make a most extraordinary music. A beautiful music--boots cannot drown out, soldiers cannot outcount. We remember...hiding inside every leaf. Shining through the paper thin. Chlorophylled awhile."
Miranda Metelski, Excerpts from “Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed”
“Spiders crawl down my thighs, across my abdomen. A kind of scholarly pornography.” — from Miranda Metelski’s Resisting the Book of a Woman Possessed, a finalist for the 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prizes.
Poetry
Evan Gray, excerpts from “Wretch Poetics”
"as the river / floods to the horse’s / bridle. with blood. / yes lord. it will never / run dry."
Five poems by Biswamit Dwibedy
"to the glories of the dark longing you see in an aspirant on the path of devotion. Often used to bring the inner organs into control. You breathe in one image and breathe out a different night..."
Four poems by Martin Corless-Smith
"It took a century to realize / Earth had died inside / a tin cup left upon a wall / the slowworm struggled in the glare until the hawk arrived."
Poetry
Evan Gray, excerpts from “Wretch Poetics”
"as the river / floods to the horse’s / bridle. with blood. / yes lord. it will never / run dry."
Five poems by Biswamit Dwibedy
"to the glories of the dark longing you see in an aspirant on the path of devotion. Often used to bring the inner organs into control. You breathe in one image and breathe out a different night..."
Book Reviews
Sade LaNay’s “Härte” Reviewed by Steven Dunn
"Härte is the language of liminality, labor, pain, and transference.... Accumulated exhaustion ... how we negotiate responding to violence, and how we enact violence."
Elytron Frass’ “Liber Exuvia” reviewed by Maxime Berclaz
"A binding of media under the sign of the mantis to instantiate the cannibalism of the head, a ritual for auto-decapitation and regrowth, a production of what is seemingly negation."
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
Book Reviews
Sade LaNay’s “Härte” Reviewed by Steven Dunn
"Härte is the language of liminality, labor, pain, and transference.... Accumulated exhaustion ... how we negotiate responding to violence, and how we enact violence."
Elytron Frass’ “Liber Exuvia” reviewed by Maxime Berclaz
"A binding of media under the sign of the mantis to instantiate the cannibalism of the head, a ritual for auto-decapitation and regrowth, a production of what is seemingly negation."
Reading Guides
What I’m Reading Now… by Steven Dunn
Tarpaulin Sky Press author Steven Dunn discusses books by Ron Austin, Caren Beilin, Julia Bouwsma, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Lisa Marie Rollins.
What I’m Reading Now… by Michael Leong
Michael Leong discusses "Fake News" and books by Caroline Bergvall, Robin Coste Lewis, Solmaz Sharif, Layli Long Soldier, and Divya Victor.
What I’m Reading Now… by Sophie Yanow
Cartoonist Sophie Yanow discusses literary comics by Liana Finck, Aisha Franz, Jason, Powerpaola, Keiler Roberts.
What We’re Reading Now ….
What I’m Reading Now… by Steven Dunn
Tarpaulin Sky Press author Steven Dunn discusses books by Ron Austin, Caren Beilin, Julia Bouwsma, Kali Fajardo-Anstine, and Lisa Marie Rollins.
What I’m Reading Now… by Michael Leong
Michael Leong discusses "Fake News" and books by Caroline Bergvall, Robin Coste Lewis, Solmaz Sharif, Layli Long Soldier, and Divya Victor.
Music(k)
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
A Symphony Of The Mind
"We are all in transition, at every moment. Part of the artist-'shaman'-musician’s job is to help us through this endless series of transformations. To use our non-binary mindsets to help our materialist friends acclimate to the idea that 'the journey is home'."
Things To Do When You Pick Up A Guitar
"Look around at the people in front of you, if any, or the animals, plants, air molecules. Try to get a feel for them without passing judgement or drawing any major conclusions."
Musick
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
A Symphony Of The Mind
"We are all in transition, at every moment. Part of the artist-'shaman'-musician’s job is to help us through this endless series of transformations. To use our non-binary mindsets to help our materialist friends acclimate to the idea that 'the journey is home'."
Occult Works
Elytron Frass’ “Liber Exuvia” reviewed by Maxime Berclaz
"A binding of media under the sign of the mantis to instantiate the cannibalism of the head, a ritual for auto-decapitation and regrowth, a production of what is seemingly negation."
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."
New from Ignota Books: “Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry”
New holy text from TS High Priestess Bhanu Kapil appears in the debut publication of Ignota Press, Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry, along with work by Ursula K. Le Guin, Kaveh Akbar, and a host of TS faves: CAConrad, Lucy Ives, Dorothea Lasky, Ariana Reines, et al.
Occult Works
Elytron Frass’ “Liber Exuvia” reviewed by Maxime Berclaz
"A binding of media under the sign of the mantis to instantiate the cannibalism of the head, a ritual for auto-decapitation and regrowth, a production of what is seemingly negation."
Party For Your Right To Fight: Michael Hughes’ “Magic For The Resistance”
"Everything’s here, from clear & concise technical instruction, to tales of occult anti-Nazi ww2 actions, to self-care ... to recipes for spells ... for hexing the NRA, for justice for victims of police violence, for healing the Earth, for reproductive rights."