Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
Recent Delights
Kelly Krumrie’s “Figuring”: 2022 Roundup
Figuring is a column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. In our THIRD ANNUAL roundup, Kelly Krumrie gathers some of her favorite art, text, tacos, and monuments of 2022.
Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World” Reviewed by Olivia Cronk and Philip Sorenson
"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s “Original Obsessions”: An Interview with Selah Saterstrom
"I can imagine writing as a Eucharistic event. In the mouth. In house. I can imagine a sentence which punches me in the stomach. Noli me tangere: touch me not. Words said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she encountered him post-crucifixion in a passage of writing considered to be some of the most difficult to interpret in the whole of the New Testament. The dominant prevailing historic read of Mary Magdalene is that she has a credibility issue." from Rancher by Selah Saterstrom (Burrow Press, 2021)
Recent Delights
Kelly Krumrie’s “Figuring”: 2022 Roundup
Figuring is a column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. In our THIRD ANNUAL roundup, Kelly Krumrie gathers some of her favorite art, text, tacos, and monuments of 2022.
Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World” Reviewed by Olivia Cronk and Philip Sorenson
"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s “Original Obsessions”: An Interview with Selah Saterstrom
"I can imagine writing as a Eucharistic event. In the mouth. In house. I can imagine a sentence which punches me in the stomach. Noli me tangere: touch me not. Words said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she encountered him post-crucifixion in a passage of writing considered to be some of the most difficult to interpret in the whole of the New Testament. The dominant prevailing historic read of Mary Magdalene is that she has a credibility issue." from Rancher by Selah Saterstrom (Burrow Press, 2021)
Hybrid / Transgenre / Monstrous Scripture
“CYCYCYCLOPS”: Nonfiction by Mike Corrao
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Ideas of Theatricality in Cinema by Mike Corrao
“Rain-Sown Wheat”: Nonfiction by Laura Joyce and Kirin Khan
"On the day my brother died, I drew the Two of Cups. Unity. Relationships. Balance. The flow of love between two people. "
Madison McCartha: Video-Poem from “The Cryptodrone Sequence”
Using technology & borrowed texts, Madison McCartha's new video-poem digitizes excerpts from his long empire-subverting poem, "The Cryptodrone Sequence."
Hybrid / Transgenre / Monstrous Scripture
“CYCYCYCLOPS”: Nonfiction by Mike Corrao
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Ideas of Theatricality in Cinema by Mike Corrao
“Rain-Sown Wheat”: Nonfiction by Laura Joyce and Kirin Khan
"On the day my brother died, I drew the Two of Cups. Unity. Relationships. Balance. The flow of love between two people. "
Poetry
“COOING”: Poetry by Dev Murphy
"It is coming to you again. You were watching a comedy special & eating tiramisu & smiling & you were drawing pictures of women swimming under stars & you were all alone & you were all right. " - from "Cooing" by Devan Murphy
Two Poems by Ryan Bollenbach
"I open the glass door into the light pollution. I taste meat. On the mall’s open mouth, fungus-crystals dagger." - Ryan Bollenbach
Maya Weeks: Excerpt from “Myth of the Garbage Patch”
"i’m going to have a heart attack if i drive like my grandpa so i am / stealing sunflowers, all i want to do is steal sunflowers, burn / the house down, trip the circuit breaker" - Maya Weeks
Poetry
“COOING”: Poetry by Dev Murphy
"It is coming to you again. You were watching a comedy special & eating tiramisu & smiling & you were drawing pictures of women swimming under stars & you were all alone & you were all right. " - from "Cooing" by Devan Murphy
Two Poems by Ryan Bollenbach
"I open the glass door into the light pollution. I taste meat. On the mall’s open mouth, fungus-crystals dagger." - Ryan Bollenbach
Fiction
Ron L. Estrada: Excerpt from “The Wind, Then Turn From It”
"bring me up where my breath will pass in a rapid staccato like it does when first walking out into the freshness of a cold morning, nearly a gasp, then skybound, where my breathing will rhythmically slow and I’ll be light and curled." - Ron Estrada
“Summer Thighs”: Fiction by Elle Nash
"I wanted to fuck god or I wanted to fuck something else that wanted me on my knees, looking up."
“Conversation of a Girl and Death”: fiction by Emma Claire Foley
"Always on the edge of my mind you’ve been a dog, a dog in the house of love who tries its hardest to negate with its own being."
Fiction
Ron L. Estrada: Excerpt from “The Wind, Then Turn From It”
"bring me up where my breath will pass in a rapid staccato like it does when first walking out into the freshness of a cold morning, nearly a gasp, then skybound, where my breathing will rhythmically slow and I’ll be light and curled." - Ron Estrada
“Summer Thighs”: Fiction by Elle Nash
"I wanted to fuck god or I wanted to fuck something else that wanted me on my knees, looking up."
Nonfiction
“CYCYCYCLOPS”: Nonfiction by Mike Corrao
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Ideas of Theatricality in Cinema by Mike Corrao
“Rain-Sown Wheat”: Nonfiction by Laura Joyce and Kirin Khan
"On the day my brother died, I drew the Two of Cups. Unity. Relationships. Balance. The flow of love between two people. "
Stephanie Dickinson: Excerpt from “Maximum Compound”
"If you leave EMCF for the hospital or any doctor’s appointment even if you are lacking a heart beat you will be shackled and handcuffed." — Stephanie Dickinson
Nonfiction
“CYCYCYCLOPS”: Nonfiction by Mike Corrao
The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and Ideas of Theatricality in Cinema by Mike Corrao
“Rain-Sown Wheat”: Nonfiction by Laura Joyce and Kirin Khan
"On the day my brother died, I drew the Two of Cups. Unity. Relationships. Balance. The flow of love between two people. "
Book Reviews
Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World” Reviewed by Olivia Cronk and Philip Sorenson
"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson
Mike Corrao’s “Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede” reviewed by AM Ringwalt
AM Ringwalt reviews Mike Corrao's Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede from 11:11 Press.
Emily Carr’s “name your bird without a gun” reviewed by M. Forajter
"This doubling imbues a deeper mysticism in the poems themselves, each one lending themselves as a new portrait of the tarot. You could create a new deck from Carr’s words." - M. Forajter
Book Reviews
Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World” Reviewed by Olivia Cronk and Philip Sorenson
"[R]emember with discomfort and admiration how a certain kind of grade-school kid can shit-talk; the shit-talk makes itself felt under and over the dominant (i.e. authority’s/ bourgeois civility’s) sound. But audible. Quite audible. The shit-talk hangs around like some funny but threatening chunk that can bop between stalactite and stalagmite. If dominant sound too is a kind of tunnel, a worm, then there’s room to make it wormed through, or it gets sucked into a freakophonic tunnel" -Olivia Cronk & Philip Sorenson
Mike Corrao’s “Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede” reviewed by AM Ringwalt
AM Ringwalt reviews Mike Corrao's Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede from 11:11 Press.
Reading Guides
What I’m Reading Now… by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham discusses books by Joshua Escobar, Anaïs Duplan, Shelley Fellers, Romina Freschi, and Aditi Machado.
What I’m Reading Now… by Michele Battiste
Michele Battiste discusses books from Barbara Ungar, Khadijah Queen, Erin Morgenstern, Marcela Sulak, and Srikanth Reddy.
What I’m Reading Now… by Michael Palmer
Michael Palmer discusses books by Kenkō, Halldór Laxness, Robert Glick, Natalie Moore, and Nancy Wayson Dinan.
What We’re Reading Now ….
What I’m Reading Now… by Paul Cunningham
Paul Cunningham discusses books by Joshua Escobar, Anaïs Duplan, Shelley Fellers, Romina Freschi, and Aditi Machado.
What I’m Reading Now… by Michele Battiste
Michele Battiste discusses books from Barbara Ungar, Khadijah Queen, Erin Morgenstern, Marcela Sulak, and Srikanth Reddy.
Columns
Kelly Krumrie’s “Figuring”: 2022 Roundup
Figuring is a column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. In our THIRD ANNUAL roundup, Kelly Krumrie gathers some of her favorite art, text, tacos, and monuments of 2022.
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s “Original Obsessions”: An Interview with Selah Saterstrom
"I can imagine writing as a Eucharistic event. In the mouth. In house. I can imagine a sentence which punches me in the stomach. Noli me tangere: touch me not. Words said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she encountered him post-crucifixion in a passage of writing considered to be some of the most difficult to interpret in the whole of the New Testament. The dominant prevailing historic read of Mary Magdalene is that she has a credibility issue." from Rancher by Selah Saterstrom (Burrow Press, 2021)
Evening Signals: Review of Paul Cunningham’s “The House of the Tree of Sores”
Evening Signals is a column by James Pate exploring the Baroque, the Gothic, the Weird, and the Fantastique in contemporary poetry and fiction: this month he examines uncanniness in Paul Cunningham's debut poetry collection.
Columns
Kelly Krumrie’s “Figuring”: 2022 Roundup
Figuring is a column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. In our THIRD ANNUAL roundup, Kelly Krumrie gathers some of her favorite art, text, tacos, and monuments of 2022.
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s “Original Obsessions”: An Interview with Selah Saterstrom
"I can imagine writing as a Eucharistic event. In the mouth. In house. I can imagine a sentence which punches me in the stomach. Noli me tangere: touch me not. Words said by Jesus to Mary Magdalene when she encountered him post-crucifixion in a passage of writing considered to be some of the most difficult to interpret in the whole of the New Testament. The dominant prevailing historic read of Mary Magdalene is that she has a credibility issue." from Rancher by Selah Saterstrom (Burrow Press, 2021)
Occult Studies
Holistic Method Musick Exercises (part 2)
Three more ways to fine-tune your magickal musicianship: "Transliterization"; "The Julian Cope 'Stone Circles N You' exercise ('channeling')"; and "Neo-Trux-ian Post-Waits-ian acoustical campfire composition."
Guitar Astrology For Greta Thunberg
5-Track performs and discusses guitar interpretations of both Greta Thunberg’s astrology chart and the position of the stars at the time that he composed this essay: September 11, 2019.
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Reflections on Olivia Cronk
James Pate examines Olivia Cronk's Skin Horse (Action Books) and Louise and Louise and Louise (The Lettered Streets Press): "the theatrical, the occult and the unnerving..."
Occult Studies
Holistic Method Musick Exercises (part 2)
Three more ways to fine-tune your magickal musicianship: "Transliterization"; "The Julian Cope 'Stone Circles N You' exercise ('channeling')"; and "Neo-Trux-ian Post-Waits-ian acoustical campfire composition."
Guitar Astrology For Greta Thunberg
5-Track performs and discusses guitar interpretations of both Greta Thunberg’s astrology chart and the position of the stars at the time that he composed this essay: September 11, 2019.