Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
Recent Delights
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions: an Interview with Min Kang
Julia Cohen's and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions An [...]
Interview with Tameca L Coleman
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. Opening 2023's line-up, Tameca L Coleman discusses their book an identity polyptych (The Elephants, 2021) the complexities of photograph as memory and committing violence in a text.
Recent Delights
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions: an Interview with Min Kang
Julia Cohen's and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions An [...]
Interview with Tameca L Coleman
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. Opening 2023's line-up, Tameca L Coleman discusses their book an identity polyptych (The Elephants, 2021) the complexities of photograph as memory and committing violence in a text.
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. "
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
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."
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. "
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
Review of Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World”
"[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
Review of Mike Corrao’s “Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede”
AM Ringwalt reviews Mike Corrao's Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede from 11:11 Press.
Book Reviews
Review of Madison McCartha’s “Freakophone World”
"[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
Review of Mike Corrao’s “Rituals Performed in the Absence of Ganymede”
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 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
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions: an Interview with Min Kang
Julia Cohen's and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions An [...]
Interview with Tameca L Coleman
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. Opening 2023's line-up, Tameca L Coleman discusses their book an identity polyptych (The Elephants, 2021) the complexities of photograph as memory and committing violence in a text.
Columns
Julia Cohen’s and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions: an Interview with Min Kang
Julia Cohen's and Abby Hagler’s Original Obsessions An [...]
Interview with Tameca L Coleman
Original Obsessions seeks to discover the origins of writerly curiosity -- the gestation and development of these imaginings -- focusing on early fixations that burrowed into an author's psyche and that reappear in their current book. Opening 2023's line-up, Tameca L Coleman discusses their book an identity polyptych (The Elephants, 2021) the complexities of photograph as memory and committing violence in a text.
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.
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.