News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
What I’m Reading Now… by Piper J. Daniels
TS author Piper J. Daniels (Ladies Lazarus) discusses books by Catherine Bresner, Rosemarie Dombrowski, Akwaeke Emezi, and Danez Smith, as well as a collaboration by Elizabeth J. Colen and Carol Guess.
What I’m Reading Now… by Diana Khoi Nguyen
Diana Khoi Nguyen discusses the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as well as plays and books and pamphlets by Lauren Yee, Dan O’Brien, Thi Bui, Susan Howe, and James Salter.
What I’m Reading Now… by Chen Chen
Chen Chen discusses books and chapbooks by Denton Welch, Amy Meng, Natalie Eilbert, and Sam Herschel, as well as loving a TV lesbian dramedy with magic and intergalactic battles.
Geoffrey Babbitt’s “Appendices Pulled from a Study on Light” reviewed by Michael McKee Green
"Babbitt transmutes the language he was offered through Catholicism into the language of his readings of margins, and in turn, marginalia: the strophe of the book is transmuted into centerpiece: apostrophe. What else but alchemy or poetry could do that?"
What I’m Reading Now… by Timothy O’Keefe
Timothy O'Keefe discusses books and chapbooks by C.S. Giscombe, David Markson, Marcel Proust, Mary Ruefle, and Tomas Tranströmer.
Keston Sutherland’s “Whither Russia” reviewed by Lindsey Appell
Lindsey Appell reviews British poet Keston Sutherland’s eighteenth collection, "Whither Russia" (Barque Press, 2017).
What I’m Reading Now… by Danielle Pafunda
Danielle Pafunda holds forth on books by Josué Guébo, Ginger Ko, Esther Hautzig, and Jeff VanderMeer; anthologies by Leslie Jamison and by TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson; and more!
What I’m Reading Now… by Divya Victor
Divya Victor discusses "some enjoyments during our daily devastations" -- books by Holly Melgard, Aditi Machado, Mercedes Eng, Eric Schmaltz, and Serena Chopra.
What I’m Reading Now… by Geoffrey Babbitt
Geoffrey Babbitt discusses books by Xhenet Aliu, Laurie Sheck, Sasha Steensen, Max Wolf Valerio, and Nicole Walker.
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.
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’s “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."