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News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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What I’m Reading Now… by Andrew Seguin
Andrew Seguin on Elizabeth Bishop, Leonard Gardner, Yannis Ritsos, and Keith Waldrop, as well as Fred Moten's "whopping music of language."
What I’m Reading Now… by Shane McCrae
Shane McRae discusses "style" in poetry, via Swinburne, Helen Vendler, Louise Glück, Jorie Graham, Derek Walcott, Jeff Dolven, and Aase Berg.
What I’m Reading Now… by Rikki Ducornet
Rikki Ducornet with a short list of recommended books by Juan Pimentel, James Baldwin, Alia Malek, Tim Low, and Marwa Al Sabouni.
What I’m Reading Now… by Erin Moure
Erin Moure on Bertrand Laverdure’s Readopolis, Robert Majzels’s City of Forgetting, Louky Bersianik’s Maternative, Uxío Novoneyra’s Os Eidos, and Lupe Gómez's Camuflaxe.
What I’m Reading Now… by Ely Shipley
Ely Shipley on books by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Jennifer Firestone, Joshua Jennifer Espinoza, Eduardo Kohn, and Joseph Tafur, MD, with shoutouts to Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Ching-In Chen, Duriel E. Harris, and Orlando White.
Fox Frazier-Foley’s “Like Ash In The Air After Something Has Burned” Reviewed By Jasmine An
"Frazier-Foley unflinchingly points out humans’ capacity for cruelty, and the realities of gendered violence that are still familiar to many of us in the present day. Yet, even as the body falls prey to the bodies of others, the voices of these poems press on, seeking in their own bodily dissolution/evolution what they were denied in flesh."
The 2017 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize Winners & Finalists
We don't need to tell you that the last several months have been exceptionally brutal. Nor will we comment further, except to say it is in the context of this nationwide brutality that we read manuscripts for the 2017 TS Book Prizes.
What I’m Reading Now… by Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia
Kenyatta Jean-Paul Garcia on Marcel Proust, Danielle Pafunda, Rosebud Ben-Oni, Ariel Goldberg, David F. Walker, Essay Press, Nightboat Books, & more.
What I’m Reading Now… by Laura Mullen
Laura Mullen on books and chaps by Edwidge Danticat, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Cecilia Vicuña, Yuri Herrera, Larkin Higgins, Eléna Rivera, Christina Gruber, Marthe Reed, and Jenifer Sang Eun Park.
What I’m Reading Now… by Wendy Chin-Tanner
Wendy Chin-Tanner dicusses books by Nicole Cooley, Lauren Groff, Sayaka Murata, Kathleen Riley, and Meg Wolitzer.
What I’m Reading Now… by Tod Lippy
21 Lessons for the 21st Century, Yuval Noah Harari An [...]
Now Available: Damien Echols, “High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices That Saved My Life on Death Row”
Publishing a book on Magick is the fulfillment of a life-long dream for Damien Echols. Reading it will be the fulfillment of a dream shared by his fans and supporters.
What I’m Reading Now… by Kathy Fagan Grandinetti
Kathy Fagan Grandinetti discusses books by Erin Coughlin Hollowell, Sheila Heti, Sabrina Orah Mark, Terrance Hayes, and Tarfia Faizullah.
What I’m Reading Now… by Alifair Skebe
Alifair Skebe discusses books by Maram Al-Massri, Kathline Carr, Robert Henri, Adeena Karasick, and Peter Turchi.
Katie Jean Shinkle’s “Ruination,” reviewed by Meghan Lamb
"Condensing a war, an outbreak, an apocalyptic flourishing of the sky, and a girl’s coming of age evolution into the length of a novella....Leaving us in a state of exploded-open Ruination, Shinkle slyly invites us to pick up the pieces, to reassemble ourselves anew."