News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

Danielle Vogel’s Between Grammars reviewed by m. forajter

m. forajter reviews Between Grammars by Danielle Vogel (Noemi Press, 2015): "Between Grammars suggests each book we read is an intimate relationship that leaves a lasting impression and helps formulate, not only ourselves as individuals but, our internal maps for language."

Plinth Vol.4

Beautiful monsterchild of the equinoctial super-bloodmoon eclipse, the fourth issue of Plinth, published by Unwin-Dunraven Literary Ecclesia, features work by Tarpaulin Sky Press author Claire Donato along with Purdey Lord Kreiden (whose new collection, Scolopendrum, is forthcoming from Action Books in April 2016), Nick Greer, Matthew Johnstone, A.A. Walker, Jayme Russell, C.C. Parker, Alina Popa, and Lital Khaikin.

Books received and available for review

Books by 17 authors and editors on 12 presses, including Ahsahta, Calamari, Coffee House, Commune Editions, Denver Quarterly, Les Figues, Lost Roads, Noctuary, NYU Creative Writing Program, Solid Objects, Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, and United Artists Books.

Lauren Gordon’s “Keen” Reviewed by Fox Frazier-Foley

"Lauren Gordon's chapbook Keen (Horse Less Press, 2014) is inevitably attractive to those of us who grew up reading Nancy Drew mysteries. These poems are at once unforgiving, playful, inventive, and interrogative, and to experience them is to re-read said mysteries with a certain amount of fond nostalgia, even as we re-read our younger selves—those versions of us who once absorbed these stories less critically."

2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize Winners & Finalists

We said that we'd pick two, but went ahead and picked four instead. Also: calling up first-time authors at home? There is just no better part of this job. Meet the winners and read excerpts: Steven Dunn’s novel Potted Meat, Dana Green’s fiction collection Sometimes the Air in the Room Goes Missing, Amy King’s poetry collection The Missing Museum, and Kim Parko’s novel The Grotesque Child.

Queen Mob’s Misfits

At Queen Mob's Teahouse, Reb Livingston posts a submissions call for "Misfit Documents."

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 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 Dan Rosenberg

Dan Rosenberg on Inger Christensen, alphabet, translated by Susanna Nied; Paul Celan, Breathturn into Timestead, translated by Pierre Joris; James Allen Hall, I Liked You Better Before I Knew You So Well; Eileen Simpson, Poets in Their Youth; and Aase Berg, Hackers, translated by Johannes Göransson.

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