News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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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.
Non haec sine numine divom eveniunt: Books received and available for review
Books by 17 authors and translators on 14 presses, including Bear Star, BlazeVox, Burning Deck, Caketrain, Coffee House, Dusie, FSG, Transcendent Zero, Trembling Pillow, and University of Iowa.
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."
“In Utero”: Featuring excerpts from finalist manuscripts for the 2015 TS Book Prize
We're thrilled to announce the launch of a new section at TS Magazine: "In Utero," featuring finalist manuscripts for the 2015 TS Book Prize. We feel confident these little monsters will be published by various smart presses in the near future, and we're doing our part to play midwife to that eventuality.
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.
ATELIER SPATIAL AMERICA PRONGS (ASAP): A MANIFESTO
by Claire Donato & Jeff T. Johnson: "1. With the spirit of Arakawa and Gins, we have decided not to die. 2. Our decision not to die takes place in the wake of killing our project, Special America . . ."
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 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 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.
Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk’s “ABRA” reviewed by Lisa A. Flowers
"Abra (short for cadabra), the brainchild of poets Kate Durbin and Amaranth Borsuk and designer Ian Hatcher, is a wormhole for the era ... one that's a cosmic, fangy, hallucinogenically-venomed, Edenic pleasure to bite into."
What I’m Reading Now… by Quintan Ana Wikswo
Quintan Ana Wikswo on Monique Wittig, Andrew Joron, Leonard Peltier, Olga Viso, Gloria Moure, Hannah Arendt, Aimé Césaire, Eduardo Galeano, Margaret Randall, Andrew Boyd, and more.