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News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

Ana Bozicevic wins Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Poetry

News to which we can add little but Congratulations! and sappy stuff that we'll not post publicly....

Max Winter’s Walking Among Them

By which we mean, Max Winter's long-awaited second collection of [...]

Shelly Taylor: Lions, Remonstrance

Winner of the Elizabeth P. Braddock Prize, Shelly Taylor's Lions, Remonstrance is now out from Coconut Books. Taylor is the author of Black-Eyed Heifer, from Tarpaulin Sky Press, as well as Dirt City Lions (Horse Less Press). She is co-editing Hick Poetics, an anthology of rural poetries, with poet Abraham Smith which will be released in the next year.

me vocas ad scribendum: Books Received & Available for Review

21 books from Action, Ahsahta, belladonna, Black Ocean, BlazeVox, Bloof, Brooklyn Arts, Calamari, Dusie, Fence, Les Figues, Octopus / Tin House, Ugly Duckling, and University of Arizona.

Arianne Zwartjes’ Detailing Trauma: A Poetic Anatomy reviewed by Lindsey Drager

"[V]isceral resistance to the text says more about the reader than the writer—the body’s failure, an inevitability we spend most our lives trying to conveniently forget, is one we often find ourselves blindsided by because we do not put our mortality at the forefront of our days."

Kristina Darling’s and Carol Guess’s X Marks the Dress: A Registry reviewed by Tyler Mills

"[A] fascinating dialogue ... between the authors, between traditional and experimental forms, and between desires that cannot be contained within the roles so often assigned to gender."

Chris Tysh’s Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic reviewed by Mark Kerstetter

We gain by this a taut, measured and beautiful poem constructed from the symphony of black, poisoned and rejected flowers that make up the living body of Genet’s novel, that are indeed the reason for its very existence.

Carina Finn’s Lemonworld & other poems reviewed by Jeffrey Hecker

sunny winter – hide your eyes! / monday ashes chernobyl child. / lost: jupiter marilyn knit cardigan / leaving flying propane nightmares./kaboom!/let me play the violin for you....

Noted: Elena Georgiou & Bhanu Kapil

Elena Georgiou has a lovely new website--where, among other things, she responds to questions from Bhanu Kapil in addition to taking questions from the "general public" for what appears to be a sort of prose-poem agony column (as the Brits call it).

Jean Valentine’s “Shirt in Heaven” reviewed by Elisabeth Whitehead

"There are thresholds, doors, windows to cross though. In silence and listening, a reaching. The hunger and drive to find a bridge...."

C.D. Wright’s “Shallcross” reviewed by Celia Bland

"Shallcross testifies to an artistic truth rather than a factual one, including gestures toward the ghost world, the dusk where evening comes down, but with always keeping an eye on the light of the sun, the places where a self comes into its own, speaking of 'wonder and regret.'"

J’Lyn Chapman’s “Beastlife” reviewed by Arianne Zwartjes

"A sumptuous feast and a rotting; grotesque and greenly lavish all at once. Published by Calamari Archive in 2015, Beastlife is a beautifully designed book, delicious to the eyes as it is to all the other senses.... Bursting with fecundity and fetid detail, with lush green overgrowth and the stench of death and feathers."