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IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

Get ’em Before They’re Ghost

Did you know that Greying Ghost Press publishes gorgeous hand-bound chapbooks? Of course you did. But did you know that most of them are sold out? You should. Which is why we're letting you know that you should stock up on these recent ones before they are gone as well....

Recommended: Rabble, Jack Torrance’s “All work and no play,” critical essays on actual paper (4-panel pamphlets!), from Insert Blanc Press

Do you like paper? A lot? Do you fetishize it, stroke its fine grain, sniff its woodsy bouquet? Do you like going to your earthbound mailbox and finding something inside other than a bill from a company that hates everything about you except for your debt? Were you recently without electricity and thought, dang, maybe there remains a place for the printed word after all? Do you know that you are a real writer because you have boxes upon boxes of postcards and news clippings and a Xeroxed copy of the "Rules for use of the Game Room" at a Natural Bridge, VA, campground, and other scraps of paper that you have collected over the years, a collection that looks and smells remarkably like your idea of a "soul," whereas your 3TB portable hard-drive is super handy but, as an object, somewhere between meh and ugh? Do you know about Rabble, from Insert Blanc Press?

Recommended (online) reading: Interview with Tim Roberts of Counterpath

At HTML Giant, John Pluecker interviews Tim Roberts, co-founder of Counterpath in Denver. Pluecker's intro to the interview explains why you may want to read about Roberts (& co-founder Julie Carr) and, you know, generally support Counterpath. And specifically too, by going there and/or buying their books. Writes Pluecker: "I'd been thinking a lot over the last year about how to nurture innovative writing communities and build structures to support those communities in places where they don’t exist, or where the existing structures are rickety or shoddy. About ways to create horizontal networks of writers interested in dialogue and exchange about art and writing outside of a university context. . . . As I set out to look for different examples, one kept coming up: Tim Roberts and Julie Carr’s work to build Counterpath in Denver, Colorado. ...."

If you write anything longer than a Tweet, this discussion at Brevity magazine will explain why you should just kill yourself instead

"Leading writer/scholar" Sonya Huber explains that when she first first encountered the essay, she "didn’t have either time or mental space to read the entire piece," but instead spent her day in "turmoil," based on what she thought the essay might be about. Hubert also argues that "a piece of writing that asks me to sit down and finish it in entirety in order to understand any of it is asking for a privileged reader." And it only gets better. . . .

Poetry is Dead: Insert Blanc Press Killed It

If you come away from the following short film thinking, "Can I be next to die?" then perhaps you've missed the point. Or, perhaps, you're moi. In which case, you should try to improve yourself. Posthaste. Read these essays for starters . . .

Books, Chapbooks, & Magazines Received / Available for Review

New books from 27 authors on 16 presses, including books by kevin mcpherson eckoff, CJ Evans, Jennifer H. Fortin, Michael Heald, Scott Hightower, Sonja Kravanja, Quinn Latimer, Tony Mancus, rob mclennan, David Mutschlecne, Paul Naylor, Andrea Rexilius, Karen Rigby, Emily Rosko, Tomaž Šalamun, Sandra Simonds, Giovanni Singleton, SE Smith, Rodrigo Toscano, Chris Vitiello, Kerri Webster, Jon Woodward, and Arianne Zwartjes, from above/ground press, Ahsahta Press, Barrow Street, Cleveland State University Poetry Center, Counterpath Press, Dream Horse Press, Greying Ghost Press, Letter Machine Editions, Poor Claudia, Perfect Day Publishing, Shearsman Books, Ugly Duckling Presse, University of Akron Press, University of Iowa Press, and Western Michigan University Press.

Blake Butler & Vanessa Place made One by Christopher Higgs & Roof Books

From the room inside the room, from the house inside the house, memories of a one-legged father and various acts of jurisprudence haunt the mysterious creature who writhes in somatic isolation from one waking nightmare to another. Here, two writers have produced textual bodies, one speaking for the interior and the other describing the exterior, while a third writer has assembled these two bodies into a single grotesque symphony of chimerical language. A hitherto unprecedented collaborative experiment, One defies categorization and heralds a new approach to exploring the boundaries of authorship and narrative.

“A symbol is not a neutral command”: Emily Toder’s Science, new from Coconut Books

This week cannot be total crap, and here's proof: at least one great thing has already happened: TSky press chapbook author Emily Toder has published her first full-length collection of poetry, the sort of poetry only Emily Toder can write, poetry that makes you wonder why you don't get to live every day in the surreal Pythagorean-curio-shop-and-magic-garden world that Toder's poems inhabit, until you realize that you actually can live there every day, via the afore-alluded-to fibrous portal called a book, the newest and biggest and bestest of which is called SCIENCE, cloned by Coconut Books and made viral by Small Press Distribution.

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."

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