News & Notes - Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

Now available: “Life After Death” a memoir by Damien Echols

Janet Maslin of the The New York Times calls Damien Echols's memoir "a haunting book" and reminds us "the story it tells is hardly over. He is living out a sequel that is no less strange and magickal than what he has already been through.”

“A long time ago someone cared about you, and stapled it”

"Oh unsung poet of the century. You worry if the toner they used is archival, you blasted muck."

100 Thousand Poets for Change

Global Event Embraces Local Issues Through Poetry, Music, Art and More; Nearly 700 Events Planned in More Than 115 Countries: September 29, 2012 marks the second annual global event of 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a grassroots organization that brings poets, artists and musicians (new this year) together to call for environmental, social, and political change, within the framework of peace and sustainability. The local focus is key to this global event as communities around the world raise their voices through concerts, readings, workshops, flash mobs and demonstrations that speak to the heart of their specific area of concerns, such as homelessness, ecocide, racism and censorship.

Birth announcements

New books by Anne Gorrick, Laird Hunt, Kimberly Lyons, Sarah Riggs, Heidi Ann Smith, and an Unnamed Mage from Calamari Press. All available from Small Press Distribution.

Firmly linked to the future: Jacket2 hosts digitized archive of Chain

Chain (1994-2005), edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr, is one among The Trinity of paper journals at whose metaphorical feet Tarpaulin Sky knelt at the golden dawn of its conversion to Trans-Genre Experimentalism and Whatnot, performing unspeakable rituals intended to birth the New-Lit Child of three entities: The Brains of Chain, The Aesthetic of 3rd Bed, and The Luciferian Will of Fence.

Received & Recommended: The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012)

Edited by Joshua Corey and G.C. Waldrep, The Arcadia Project includes sections on New Transcendentalisms, Textual Ecologies, Local Powers, and The Necropastoral, with 100 poets from the U.S. and Canada exploring what 'pastoral' means in the 21st century--including work by TSky authors Johannes Göransson, Joyelle McSweeney, and Brandon Shimoda.

Recommended: Trickhouse #15

Door #1 – Curated by Mark Menjivar: Video by Jason Reed; Door #2 – Curated by Anne Waldman: Collages by Lewis Warsh; Door #3 – Curated by Deborah Poe: Paintings by Counsel Langley; Door #4 – Curated by Eric Jordan: Videos by Raphael Umscheid; Door #5 – Curated by TC Tolbert: Objects by Erin Lynn Forrest; Door #6 – Curated by Noah Saterstrom: Videos by and conversation with Cecilia Vicuña; Door #7 – Curated by Jen Bervin: Tangles and text by A Wrecked Tangle Press; Door #8 – Curated by Nico Vassilakis: Ten Turkish Visual Poets; Door #9 – Curated by Charles Alexander: Andrew Joron, John Kwok, William Lesch; Door #10 – The Parlour: Carolie Parker, Shira Dentz, Wendy Burk, Derek Henderson, John Curl, Jeff Gibbons;

Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene reviewed by Andrea Quaid in the Los Angeles Review of Books

Quaid on Kapil's Schizophrene: "Rejecting the ideological fantasy of separation, Kapil pronounces it 'psychotic to draw a line between two places' and illuminates how a historical trauma, like a personal one, can have lasting effects that refuse to be contained in a singular time and place."

Joyelle McSweeney’s Percussion Grenade reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin

Joyelle McSweeney's Percussion Grenade is reviewed by Erin Lyndal Martin: "[McSweeney's] diction runs the gamut from virtually ululated neologisms ('Opeeeeeeeegalala!') the more technical: 'It's wired to a neural hinge inside a mountain / and swings out smoother than gravity.'.... McSweeney has no love for complacency, and she illustrates that in form and content."

Justin Limoli’s “Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms]” reviewed by M. Forajter

"This is what poetry is. Justin is better than you. Bloodletting does everything you are afraid to do. It kicks poetic convention to the curb because in the face of real suffering, none of our rules matter. Even the everyday shape of a poem cannot live up to pain. The poem repeats. The poem spills over. The poem becomes a play." — M. Forajter on Justin Limoli's Bloodletting in Minor Scales [A Canvas in Arms] (Plays Inverse 2014)

sunt ita multi ut eos carcer capere non possit: Books received & available for review

8 new books & a journal waiting on your love, from Ahsahta Press, eccolinguistics, Les Figues Press, and New Michigan Press; books by Aaron Apps, Sandra Doller, Lance Phillips, et al.

Duly Noted: Veiled Spill, Destroyer, Warden, Goat

Some things we read about people we like: Aaron Apps, Jan Clausen, Arielle Greenberg, Drew Krewer, Rebecca Wolff, Ugly Duckling Presse, et al

Laura Ellen Joyce’s “The Luminol Reels” reviewed by Elizabeth Mikesch

"To read this book is to be induced to squat above a sororal cistern in a hiked-up dress. Authoritative, excessive, and grotesque, Joyce destabilizes that trend where people write saccharine shit in technical language, which is something some writers do to endear themselves to readers when they have pissants for feelings" -- Elizabeth Mikesch on The Luminol Reels by Laura Ellen Joyce (Calamari Ink 2014)

Cody-Rose Clevidence’s “Beast Feast” reviewed By John Findura

"Few books evoke place as much as this one evokes the entirety of the natural world. Reading it makes you smell the moss and hear the sucking mud precisely because it is difficult and scattered." -- John Findura on Beast Feast by Cody-Rose Clevidence (Ahsahta Press 2014)

Duly Noted: Felix Bernstein and Vanessa Place at Fanzine

Vanessa Place: "The danger to me is not that there is art that is morally contemptible, but rather that all of us—artist and audience—want to be absolved of our own complicity in its generation beforehand and in its wake. We need to stop being such pussies."