News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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Stephanie Strickland’s “Ringing the Changes” reviewed by Erica Ammann
"I imagine a visual representation of Strickland’s textual cartography in which the contextualizing axes are nebulous, a mapping in the sense that it directs possible configurations of being while also conjuring an anti-topography that conducts echoes, vibrations, and undulations. " -
Will Alexander’s “A Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself”
Figuring is a monthly column that puzzles over (to figure) and gives shape to (a figure) writing, art, and environments that integrate or concern mathematics and the sciences. This month's column explores Will Alexander's The Cannibal Explains Himself to Himself.
What I’m Reading Now… by Dana Teen Lomax
Dana Teen Lomax discusses books by Ta-nehisi Coates, Franz Fanon, Laura Hershey, Raina Telgemeier, and Magdalena Zurawski.
What I’m Reading Now… by Hélène Cardona
Hélène Cardona discusses books by Laura Braverman, Anne Fitzgerald, John FitzGerald, Elizabeth Cohen, and Blas Falconer.
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Mariana Enriquez’s “Things We Lost in the Fire”
James Pate examines Mariana Enriquez's Things We Lost in the Fire (Penguin Random House): ."the literal and symbolic collapse into one another..."
What I’m Reading Now… by Aaron Coleman
Aaron Coleman discusses books by Terrance Hayes, Harris Feinsod, Emilio Jorge Rodríguez, and Lorna Goodison.
What I’m Reading Now… by Michelle Bitting
"Inside the frame of a given piece, more angles of perception, more layers of apprehension—psychological, intellectual, corporeal opportunely open up..." Michelle Bitting discusses books by Jesse Lee Kercheval, Carl Phillips, and Natalie Scenters-Zapico.
What I’m Reading Now… by Megan Kaminski
Megan Kaminski discusses books by Sherwin Bitsui, Janice Lee, Helen Oyeyemi, Kathryn Yusoff, Susan Jahoda, and Caroline Woolard.
James Pate’s Evening Signals: Reflections on Olivia Cronk
James Pate examines Olivia Cronk's Skin Horse (Action Books) and Louise and Louise and Louise (The Lettered Streets Press): "the theatrical, the occult and the unnerving..."
What I’m Reading Now… by Ching-In Chen
Ching-In Chen discusses books by Ruth King, adrienne marie brown, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kai Cheng Thom, Wai-Yant Li and Kai Yun Ching
What I’m Reading Now… by Sarah Richards Graba
Sarah Richards Graba discusses books by Christoph Keller, Jan Heller Levi, Gabrielle Civil, Duriel E. Harris, Rosamond S. King, and Octavia Butler.
Sara Wainscott’s “Insecurity System” reviewed by Caryl Pagel
"In this collection, in the span of a single crown, death is both action and inaction (“there’s time enough for that”), while a rose suggests tribute, trophy, genitalia, and motivation." — Caryl Pagel
What I’m Reading Now… by Vi Khi Nao
Vi Khi Nao dicusses books by Prageeta Sharma, Sophia Dahlin, Jessica Q. Stark, Vivian Pham, and Derek Piotr.
What I’m Reading Now… by Hanna Andrews
Hanna Andrews discusses books by Ling Ma, Rachel Cusk, Anjali Sachdeva, Mikki Kendall, and Ed Roberson
Nathan Hauke’s “Indian Summer Recycling” reviewed by James Knippen
"Nathan Hauke’s Indian Summer Recycling, a collection of postmodern pastorals, evokes a singular sense of place. Front and center is the typically disregarded detritus of rural life" - James Knippen