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News & Notes | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
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What I’m Reading Now… by Dexter Booth
Dexter Booth discusses books by Frantz Fanon, Bob Kaufman, Douglas Kearney, Kiese Laymon, and Bessel Van Der Kolk.
Lauren Haldeman’s “Instead of Dying” reviewed by Abigail Zimmer
"Grief does not go away, but it does evolve, often into forms that enable us to get through the day."
What I’m Reading Now… by Amy King
Amy King discusses books by Rosi Braidotti, Anthony Gierzynski, Robert Greene, Celia Kitzinger, and César Vallejo.
Brandon Brown’s “The Four Seasons” Reviewed by Chris Tysh
"Captivates with its joie de vivre ... hinges on a carnivalesque lens through which the poet filters the body and its boundless passions. The corporeal enters the poem like a string quartet: bladder, teeth, asshole, knees, all playing their minor fugues, erotic and elemental...."
What I’m Reading Now… by Catherine Wagner
"Despite the displacement, assimilation, and killing of tens of thousands of Indigenous residents and Black arrivants, Midwestern whiteness remains incompletely achieved."
What I’m Reading Now… by Juliana Spahr
Juliana Spahr discusses Poets of the Chinese Revolution (eds. Gregor Benton and Chongyi Feng) as well as books by Diane Hamilton, Karl Ove Knausgård, Andrew Piper, and Keith Richards.
Claire Wahmanholm’s “Night Vision” Reviewed by Joe Sacksteder
Joe Sacksteder reviews "Night Vision" by Claire Wahmanholm (New Michigan Press, 2017). Although it "implicates poetry as one of the obscuring forces ... 'Night Vision' will help you see in the dark."
Stephanie Young’s “It’s No Good Everything’s Bad” reviewed by Avren Keating
"How does an engaged individual accept the deep urge to confront all political and personal crises while also accepting that would be damn near impossible?"
What I’m Reading Now… by Lee Anne Schmitt
Lee Anne Schmitt discusses books by Karl Ove Knausgaard, Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich, Jacqueline Rose, Gitta Sereny, and D.W. Winnicott.
What I’m Reading Now… by Katie Jean Shinkle
Katie Jean Shinkle discusses an anthology edited by Dodie Bellamy and Kevin Killian, along with books by Sade LaNay, Steven Dunn, Juliet Escoria, and Ria Brodell.
What I’m Reading Now… by Jennifer Firestone
Jennifer Firestone discusses books by Jill Magi, Okwui Okpokwasili, Asiya Wadud, Etel Adnan, Trace Peterson, and Edwin Torres.
What I’m Reading Now… by Amie Zimmerman
Amie Zimmerman discusses books by Ashley Toliver, Khaty Xiong, Graham Foust, Joseph Donahue, and Wendy Xu.
What I’m Reading Now… by Rebecca Brown
Tarpaulin Sky Press author Rebecca Brown discusses books by John Englehardt, Richard Chiem, Franz de Waal, Mary-Kim Arnold, and Kaia Preus.
Nicholas Gulig’s “Orient” reviewed by Marlie McGovern
"To listen is to inhabit a liminal space — to vibrate in the synaptic hum between neural firings" -- Marlie McGovern on Nicholas Gulig's Orient.
What I’m Reading Now… by Oliver Baez Bendorf
Poet Oliver Baez Bendorf discusses books by Diannely Antigua, Hajjar Baban, Adrienne Maree Brown, jayy dodd, and T Fleischmann.