Poetry | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

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Poetry | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine

PUBLISHING NOTHING BY BILLY COLLINS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM

C.J. Waterman, My Teary TV Breakdown

"I watched myself laughing at puking children choking back smoke & slow roasting outside of an oven. My ‘World’s Best Dad’ t-shirt creates its own armpit stains." Excerpts from C.J. Waterman's poetry manuscript, My Teary TV Breakdown, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize

Felicia Zamora, Silence for the Rest of Class

"The underside of flesh {where light must soak}: a broken thing / etches —songs score along blood vessel, your throat / cannot sing the occult notes, your lungs in constant / deflate {all these wounds puncture wounds}, fill / unable–the scribe of defining {a heart ...." Excerpts from Felicia Zamora’s poetry manuscript, Silence for the Rest of Class, a finalist for the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize.

Poems by m. forajter

many suffer, and it is acknowledged. this is the micro brought to focus, so you may see every ridiculous pore. this is about one person who is broken, & one person who is unwhole.

Poems by Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer

She bears her horns and becomes / like a bright object, made by art. / And the jewel says: To make / and: A reminder to keep the law, / and she performed a rite / and the jewel said: / Do, make, do, make, / And she: Make do, amuletum, / voices of unknown origin.

Kim Vodicka, Psychic Privates

"The love upon our garden gates / is whereupon gapes gunlight. // The Sussex annex of exploding hearts / in the fort nexus of forever. // They all smile when they say it." Excerpts from Kim Vodicka’s poetry manuscript, Psychic Privates, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.

Genya Turovskaya, The World Is Not The World

"The stars are different here, the stars do not make sense / I can connect these burning dots / There is a hummingbird / There a dancing bear / There a face with night pouring out of the black sockets of its eyes...." Excerpts from Genya Turovskaya’s poetry manuscript, The World Is Not The World, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.

Jacqueline Kari, TWA: A Masque

Picking apart apart the bones of the Child ballad, “The Twa Sisters,” reinterpreting its tale of sororicide and retribution as a a masque that glitters with constellations of love triangles, a katabatic trip to graveland, and the yoked fates of two sisters twinned from their balladic, fairy-tale archetypes. Excerpts from Jacqueline Kari's poetry manuscript, TWA: A Masque, finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.

Megin Jiménez, Lone Stories

"The Unborn knew this: We needed a beauty queen shooting wolves from a plane. We needed a cowboy in the house. We needed blue eyes hatched in cornfield silos. We needed the destruction that can only come from victory. We needed the hyphenated snap of Northamerican efficiency sounding universal in throats galore." Excerpts from Megin Jiménez’s poetry manuscript, Lone Stories, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.

Ally Harris, Her Twin Was After Me

"I came from garbage, the daughter of a prison plumber, daughter of a man whose feet are baptized in shit. I came from garbage. I rose up from a borrowed backyard with a noon glaze and twigs mussing my malformed head." Excerpts from Ally Harris’s poetry manuscript, Her Twin Was After Me, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.

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