Poetry | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
Poetry | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
PUBLISHING NOTHING BY BILLY COLLINS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Poems by Daniel Carter
Jane sings him a lovely death, an episode- / long aria. Like karaoke in an empty room, Jane’s scenes / have an audience of one, and her operatic seasons / play on lonely, basement VHS: rows of episodes / collected in battered boxes, bloody death scenes / on the front. Desperate, Jane needs these seasons— // as seasons need episodes, and episodes love scenes— / and death scenes make the best episodes and seasons.
Laura Carter: poems from What the Sun Thought
The young ones see the crimes. We see each other fall, climb, men thorn, women thorn, the book is into text now, the way a child (sees) is not (whole), was never once, Larkin’s tragedy, who fucked it up, where is restraint, a baby is burning, whose thorns, were you once a rose, who risen (none)....
Stefania Irene Marthakis: poems from A Filmmaker’s Handbook
When it happens it sounds like English. After it looks like Greek and when I write it down it comes out in certain colors which contain many languages.
Travis Cebula: poems from Sustained
who will wait to sort a singular shard from so many. any. more. and if not found will the black soil stick forever. and will meaning be lost when cleaned from its dream. and will this mass grave be big enough for words.
Ellen Redbird: from Unrequited Symbiosis: a Mitochondrial Mistranslation & Underwater Opera
refulgent firefish — the sun was matchless go down — concern — fluctuates cerulean blast — to contain the whole ocean contains — substance flayed back diaphanous — idea we vowed lifted filter — sedated throb
rob mclennan: two poems
We are not the world, the lofty corners. Intersections, / patterned trees. A patch of no particular form. Elegy, / pine-knots on a page, the day I made precision....
Angela Veronica Wong, Elsa
"If you shove your fingers in her mouth she / might finally shut up. Or at least you / might finally get her off. For me, / there’s a forty-sixty chance that would do. / I’d say for most girls that’s true. Elsa / is on the brink of utter violence." Excerpts from Angela Veronica Wong’s poetry manuscript, Elsa, a finalist for the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize.
Candice Wuehle, BOUND
“Important information has been omitted / only because I cannot recall how it was ever included. // OBSCENE ACTION / Greek / too violent or complicated / for the stage/an invention of a traumatized poet // obscene/ob skene / off screen / un seen // IE: ghosts, / suicides, gas.” Excerpts from Candice Wuehle’s poetry manuscript, BOUND, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.
Drew Kalbach, MQ-1
"I wallow in the shallows / In small language edits I now / Wordsmith my loved ones until their / Horror stories begin to match my own." Excerpts from Drew Kalbach’s poetry manuscript, MQ-1, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.
Catherine Theis, Sophia
“Sleeping. Dream / -ing. Dead. My head / washes ashore. / The female reoccurs.” Excerpts from Catherine Theis’s poetry manuscript, Sophia, a finalist for the 2015 TS Book Prize.