Trans-genre / Hybrid Work | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
NURTURING THE MONSTROUS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Trans-genre / Hybrid Work | Tarpaulin Sky Magazine
NURTURING THE MONSTROUS SINCE 2003 | IMAGE: NOAH SATERSTROM
Ni’Ja Whitson, excerpt from “The Unarrival Experiments”
"96 percent of the universe is Black / and unknown / Black And unknown / Math is an architecture of being" -- from Ni'Ja Whitson's The Unarrival Experiments, shortlisted for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards.
Never Angeline Nørth, excerpts from “Sea-Witch”
"Like everything, all of Sea-Witch contains her history. Every part of her has bits of what has come before." — from Never Angeline Nørth 's Sea-Witch, shortlisted for Tarpaulin Sky's 2019 Book Awards.
Mark Baumer & Claire Donato: “Siblings Not Siblings”
"Our ultimate goal was to write a book. What crystallized instead is this email thread, composed less than a month before Mark left for his second cross-country walk...."
Anna Maria Hong, Excerpts from “H & G”
"It was another 30 years before G. felt that very few people wanted to eat her or do her monstrous harm. Most people, she concluded, had enough of a handle on themselves to be indifferent, and only a few were wired to commit murder, cannibalism, child sacrifice...."
Guillermo Filice Castro, Poems and Photographs
"Kiss your lover’s back where dark meets light, I say. // Bésame mucho, please. I’m a sucker for it. // Ok skin—blood—tingle—are you all ready? // Here it comes."
Essay by Anne Gorrick: “Taking Text Outside = Interstitial Acts”
"Let’s think a bit about textual art that is ephemeral, outside, fugitive; text that isn’t carved into a building or a street or a stone or a wall. Let’s note the diminutive textual adventure. The infinitesimal moment. I want to think about earth texts beyond shelter. Going outside brings the death in a little, releases the work into the air. Poem as prayer flag. Poem as act against the immaculate. Text as emphatic and intimate protest."
Jessica K Baer, excerpts from “Midwestern Infinity Doctrine”
"Behind the supercenter, its immortal gloaming a refinery pumps slowmagma against the purple-contour ripped sky. Outloud, colors I cry My God, My God." -- from Jessica K Baer's Midwestern Infinity Doctrine, shortlisted for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards.
Jordan Chesnut, “How Gross, My Seances”
"In 2015, the body of my former partner was found in the wastewater treatment facility of our college town. I wrote this play-in-verse in an attempt to uncover the reason or path of his departure...." Jordan Chesnut's How Gross, My Seances, shortlisted for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards.
Ni’Ja Whitson, excerpt from “The Unarrival Experiments”
"96 percent of the universe is Black / and unknown / Black And unknown / Math is an architecture of being" -- from Ni'Ja Whitson's The Unarrival Experiments, shortlisted for the 2019 Tarpaulin Sky Book Awards.
Never Angeline Nørth, excerpts from “Sea-Witch”
"Like everything, all of Sea-Witch contains her history. Every part of her has bits of what has come before." — from Never Angeline Nørth 's Sea-Witch, shortlisted for Tarpaulin Sky's 2019 Book Awards.