A New Fungus is Amungus

New Zealand's White Fungus Issue 9 is now available in North America (and we have a review copy reserved for you)

White Fungus Issue 9 is the second to be distributed in North America by Disticor. The irreverent New Zealand-based arts mag continues in its tradition of mixing together critical writing on art and new music, alongside poetry, literature, comics and political satire.

The new issue is teeming with new interdisciplinary content, including in-depth interviews with sound artists Annea Lockwood (New York) and Justice Yeldham (Sydney), writing on The Dead C, John Wiese, Manuel Gottsching, and a look into the visual work of Greg Malcolm.

The issue also features new artworks by artists, including Richard Killeen, Hye Rim Lee and Leslie Rice; drawings by Taipei artist Yao Jui-Chung, who revisits traditional Chinese painting while residing in Scotland; and a series of perturbing handwritten suggestions for improvements to the State by Wellington-based conceptual artist Tao Wells.

Literature in the new issue includes poetry by Iain Britton (Auckland), Gu Xie (Guang Zhou) and Anne Cammon (New York), and a history article by Jane Janesly on the indomitable Chew Chong, an early Chinese pioneer to New Zealand who helped kick-start the colony's dairy industry with his fungus-exporting business. Los Angeles writer Juan Santos writes a hard-hitting article on global warming and resource wars in the 21st Century while Wellington artist Tim Bollinger contributes a brand new color comic entitled Noah.

Edited by Ron Hanson.

Smokin' New SPD Blog

SPD now has a blog. You should subscribe to it because

1) it's SPD's blog
2) Clay posts to it
3) it has up-to-the minute "new arrivals" postings
4) it's SPD's blog

Horseless Review #6

Horseless Review #6

Edited by small press pillar Jen Tynes.

Featuring TSky Press author Anne Heide in collaboration with James Belflower and J Michael Martinez, along with new work by by MTC Cronin, Jesse Crockett, Nicholas Grider, Joshua Ware, Mike Sikkema, Jared Stanley, Robyn Art, Mg Roberts, Jason Stumpf, Mark DeCarteret, Clint Frakes, Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Daniel Godston, Jared White, James Capozzi, Laura Carter, Conan Kelly.

Coconut #13

Coconut #13

Edited by the indefatigable Bruce Covey.

Featuring excerpts from Teresa K. Miller's chapbook, Forever No Lo, forthcoming from TSky Press.

Not to mention, hmm, well, Rae Armantrout, David Lehman, Ariana Reines, Kate Colby, Carrie Olivia Adams, James Belflower, Anne Marie Rooney, Kristi Maxwell, Jason Zuzga, Megan Kaminski, Christopher Higgs, Nellie Haack, Claire Donato, Ravi Shankar, Emily Anderson, Laynie Browne, Jonathan Doherty, Kathleen Jesme, Matina Stamatakis, Mike Young, Terence Winch.

Bhanu Kapil's Shiny New Tarpaulin Sky

Tarpaulin Sky Issue #14 Summer 08

Guest edited by Bhanu Kapil

Featuring new texts by Chris Abani, Dodie Bellamy, Lisa Birman, Melissa Buzzeo, Amy Catanzano, Amber DiPietra, Dolores Dorantes, Elena Georgiou, Alan Gilbert, Renee Gladman, Brenda Iijima, Bill Luoma, Laura Mullen, Michelle Naka Pierce, Deborah Richards, Christine Wertheim, and Hazel White

With cover art by Rohini Kapil, vispo by Caroline Bergvall, a cartoon by Isaac Currie, art by Susan McCann, and interview with Michelle Naka Pierce

Hit it and don't quit.

New Reviews at TSky: Prevallet & Saarikoski

Kristin Prevallet's I, Afterlife: Essays in Mourning Time
Reviewed by Megan Burns

"A stunning precision in language cracks open the elegy exposing both its limitations and its necessity. . . . The effect is startling and troubling; Prevallet’s language tears into the body and then seeks to keep the wound from healing." [READ MORE]

The Edge of Europe: A Kinetic Image
Pentti Saarikoski, translated by Anselm Hollo
Reviewed by Summer Block

"There are few things Saarikoski is not willing to say, personal or political. . . . Everything unsaid here is heartbreaking." [READ MORE]

Open Reading Period: Chapbook Manuscripts

Note: the following guidelines are for submissions of chapbook manuscripts only--we will read full-length manuscripts in October 2008 (details forthcoming).

Tarpaulin Sky Press will be reading chapbook manuscripts submitted during the month of August. Manuscripts should be postmarked between August 1 and August 31, 2008. There is no need to query first; simply mail the manuscript according to the directions below.

Writers who have not been published in our literary journal should include a $10 reading fee in the form of a check or a money order made payable to Tarpaulin Sky Press. Past contributors to Tarpaulin Sky may submit their manuscript with a $5 reading fee.

Manuscripts should be in the vicinity of 18-28 pages (give or take a couple). Send one copy of your manuscript along with two copies of the title page (note: the reading process is not"blind"--we ask for two title pages only so that we may keep one with the manuscript, and the other for reference/notes, etc). Be sure that your title pages include your name, address, telephone number, and email address. Cover letters are read with interest. We like to know who your are, what you're up to, and where we can read more of your work. We do accept simultaneous submissions but ask that you let us know immediately if your manuscript is accepted elsewhere. Individual pieces from the manuscript may have been previously published in magazines and anthologies, but the collection as a whole must be unpublished. Manuscripts will not be returned. Please do not send us your only copy.

Mail your submission to

Tarpaulin Sky Press
PO Box 189
Grafton, VT 05146

For notification of decisions, include a business-size SASE. If you would like to receive acknowledgment of the receipt of your manuscript, please include a stamped, self-addressed postcard. Notification of decisions will be made in November 2008. Publication of accepted manuscripts will be in 2009.

If you are not familiar with our press and the type of chapbooks (and full-length books) that we publish, we encourage you to explore our work before submitting, by clicking here and purchasing one of our titles.

Summer Denver Quarterly Gets Us Hot

Denver Quarterly
Vol. 42, No. 4

Featuring Joe Brainard cover art as well as new work by TSky editor Christian Peet, TSky Press author Brandon Shimoda, and a host of rockstars: Erik Anderson, Stephanie Anderson, Anne Blonstein, Julie Phillips Brown, Suzanne Buffam, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Kim Chinquee, Patrick F. Durgin, Kim Evans, Paul Fattaruso, Georges Godeau, Laura Goode, Nathan Hauke, Claire Hero, Garrett Kalleburg, Aby Kaupang, Katalin Keller, Scott McWaters, Eileen Myles, Ron Padgett, Emily Rae, Srikanth Reddy, Forrest Roth, Stephen Sandy, Roy Scranton, Andrew Seguin, D.E. Steward, Michelle Taransky, and Karen Volkman.

Edited by Bin Ramke, Sara Veglahn, Andrea Rexilius, and Erik Anderson.

Submissions update

Submission guidelines

Last updated: 04 August 2008

Submissions to the press

We are reading chapbook manuscripts throughout August 2008. Please click here for details.

We will read full-length manuscripts in October 2008. Details are forthcoming. In the meantime, you might let us get to know you by clicking here and purchasing some of our lovely books.

Submissions to the journal

We are in the process of reading and responding to submissions to the Fall 08 Print Issue and hope to send out all notifications by the end of August.

We are currently open to submissions of reviews only (see below); we are not currently accepting poetry, prose, or "other."

Until we read submissions again (Spring 09), you might let us get to know you by clicking here and purchasing the Fall/Winter 07 issue of our journal or any one of our lovely books.

Submissions of reviews

We read review submissions all year long. Reviewers whose reviews are accepted for publication on tarpaulinsky.com receive any two Tarpaulin Sky Press trade paperbacks of their choice. Send a brief cover letter and your previously unpublished review to
reviews[AT]tarpaulinsky[DOT]com

Publishers may send review copies to
Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146

Review copies currently available:

All titles below are available for review, except for titles marked with asterisks, which are hand-bound books and thus are limited, if still available at all.

Kristin Abraham's Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008)

Robyn Art's The Stunt Double in Winter (Dusie, 2008)

Andrea Baker's True Poems About the River Go Like This (Cannibal Books, 2008)

duncan b. barlow's Super Cell Anemia (Afterbirth Books, 2007)

Ellen Baxt's Analfabeto / An Alphabet (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg's A Book of Days, Pt.1: Sorcery (Dusie, 2007)

Dan Boehl's Work (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

Susan Briante’s Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

William Cirocco's aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)

Jan Clausen’s From a Glass House (IKON, 2007)

Juliet Cook's Girl Gang (Blood Pudding Press, 2007)*

Juliet Cook's The Laura Poems (Blood Pudding Press, 2006)*

Matthew Cooperman's Daze (Salt, 2006)

Oisin Curran's Mopus (Counterpath Press, 2006)

Catherine Daly's Chanteuse / Cantatrice (Factory School, 2007)

Spencer Dew's Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2007)

Mark DuCharme's The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Hillary Gravendyk's The Naturalist (Achiote Press, 2008)

Carla Harryman's Open Box (Belladonna Books, 2007)

Kim Hyesoon's Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Don Mee Choi, trans., Action Books, 2008)

Christopher Janke’s Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain (Fence Books, 2007)

Michael Kelleher’s Human Scale (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Paige Ackerson Kiely’s In No One's Land (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Rauan Klassnik's Holy Land (Black Ocean Press, 2008)

Pat Lawrence's Journals from the Time of the Radar Dog (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Robert Levin's When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot (The Drill Press, 2008)

Reb Livingston's Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007)

D.S. Marriott's Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Joseph Massey's Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008)*

Ben Mazer's The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books, 2008)*

Clay Matthews' Superfecta (Ghost Road Press, 2008)

Kristi Maxwell's Realm Sixty-Four (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Karyna McGlynn's Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008)

Thorpe Moeckel's Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008)

Peter Money's Che. (galley, Travel Vox, 2007)

David Mutschlecner’s Sign (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Sawako Nakayasu's nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement//(she (Quale Press, 2006)

Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2007)

Robert Nichols's Address to the Smaller Animals (reissue, Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

Kaya Oakes’ Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

David Oliveira's A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

G.E. Patterson's To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Adam Peterson's My Untimely Death (Subito Press, 2008)

Chris Pusateri's Anon (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Barbara Jane Reyes's Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008)

Selah Saterstrom’s The Meat & Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007)

Kate Schapira's Case Fbdy. (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2008)

Spencer Selby’s Twist of Address (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Young Smith's In A City You Will Never Visit (Black Zinnias, 2007)

Juliana Spahr's The Transformation (Atelos, 2007)

Sampson Starkweather's The Photograph (Horse Less Press, 2007)

Chad Sweeney's An Architecture (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Susan Tichy’s Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Mark Tursi's The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Mark Tursi's Shiftless Days (Noemi Press, 2007)

Angela Woodward's The Human Mind (Ravenna Press, 2007)

Theodore Worozbyt's Letters of Transit (UMass Press, 2008)

Journals Available for Review:

Bird Dog #9

Cab/Net #2

Cannot Exist Issue 2

Canvas #2 (Australia)

Copper Nickel #9

Ectoplasmic Necropolis

Equilibrium #7

Fence Volume 11, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008)

Flint Hills Review #12, 2007

Handsome # 1

The Hat #7

Interim, Vol.26, No.1&2

Model Homes #1

Ocho #17

Oranges & Sardines, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2008

Parthenon West Review #5

Practice: New Writing + Art #2

President's Choice #1

Small Town Issue XII

Versal Issue 6, 2008

White Fungus #7 (Australia)

White Fungus #8 (Australia)

New from Palm Press

Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space
Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand
128 pages, trade paperback
Palm Press, 2008
ISBN 9780978926243
$15.00

"Imagine — and witness — public space that is produced by us. In Landscapes of Dissent, Sand and Boykoff remind us that there is a long history and ripe presence of intersections between poetry and politics. Don Mitchell is quoted in these pages as saying that public space is “decisive.” In an age in which alienation is among our most prevalent health hazards, Landscapes of Dissent demonstrates that poetry may be newly, again, good for you. This book is a gift. Take the power." —Carol Mirakove

"Landscapes of Dissent is a prolegomenon toward a new topoiesis--the creation of a new topos, a new place. This book brings forth not only the discussion of several practices of disensual use of consensual ("public") space, but also gives away ideas & insights about what takes place thanks to a poetry that makes space in a polis made diapolis. Reading this book I found myself feeling an unknown political emotion that prompts my passive reader to become a reader ready to engage (again) the streets--energized by this discussion in which writing is hope & hope is action. Make it public!" —Heriberto Yepez

"This timely book pushes poetry more firmly into public space at a vibrant historical moment when both the public potential of poetry & the possibilities of public space are being refigured. In Landscapes of Dissent, Boykoff and Sand engage a crucial shift in the relationship of poetry & public space: they do not merely insert poetry into an existing public sphere imagined as a platform, but rather that show us how both poetry & public space take on alternative forms of publicness. These acts of publicness join other creative reclamations to assert politics in a space the neoliberalism frames as seamless & accessible—& therefore post-political. Landscapes of Dissent is expansive & sharp—an important book of political-aesthetic scholarship." —Jeff Derksen

New from Cannibal Books

This Ocean, or Oppen Series
by Joseph Bradshaw

Poetry chapbook, 40 pages, hand-sewn
Cannibal Books, June 2008
$6

Read poems from This Ocean, or Oppen Series in Tarpaulin Sky #13

Available for pre-order: Mark Cunningham's _Body Language_

Mark Cunningham
Body Language

ISBN: 9780977901975
Prose Poetry. 5"x7", 136 pages
Perfectbound, tête-bêche

- Pre-order here & save $2 ($12 includes shipping anywhere in the US (ships November 2008))

Two full-length collections of prose poems contained in Body Language, one titled Body (on parts of the body) and one titled Primer (on numbers and letters), together form a diptych investigating the body in language and language in the body.

Advance Praise for Body Language

In Mark Cunningham’s asymptotic collection, two discreet texts, Body and Primer, form a provocative, loopic continuum in which prose poems “defining” body parts (The Spleen, The Pituitary Gland, The Pimple, The Thumb) mesh with an abecedarium/cipher concerning topics as various as fate, reality, and phenomenology. With its trope of clue-like instruction and unique, flip-book embodiment, Cunningham‘s book creates a kind of hybrid detective f(r)iction, an intrepid mash-up of high and low cultures in which the reader is as likely to encounter Rilke and Proto-Sinaitic inscription as Lacan, Film Noir, The Three Stooges, cell phones, higher mathematics, binary thought, and Coyote and Road Runner cartoons. Cunningham pitches with surprising clarity the most abstract meditations (“The sperm cell is the first zero. The vagina the second. Wait—before you floated in the placenta (the third), your mother floated and your father floated in theirs, and before them their others and their fathers . . . . You get dizzy, as in that moment in Citizen Kane when Kane pauses after leaving his wife’s bedroom and image after image recedes in mirror reflecting mirror. Another thing about DNA: if space curves, so does time,” for example, from “O as a Beginning”), offering in almost reportorial style a (d)evolutionary mix of anachronistic, equally relentless somatic and figurative explorations of the body (“a paradise of sorts”) and the mind. Northrop Frye called a riddle “essentially a charm in reverse . . . the revolt of the intelligence against the hypnotic power of commanding words.” Cunningham’s work moves in this direction; as Frye would put it, “Poem and object are very quizzically related: there seems to be some riddle behind all riddles which we have not yet guessed.” These poems are not the mere game-playing of an extraordinarily gifted and restless intellect; stalked by pain, fear, guilt, and the burden of awareness,, they can also be tender, betraying a capacity for happiness: “I rarely talk about myself, but I’ll tell you this: one of the best days I’ve had was when I passed a cinema and decided right then to see The Cameraman. Another time, I switched restaurants at the last minute, and met an acquaintance there, and ate with her, and three years later we’re still going out.” As obsessed as they are with the ironies and processes of mind and body, the poet’s concern is ever with the mysteries this human armature holds up: “life itself.”

—Lisa Russ Spaar, author of Satin Cash and Blue Venus, and editor of Acquainted with the Night and All That Mighty Heart: London Poems.

About Mark Cunningham

Mark Cunningham lives in central Missouri. He is the author of 80 Beetles (Otoliths, 2008) and two chapbooks from Right Hand Pointing, Second Story and the forthcoming nightlightnight.

Excerpts from Body Language

* from Primer, "G"
* from Primer, "O as a Beginning," "A," "M," and "X"

Recently received

All titles below are also are available as review copies, except for titles marked with asterisks, which are hand-bound books and thus are limited, if still available at all.

Kristin Abraham's Little Red Riding Hood Missed the Bus (Subito Press, 2008)

Robyn Art's The Stunt Double in Winter (Dusie, 2008)

Andrea Baker's True Poems About the River Go Like This (Cannibal Books, 2008)*

Cannot Exist Issue 2*

Juliet Cook's Girl Gang (Blood Pudding Press, 2007)*

Juliet Cook's The Laura Poems (Blood Pudding Press, 2006)*

Mark DuCharme's The Sensory Cabinet (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Ectoplasmic Necropolis (Blood Pudding Press, 2008)*

Fence Volume 11, Number 1, Spring/Summer 2008)

Pat Lawrence's Journals from the Time of the Radar Dog (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Robert Levin's When Pacino's Hot, I'm Hot (The Drill Press, 2008)

Joseph Massey's Out of Light (Kitchen Press, 2008)*

Ben Mazer's The Foundations of Poetry Mathematics (Cannibal Books, 2008)*

Karyna McGlynn's Alabama Steve (Destructible Heart Press, 2008)

Oranges & Sardines, Volume 1, Issue 1, Summer 2008

Adam Peterson's My Untimely Death (Subito Press, 2008)

Barbara Jane Reyes's Easter Sunday (Ypolita Press, 2008)*

Kate Schapira's Case Fbdy. (Rope-a-Dope Press, 2008)*

Small Town Issue XII*

Versal Issue 6, 2008

Theodore Worozbyt's Letters of Transit (UMass Press, 2008)

New Reviews at TSky: Magi & Pafunda

Jill Magi's Threads
Reviewed by Kristin Palm

"Composed of both text and images, Threads is a deeply personal, yet commonly meaningful, navigation of history, languages, cultures and generations." [READ MORE]


Danielle Pafunda's My Zorba
Reviewed by John Findura

"Danielle Pafunda’s second book of poems is like watching an old nickelodeon or pressing your eye to the hole in a fence while the lights are flicked on and off quickly; there is rotation, and the movement often leaves you forced to fill in the minutest gaps, coloring the book with the reader’s own ideas." [READ MORE]

New Reviews at TSky: Bozicevic, Coultas, Huenún, and Staples

Ana Bozicevic’s Document
Reviewed by Chris Tonelli

"To evoke such complete empathy in the reader takes poetry of they highest order, and Bozicevic’s is undoubtedly that. . . . Though only thirteen poems long, Document accomplishes what most full-length books only set out to." [READ MORE]

Brenda Coultas's The Marvelous Bones of Time
Reviewed by Becca Klaver

"Coultas’ variation on “the personal is political” is “the local is national,” and she is a poet brave enough to look at—sit with, walk around in—our country’s dumpsters and cemeteries, a.k.a. our guts and our remains, our scariest local sites. . . . You could probably get away with calling Brenda Coultas many things, but one who heeds dirty, discarded, or dead things this intently is most often simply called a poet." [READ MORE]

Jaime Luis Huenún's Port Trakl
Translated by Daniel Borzutzky
Reviewed by Angela Woodward

"In Port Trakl, first world oppression of the third world, displacement of the indigenous, loss of culture, destruction of the environment, envy of the imperialist victor, float out of these poems like a shimmer of spilled oil or whiff of rot, barely there, but weighting our perception of these slight verses. It is a wonderful book, and Borzutzky and Action Books have done us a favor by bringing it into English." [READ MORE]

Heidi Lynn Staples's Dog Girl
Reviewed by Karen Dietrich

This is poetry in limbo, in a constant state of torque, wherein what matters is both content and form, both message and mode of delivery. Limber lines offer glimpses inside delicate juxtapositions of pain, displacement, and delight. While the poet’s head may be in the clouds, exploring a stratosphere of language, her feet are firmly planted in purpose, eyes focused intently upon human experience." [READ MORE]

New from TSky Press: G.C. Waldrep's _One Way No Exit_

One Way No Exit
G.C. Waldrep

Poetry
8.5" x 5.5", 56 pages, side-bolted
150 numbered copies
May, 2008

- click here for more info or to purchase

“There are only two human figures in all of America,” G.C. Waldrep declares in One Way No Exit, “and I have already seen them. Everything else is socks and recognizance, flutter and mood.” Waldrep builds on photographer Peter Rathmann's portraits of the American landscape to create a lyric inquiry into the nature of patriotism, spirituality, photography, 20th-century American visual art, and what he terms “the surprisingly unmapped avoidances of America's small towns.” Moving quickly between snapshot takes of the South and West and the works of Mark Rothko, David Hockney, Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and many others, Waldrep attempts to make of his poem a bubble-like iridescence, “a skin on which objects rest.” “This is in the nature of the medium,” Waldrep concludes, “God visited upon objects. A photograph, like David Hockney, is a poem that looks good when it doesn't have to.”

About the Author

G.C. Waldrep’s collections of poems are Goldbeater’s Skin (Colorado Prize, 2003), Disclamor (BOA Editions, 2007), and a chapbook, The Batteries (New Michigan Press, 2005). He lives in Lewisburg, Pa., and teaches at Bucknell University.

New from TSky Press: Paul McCormick's _The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter_

The Exotic Moods of Les Baxter
Paul McCormick

Poetry
7.5" x 7.5", 40 pages, saddle-sewn
150 numbered copies
May, 2008

- click here for more info or to purchase

“Most places exist only when you think about them,” asserts the opening line of Paul McCormick’s new chapbook. It contains three sequences, each of them thinking a certain place—a certain mood, a certain vantage of the subjective self—into being. In “Fish Tales,” McCormick richly re-imagines the Long Island of his childhood, divesting nostalgia of sentiment in favor of something stranger, brief moments when bright fish surface. In “Alternate Takes,” McCormick makes small prose towns out of familiar and unfamiliar objects: “The Turk,” “The President,” “The Automobile,” “The Shoe.” And in the title sequence, McCormick honors the 20th-century American composer Les Baxter, fashioning a richly lyrical discourse about the colonized and -izing self from the eclectic exotica of Baxter’s aural imagination. As McCormick writes in “Mombassa at Midnight,” “The crook of one’s arm is the crook of all arms. / You are bitten in your dream but smile for the dance. / The circle continues til dawn.” These are challenging, luminous poems, thought sublimated into a language and landscape of the deeply-imagined self. These poems glow in the dark.

About the Author

Paul McCormick’s poems have appeared in American Letters and Commentary, The Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, Verse, Conjunctions, Barrow Street, Conduit, The Bitter Oleander, Diagram, Tarpaulin Sky, Typo, Octopus and elsewhere. He lives in Huntington, New York and works as a taxonomy and assessment specialist for the New York City Department of Education.

Trickhouse, Vol.1

Brought to you by Noah Saterstrom, Trickhouse is an on-line curatorial project featuring visual art, writing, guest curating, video, sound, interviews, artist projects and other experiments.

Volume 1:

Visual Art by Lara Rivera

Writing from Sara Veghlan, Christian Peet & Peter Markus

Ways to Melt Snow, (images & text) from Leisure Projects

Sound by Chris Funkhouser

Introduction to Downtown Tucson, from Julianna Spallholz

Interview with Martin Riker of Flood Editions

Texts and images by Elizabeth Rollins & Ben Johnson

Video work by Solan Jensen

Kevin Sampsell's Creamy Bullets

Creamy Bullets
Kevin Sampsell
Chiasmus Press, 2008
Short Fiction, 268 pages

Tarpaulin Sky Press thinks Kevin Sampsell is a great human being. He's also a great writer, as many are willing to attest:

"I am a huge Kevin Sampsell fan. He's a gifted storyteller and canny observer of the world who writes with enormous sensitivity, innovation, and humor. These stories have the same powerful effect on me as all of my favorite art — they make me feel things deeply." -Davy Rothbart, FOUND Magazine and This American Life

"With Creamy Bullets, Kevin Sampsell has created a weirdly sexual but wholly believable universe in just the briefest of words. Each story is a savory gem, capturing the gripping little deviant moments in life. " -Jami Attenberg, author of The Kept Man

"Kevin Sampsell writes with great energy and grace about the hurt, the semi-hurt, the sordid and the downright deranged. Creamy Bullets is full of wonders, and all the best kinds of tenderness and danger." -Sam Lipsyte, author of Home Land

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Kevin Sampsell's fiction has been widely published in literary journals (Quick Fiction, LIT, Hobart, Opium) and on popular websites (like McSweeney's, Nerve, Failbetter, Pindeldyboz, and Night Train). Additionally, his essays and reviews have appeared in several newspapers and magazines. His books include A Common Pornography, Beautiful Blemish and The Insomniac Reader (as editor). He lives in Portland, Oregon and is publisher of Future Tense Books.

Call for Reviews

Reviewers whose reviews are accepted for publication on tarpaulinsky.com receive any two Tarpaulin Sky Press trade paperbacks of their choice; reviewers who already have all our books get added to the review copy list for future titles.

Please send a brief cover letter and your previously unpublished review to reviews[at]tarpaulinsky[dot]com

Publishers (or authors), please send review copies to Tarpaulin Sky Press, PO Box 189, Grafton, VT 05146

Review copies currently available:

duncan b. barlow's Super Cell Anemia (Afterbirth Books, 2007)

Ellen Baxt's Analfabeto / An Alphabet (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Hugh and Mary Behm-Steinberg's A Book of Days, Pt.1: Sorcery (Dusie, 2007)

Dan Boehl's Work (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

Susan Briante’s Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

William Cirocco's aerolith (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)

Jan Clausen’s From a Glass House (IKON, 2007)

Matthew Cooperman's Daze (Salt, 2006)

Oisin Curran's Mopus (Counterpath Press, 2006)

Catherine Daly's Chanteuse / Cantatrice (Factory School, 2007)

Spencer Dew's Songs of Insurgency (Vagabond Press, 2007)

Hillary Gravendyk's The Naturalist (Achiote Press, 2008)

Carla Harryman's Open Box (Belladonna Books, 2007)

Kim Hyesoon's Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers (Don Mee Choi, trans., Action Books, 2008)

Christopher Janke’s Structure of the Embryonic Rat Brain (Fence Books, 2007)

Michael Kelleher’s Human Scale (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Paige Ackerson Kiely’s In No One's Land (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Rauan Klassnik's Holy Land (Black Ocean Press, 2008)

Reb Livingston's Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books, 2007)

D.S. Marriott's Hoodoo Voodoo (Shearsman Books, 2008)

Clay Matthews' Superfecta (Ghost Road Press, 2008)

Kristi Maxwell's Realm Sixty-Four (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Thorpe Moeckel's Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008)

Peter Money's Che. (galley, Travel Vox, 2007)

David Mutschlecner’s Sign (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Sawako Nakayasu's nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement//(she (Quale Press, 2006)

Maggie Nelson's Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn, 2007)

Robert Nichols's Address to the Smaller Animals (reissue, Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

Kaya Oakes’ Telegraph (Pavement Saw Press, 2007)

David Oliveira's A Little Travel Story (Harbor Mountain Press, 2008)

G.E. Patterson's To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008)

Chris Pusateri's Anon (BlazeVox Books, 2008)

Selah Saterstrom’s The Meat & Spirit Plan (Coffee House Press, 2007)

Spencer Selby’s Twist of Address (Shearsman Books, 2007)

Young Smith's In A City You Will Never Visit (Black Zinnias, 2007)

Juliana Spahr's The Transformation (Atelos, 2007)

Sampson Starkweather's The Photograph (Horse Less Press, 2007)

Chad Sweeney's An Architecture (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Susan Tichy’s Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press, 2007)

Mark Tursi's The Impossible Picnic (BlazeVox Books, 2007)

Mark Tursi's Shiftless Days (Noemi Press, 2007)

Angela Woodward's The Human Mind (Ravenna Press, 2007)

Journals Available for Review:

Bird Dog #9

Cab/Net #2

Canvas #2 (Australia)

Copper Nickel #9

Equilibrium #7

Flint Hills Review #12, 2007

Handsome # 1

The Hat #7

Interim, Vol.26, No.1&2

Model Homes #1

Ocho #17

Parthenon West Review #5

Practice: New Writing + Art #2

President's Choice #1

White Fungus #7 (Australia)

White Fungus #8 (Australia)

Joan Larkin wins Audre Lorde Award

Congratulations to one of our heroes, Joan Larkin, author of My Body: New and Selected Poems, (Hanging Loose Press, 2007), who won the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 Triangle Awards on April 28.

New Reviews at TSky: Boully, Wallace, and Forklift, OH #18

Forklift, Ohio #18
by Cara Benson

Rare is the journal that works as a true collection of corresponding and communicating poems, each piece leading into the next. Even rarer is the one with kitchen tips. Simultaneously cheeky, vulnerable, funny, ominous, and lyrically toying with what is or is not “accessible,” Forklift, Ohio makes me love poetry again. It even comes with postcards. [ READ MORE ]

Jenny Boully's The Book of Beginnings and Endings
Two Reviews: Kristina Marie Darling & Jac Jemc

Boully skillfully manipulates her audience’s expectations of form and genre, opening in medias res and closing as further questions surface in the minds of her readers. Filled with works of prose that masquerade as novels, biographies, notebooks, and literary criticism, The Book of Beginnings and Endings takes on a range of voices, with lyricism and originality throughout. [ READ MORE ]

Mark Wallace's Walking Dreams
by Cynthia Reeser

Wallace doesn’t just tell an interesting story––he tells it in an interesting way, finding new and unexpected methods of presenting the tales. His characters are often pensive creatures who risk being drowned out by the city, which is always “full and alive,” and where “loneliness is only an impression carved out of the hard wood of a world in motion.” [ READ MORE ]

Bomb Magazine Spring 2008

The 103rd issue of Bomb Magazine contains a beautifully designed chapbook insert--"First Proof"--featuring poems by TSky editor Elena Georgiou, along with new work by Nick Flynn, Paul Maliszewski, Peter Orner, Hannah Pittard, Bradford Gray Telford, Linda Bamber, and Patrick McGrath.

Alice Blue #8

The eighth issue of Alice Blue features new work by TSky editor Christian Peet, as well as poetry and prose by Ken Rumble, Corey Mesler, Merida Gorman, Robert Jacoby, Mike Young, Matthew Savoca, Trey Moody, Erica Lewis, John Findura, Andrea Kneeland, Serena Rose Chopra, and Donald Dunbar.

Edited by Sarah Burgess, Amber Nelson, and Madison Glass.

Announcing 2008 TSky Press Subscriptions

We are pleased to offer subscription options for Tarpaulin Sky Press 2008 titles.

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Save $25 by ordering TSky Press' 2008 lineup. 10 publications include 3 trade paperback books (Mark Cunningham, Anne Heide, Gordon Massman) 6 chapbooks (Adrian Lurssen, Paul McCormick, Teresa K. Miller, Jeanne Morel, Brandon Shimoda, G.C. Waldrep) and Tarpaulin Sky Issue 15/Print Issue #2. Subscribe now, save $25, and be surprised throughout the year—we'll ship each book as it becomes available.

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Save $10 by ordering TSky Press' 2008 trade paperback editions and the Fall 2008 print issue of Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal. 4 publications include 3 trade paperback books (Mark Cunningham, Anne Heide, Gordon Massman) and Tarpaulin Sky Issue 15/Print Issue #2. Subscribe now, save $10, and be surprised in the Fall—we'll ship the books and the journal as soon as they are available.

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