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.

Now Reading Submissions for Tarpaulin Sky Literary Journal (Print Issue #2)

During April 2008 we will read submissions for Tarpaulin Sky's second print issue, which will be published (simultaneously with web-only content as well as web-samples from the print edition) in Fall 2008. The submission period will close April 30, 2008, and we'll make every attempt to reply to all submissions by July 2008.

If you like our journal enough to send us a submission, we hope you'll like it enough to buy it and support the press that publishes it. Consider clicking here and purchasing the Fall/Winter 07 issue of our journal, or any of our lovely books.

Include a brief cover letter with your submission—we appreciate knowing a little about your life, your writing, and where we might read more of your work. Please limit longer work to a single submission of 3000 words or less. Combine shorter work (4-6 poems, shorter prose pieces, etc) into one file; do not send multiple attachments if you can help it.

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