Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson read from Figures for a Darkroom Voice

In October, 2007 TSky Press will publish Figures for a Darkroom Voice, a Noah Eli Gordon and Joshua Marie Wilkinson collaboration.

Until then, you can watch this YouTube video of the fellas read an excerpt for The Continental Review, a new video journal of contemporary poetry and poetics. (Dig those sound effects!)

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The Man Suit
by Zachary Schomburg

Black Ocean Press
Paperback / 112p. / Poetry / $12.95
ISBN 978-0-9777709-3-9

The Man Suit, a darkly comic debut from TSky compadre Zachary Schomburg, assembles a macabre cast of doppelgangers, talking animals and dead presidents in poems that explore concepts of identity, truth and fate. The resulting body of work walks a dynamic line—often reading like anecdotal fables or cautionary tales in the form of prose poems. Through it all, Schomburg balances irony with sincerity; wit with candor; and a playful tone with the knowledge of inevitable sorrow.

For some years now, Zach has been bringing us great stuff from loads of other writers--now return the favor and go buy his book.

Cannibal #2

The second issue of Cannibal is now available and features poems from TSky author Joshua Marie Wilkinson and contributors Eugene Ostashevsky, Kristi Maxwell, and Amy King, along with Hadara Bar-Nadav, Jen Bervin, Julia Cohen, John Coletti, Christopher Eaton, Landis Everson, Karen Garthe, Daniela Gesundheit, Johannes Göransson, Kate Greenstreet, Jane Gregory, Shafer Hall, Janet Holmes, Dan Hoy, Donna Kuhn, Mark Lamoureux, Farid Matuk, Ben Mazer, Jess Mynes, Sawako Nakayasu, Arlo Quint, Chris Salerno, Mary Ann Samyn, Frank Sherlock, Stacy Szymaszek, Maureen Thorson, Jake Adam York & Alex Young.

Cannibal is $12, seventy pages, hand-sewn in signatures and screen printed.

Word For/Word #11

Word For/Word #11 includes new work by TSky authors Noah Eli Gordon & Joshua Marie Wilkinson, as well as TSky contributor Kristi Maxwell—along with Eric Abbott, Jason Fraley, Kate Schapira, Marcia Arrieta, Vernon Frazer, Will Skinker, Peter Ciccariello, Trina Gaynon, Matina L. Stamatakis, John M. Bennett, Jim Goar, Adam Strauss, Erin M. Bertram, Lynn Strongin, David-Baptiste Chirot, Scott Helmes & Sheila E. Murphy, Thomas Lowe Taylor, John Cotter, Genevieve Kaplan, Andrew Topel, Justin Dodd, Ashley VanDoorn, Stephanie Countiss Emens, Marci Nelligan, Caroline Whitbeck, Noah Falck, Michael Rothenberg, Brian Whitener.

Edited by Jonathan Minton.

Diagram 7.1

Diagram 7.1 includes new texts by TSky Press author Sandy Florian, journal contributor Shira Dentz, and a host of other fine writers, including Hanna Andrews, John Bradley, Nickole Brown, Kate Hill Cantrill, Jennifer Chapis, Jessica Goodfellow, Scott Hartwich, Michael Johnson, Stephanie Lenox, B. J. Love, Carl Peterson, Lee Felice Pinkas, Kate Schapira, Ash Smith, and Michael Walsh.

New from Calamari Press

Part of the World, by Robert Lopez

182 pages / ISBN 0-9770723-8-X

Part of the World is a fugue in both a musical and psychological sense. It is a canonical juggernaut of lyrical language--ever dissolving, devolving, shifting, then reconstituting itself into a new knowledge of reality. This language comes straight from a compulsive mind in a Quixotic state--ceaselessly harping on the everyday perturbations and peculiarities of our humdrum lives--our cars, apartments, health, finances. But if you relax your focus as if staring at some sort of holographic fractal, with each part containing the whole, the superficial meaning is purged, layer by layer, peeling back and revealing the subtext of what the mind is capable of under the burden of trauma and accountability.

Dusie #5

Featuring TSky author Mark Cunningham and contributors Dan Chelotti, Barbara Maloutas, Peter Jay Shippy, and Steve Timm, along side Dawn Pendergast, John Hyland, Alana Madison, Kristin Palm, C. S. Carrier, Anne Heide, Andrew Demcak, Carrie Hunter, Adam Fieled, Logan Ryan Smith, Bronwen Tate, Bill Allegrezza, Simone Muench, Kerri Sonnenberg, Eileen Tabios, Jared Hayes, Edward Smallfield, Kristy Bowen, Anne Boyer, Raymond Farr, Marcia Arrieta, Elisa Gabbert, Kathleen Rooney, Shanna Compton, Mike Hauser, Rachel Abramowitz, Jessica Bozek, John Deming, Kate Greenstreet, Rob McLennan, Samar Abulhassan & Elise Ficarra, Lance Newman, Anna Preston, Daniel Borzutzky, Cathy Eisenhower, Nicholas Manning, Lonna Whiting, James Grinwis, Jordan Stempleman, O. Hunt, Joseph Cooper, Melanie Hubbard, Jennifer Sarah Frota, Michael Farrell, Eve Rifkah, Vernon Frazer, Bob Maracacci, Katheryn L. Pringle, Duane Locke, Matina Stamatakis, John Bradley, Brandon Shimoda, Michelle Detorie, Stephen Ratcliffe, Will Gallien, Johannes Göransson, Lisa Janssen, Jen Scappettone, and Tim Botta.

Coconut 7

Coconut Seven, just as flaky as ever, is now live on the web!

Check out exciting new poems by TSky Press author Chad Sweeney, as well as Lisa Jarnot, Keith Waldrop, Brigitte Byrd, Natasha Trethewey, Christine Hume, Brian Henry, Cynthia Arrieu-King, Loretta Clodfelter, Jennifer L Knox, Marie Buck, Laurie Soslow, Eva Jane Peck, Will Gallien, Rodney Koeneke, Laine Cathryn, Jennifer Bartlett, Thomas Fink, Tao Lin, Shane Allison, Del Ray Cross, Anne Gorrick, and Lauren Levin.

New from Calamari Press

The Revisionist, by Miranda Mellis

With illustrations by Derek White.
82 pages / ISBN 0-9770723-7-1

The title character of Miranda Mellis' The Revisionist conducts covert surveillance on a Saunders-esque city whose inhabitants are subject to uncanny transformations as a result of catastrophic weather, political corruption, invasive technologies and environmental degradation. Hired to spin, or 'revise,' the facts, the revisionist's perceptions in turn become detached and distorted--inevitably unreliable yet all the same, revealing. This civil scientist of a narrator sardonically observes a distressed landscape inhabited by mutant children, a seeing-eye dog, a centenarian with iguanas and constellations beneath her dress, brooding frigate birds, insurance love clones, a terrorist curator, a private investigator, and a little girl who's discovered the world's largest conch.

Typo 9

The new issue includes poems by Rachel Abramowitz, Andrea Baker, Erin M. Bertram, Zach Barocas, Danial Borzutzky, Lily Brown, Laura Carter, Julia Cohen, Simon Dedeo, Jim Goar, David Goldstein, Carolyn Guinzio, Kenneth E. Harrison Jr., Rebecca Loudon, Keith Newton, Daniel Plate, Emma Ramey, Kate Schapira, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Abraham Smith, Theresa Sotto, Ann Stephenson, Bronwen Tate, Allison Titus, Chris Tonelli, Jen Tynes. Edited by Adam Clay and Matt Henriksen.

[one love affair]* nominated for five awards
from Coldfront

Coldfront Editors Graeme Bezanson, John Deming, and Melinda Wilson have nominated nominated Jenny Boully's [one love affair]* for five Coldfront Awards: Best New Book of the Year; Best Second Book; Best Book-Length Poem; Best First Lines; Best Technical Innovation.

Including new poetry by TSky author Sandy Florian, TSky contributor Robyn Art, and Peter Henry, Dara Wier, Joshua Harmon, Donald Revell, Christopher Kennedy, Sean Dougherty, Elizabeth Powell, Kathleen Winter, Timothy Liu, Steve Langan, Noelle Kocot, Joe Fletcher, and Dawn-Michelle Baude.

Check it out, HERE.

President's Choice #1

Perfect-bound, foil-stamped. 7 authors with approximately 6-10 pages of work each. Featuring upcoming TSky guest-editor Bhanu Kapil along with Marie Buck, Rodrigo Toscano, Craig Dworkin, Laura Elrick, Paper Rad, and Robert Fitterman

$8 plus shipping

Bird Dog 8

The eighth issue is out, featuring TSky authors Sandy Florian and Chad Sweeney, as well as TSky contributors Barbara Maloutas and Kristi Maxwell, not to mention work from Abraham Smith, Bruce Covey, Catherine Theis, Curtis Bonney, Deborah Wardlaw Pattillo, Elizabeth Treadwell, Jennifer Karmin, Joshua Beckman, Julie Choffel, Kevin Magee, Nico Vassilakis, Nicole Burgund, Raymond Farr, Roberta Olson, Sheila E. Murphy & Michelle Greenblatt, Shonni Enelow, Tomaz Salamun, Tyrone Williams, and art from Chad Horn. Cover design by Kate Greenstreet.

The 8th issue of E.ratio is now online

New work by TSky author Chad Sweeney and David Chikhladze, MTC Cronin, Anne Gorrick, Christine Hamm, Amanda Laughtland, Nicholas Manning, Jonathan Minton, Marci Nelligan, Jody Porter, Donald Wellman, and Scott Wilkerson.

Edited by Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino.

Foursquare 1.6

November's issue (1.6) includes work from TSky contributor Jane Sprague along with Tina Darragh, Jess Rowan, and Foursquare editor Jessica Smith.

Foursquare is a monthly magazine that launched in June 2006. Each issue features four female poets, whose work is printed side-by-side in 4x4 inch squares on 8x8 inch pages.

“...Because all four poems are simultaneously visible, the poems do not just work as independent 'sense units' -- they work as a unified visual plane on which many different things are happening. The effect on the viewer is similar to that of Futurist and Dadaist texts, which used typography in stunning ways to accomplish the simultaneous ends of conveying a denotative message while opening the viewer to visible connotations -- a wordplay that was physical as well as mental. FOURSQUARE represents a different way of looking at poems, and by extension, reading them."
-- Maureen Thorson

Past issues have included the work of TSky contributors Jenny Boully and Juliana Spahr, as well as Elizabeth Treadwell, Shanna Compton, K. Lorraine Graham, Linda Russo, Brenda Iijima, Maureen Thorson, Helen White, Michelle Detorie, Anne Boyer, T.A. Noonan, Kristy Bowen, Stephanie Young, Kate Greenstreet, Jennifer Scappettone, Susana Gardner, Erica Kaufman, Danielle Pafunda, and Sandra Beasley.

Bad news: Foursquare is only available by subscription, and subscriptions have sold out until June 2007.

Shampoo 28

Featuring TSky contributor Robyn Art, as well as Kimberly Lojek, Kristine Snodgrass, Lauren Haldeman, M. Mara-Ann, Malaika King Albrecht, Maricela Ramirez, Michelle McMahon, Mike Topp, Morgan Lucas Schuldt, Nicholas Manning, Nico Alvarado-Greenwood and Michael Comstock, Nicole Mauro, Rebecca Hazelton, Rodney Koeneke, Ronald Palmer, Tim J Brennan, Tim Shaner, William Corbett, Yuri Hospodar, Amanda Laughtland, Amy Berkowitz, Annette Hakiel, Ashley VanDoorn, Brane Mozetic, Brian Dean Bollman, CAConrad, Catherine Meng, Dan Brodnitz, Dan Thomas-Glass, Elisabeth Blair, Farid Matuk, James Davies, Jason Koo, Jeff Harrison, Jessica Reed, John Clair, KL Monahan, Kate Schapira, and Katie Uva.