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Issue 1: Spring 2022

  1. Serena Solin
  2. Toby Altman  
  3. S. Brook Corfman
  4. Katana Smith
  5. Natalee Cruz
  6. Emma Wilson
  7. Ashley Colley
  8. Colin Criss 
  9. Jack Chelgren
  10. Stefania Gomez 

Issue 2: Summer 2022
  1. Matthew Klane
  2. Ryan Nhu
  3. TR Brady
  4. Alana Solin
  5. K. Iver
  6. Emily Barton Altman
  7. William Youngblood
  8. Alex Wells Shapiro  
  9. Sasha Wiseman
  10. Yunkyo Moon-Kim


Issue 3: Fall 2022
  1. Sun Yung Shin
  2. Rosie Stockton
  3. Adele Elise Williams & Henry Goldkamp
  4. Noa Micaela Fields
  5. Miriam Moore-Keish
  6. Fred Schmalz
  7. Katy Hargett-Hsu
  8. Alicia Mountain
  9. Austin Miles
  10. Carlota Gamboa

  Birthday Presents
       for William Blake

    Five Words for William Blake
        on His 265th Birthday
            (after Jack Spicer)
 


Issue 4: Winter 2023

  1. MICHAEL CHANG 
  2. Daniel Borzutzky
  3. Alicia Wright
  4. Asha Futterman
  5. Ellen Boyette
  6. S Cearley
  7. Sebastián Páramo
  8. Abbey Frederick
  9. Caylin Capra-Thomas
  10. maryhope|whitehead|lee & Ryan Greene


Issue 5: Spring 2023

  1. Jose-Luis Moctezuma 
  2. Peter Leight
  3. Rachel Galvin
  4. Sophia Terazawa
  5. Katherine Gibbel
  6. Lloyd Wallace
  7. Timothy Ashley Leo
  8. Jessica Laser
  9. Kira Tucker
  10. Michael Martin Shea


Issue 6: Summer 2023

An Introduction to Tyger Quarterly’s The Neo-Surrealist Interview Series

1. Mary Jo Bang 
2. Marty Cain 
3. Dorothy Chan 
4. Aditi Machado 
5. Alicia Mountain
6. Serena Solin
7. Marty Riker 
8. Francesca Kritikos
9. Luther Hughes
10. Toby Altman

Bonus: William Blake Tells All


Issue 7: Fall 2023 


1. Dennis James Sweeney 
2. M. Cynthia Cheung
3. Nathaniel Rosenthalis
4. Reuben Gelley Newman
5. James Kelly Quigley 
6. Christine Kwon
7. Maxwell Rabb
8. Maura Pellettieri 
9. Patty Nash 
10. Alyssa Moore


Issue 8: Winter 2024
1. Julian Talamantez Brolaski
2. Elizabeth Marie Young
3. Michael Gardner 
4. Steffan Triplett 
5. Margaret Yapp
6. Chelsea Tadeyeske
7. June Wilson 
8. Dawn Angelicca Barcelona
9. Evan Williams 
10. Brendan Sherry 


Issue 9 + 10: Spring/Summer 2024
1. Emily Pittinos 
2. Lisa Low 
3. Binx Perino 
4. Kai Ihns
5. Alex Tretbar 
6. Joanie Cappetta 
7. Mike Bagwell
8. Kelly Clare
9. Antonio Vargas-Nieto 
10. Olivia Sio Tse 

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11. Jackson Watson
12. Myka Kielbon
13. Henie Zhang
14. David Brennan
15. Ann Pedone
16. Maddy Chrisman-Miller
17. Ronnie Sirmans
18. Evan Goldstein
19. Anne Marie Rooney
20. Cameron Lovejoy


Issue 11: Fall 2024
This issue of Tyger Quarterly is coming out on the 267th birthday of William Blake. Around 1826 Blake printed his Laocoön, at the top reads “Where any view of Money exists Art cannot be carried on but War only.” In this spirit of Blake, rather than putting out a new issue of poetry, the Tygers of Tyger Quarterly have put together links to writing, and other medias, that have figured as meaningful reading, writing, listening as we continue the fight to end Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine.

1. My Palestinian Poem that “The New Yorker” Wouldn’t Publish by Fady Joudah (from LARB)
2. No Human Being Can Exist + No Human Being Can Exist by Saree Makdisi (from N+1)
3. Under the Jumbotron + William Blake’s ‘Laocoön’: Why this poet’s engraving reads like a protest poster” by Anahid Nersessian (from LRB + The Yale Review) 
4. On Israel and Lebanon: A Response to Adrienne Rich from One Black Woman by June Jordan (from New York War Crimes)
5. Genocide Leaves No Illusions in Tact by Yasmeen Daher (from Verso)
6. Can You Tell Us Why This Is Happening: Testimonies from Gaza (from N+1)
7. Landing: Skateboarding in Palestine by Maen Hammad (Bonus Documentary: Epicly Palestined: The Birth of Skateboarding in the West Bank) (from N+1 + SkatePal)
8. Palestine is Everywhere, and It Is Making Us More Free: More Letters from The Apocalypse by George Abraham and Sarah Aziza (from The Nation)
9. Liberation Pedagogy at the People’s University for Gaza by Amir Marshi (from MQR)
10. “We,” A Poem for Palestine by Ghayath Almadhoun (from Outlook India) 
11. Resources Towards a Free Palestine (from Mizna)
12. Crimes Against Language: The Moral Truth of Israel’s War Against Gaza is not Difficult to Grasp by Sarah Aziza (from The Baffler)
13. Israelism: The Awakening of Young American Jews dir.  Erin Axelman and Sam Eilertsen
14. [excerpt from Palestine (+100)] Editor’s Introduction by Basma Ghalayini +  “The Curse of the Mud Ball Kid” by Mazen Maarouf (translated by Jonathan Wright)
15. If I Must Die by Refaat Alareer (from In These Times)


Issue 12: [late] Winter 2025
  1. Cean Gamalinda
  2. Léon Pradeau
  3. Danika Stegeman 
  4. Warren C. Longmire
  5. Erick Verran
  6. Phoebe Pan
  7. Temperance Aghamohammadi
  8. Josh Fomon
  9. Philip Kenner
  10. Andy Sia




Email: tyger quarterly @ gmail dot com 



©2022 TQ








HOW I WOULD MAKE THE AIR VISIBLE

besides giving it skin and choosing a color
or illegally streamed Bulls game static
trying to understand pain while high on its killers
the way saying fuck keeps it real —
tell me the pain is meaningful
then call me the CEO of UnitedHealthcare
the way i arbitrarily reject 90% of your claims
one percent of the world’s hottest people
control most of the world’s coolest shit
time and ease
and time and time and ease
which is different than goodness
which is different than why this shit happens
the way that it does
deeper than breath
as it enters the body
as we enter "the city
the scale upon which your heart
when you die will be weighed”
-Alice Notley









 FAKE TAN HANDS AND A HOOP


the idea of a fake tan is funny because every tan is either real or fake
and a hoop
and for hands to have color, which superimposes shade on use
to wound what we could do by measuring it.
as far as i can tell, a hoop
is what a hadron jumps through, i googled it.
i like russian
in russian, you don’t say something “is” something, you just name one thing
and then you name another and we know what you mean.
the other day, my mom called, and i asked her what language she thinks in
and she said she doesn’t think
in any language at all.
as far as i can tell
culture should not be appropriated
but neither do i think it should be exchanged
i think culture should bleed, like a color
or a fake tan, or hands, and a hoop
because the wound is not the site of the hurt
just like meaning lives somewhere between us we don’t or can’t talk about
some of us are born with tan hands
and only develop a hoop later in life
others of us are born with a hoop
and learn to live with it.
if this was a board meeting, this is where the CEO would stand and clap before giving me a cost of living raise that’s half of inflation
i don't think my asshole boss hates mondays
i think she hates her job
socialize my stagnant wages
privatize moral bankruptcy
but cean, that's class not culture, says some nerd
no, i say, and cross them up. hesi pull-up jimbo.
not how fucked we are, but the nature of it
my coworker who hates queer kids bc he's never met one
your toxic nonmonogamous organizer boyfriend
fake tan hands and a hoop
itty bitty titties and a bob
yes, there's differences that matter
til they don’t




WHAT NOW



a text from a crush shakes the day
suddenly, this shit is not so bad
& the urgency of being here
splits earth like a mountain of need
i love that word suddenly
it’s the spoken speed of feeling
suddenly, says Whitman, my purpose is known
or the face of someone familiar newly lit
or sudden orders to disperse
when the line pushes back against pigs
suddenly, says Whitman in my head
suddenly, the nightly news my parents still watch says
i’m simple, i wasn’t always
& the only thing that changed
is happening







Biographical Statement