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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

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)



Email: tyger quarterly @ gmail dot com 



©2022 TQ



Colin Criss








JUST BEFORE NIGHTFALL
When a rhetorician speaks
with a swan, the swan murmurs
nervously of reed and tendril, though not
in such terms. The swan is asked of the weather,

declines tea. The swan obliges
the gesture of sunlight; not so, the beckoning
hand. On one side of the pond, there appears a dark film,

like a lid. The swan has pointed
towards it, still in the breeze and sun.
There are many lives here… I feel inclination
towards a question, but cannot bring myself to disturb

the mood. I have come here
on a walk. I, eventually, think of another,
one whom I think of often. It takes a lot to break a pattern.

To experience a break is not the same as inference
of a breaking.






THE ESSENTIAL BREUGHEL
This is the life: essentially
Breughelian—waxy skin shining
on waxy lea. Waxy forest. Waxy
snow. Waxy flame, waxing into
something warm. I’m dreadfully
alone. I sit at a desk. I lie
on the floor. I lie. I lie. Nothing is
as I say. I think of crowds,
I think of crowds skating,
I think they know nothing
of each other. Little fools,
smiling with waxy lips, smiling
not at me, or anyone else, or even
at God. I skate on ice as thin
as clouds, as thin as lines.
I skate in the background—for I
am out-of-focus. In front,
a small family, with a waxy sled,
slides away, two children crisp
and smudged with happiness.
A color doesn’t swim into
another, here, doesn’t swim
at all with Breughel, it is not so.
Waxy, waxy lines. We must live
with a perfect precision, the snow
coughs, perfectly precise, our life.
With such dictum, where
should I have gone, but into
the background? I ask questions
I need answered—I wait, meanwhile.
We wait for something to accumulate
on our noses. We wait and, with
little kolf sticks, roll happiness
across the ice. Why
do the children smile? No reason
precedes the painter. The kids,
they smile for themselves;
it is all they have left. It is all
they have ever had.








LIKE WHAT HOME BECOMES
A village between glacial knuckles.
Everything on the tongue is becoming.
I’m learning how to tie off my mind.
I’m learning how to chirp. Like a faulty
Wordsworth, everything I look for
will tell me something when I find it.
Bells so far away they might be wind.
Snow so close it might be thunder.
Sense warps, when passed through knowledge,
into sense. I wander in likeness—I am
like that. Silence will be the final condition
taken for granted.






Biographical Statement
Colin Criss has an MFA in poetry from Washington University in St. Louis. He is from Old Forge, NY, in the Adirondacks. His poems have appeared, or will soon, in Ploughshares, Grist, New Limestone Review, Midwest Review, the Harvard Advocate, and in other places. He lives in Moscow, ID, and teaches creative writing at Washington State University.