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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


Issue 13 + 14: The Trans* Issue

The Trans* Issue 

  1. Andrea Abi-Karam
  2. Paul S. Ukrainets
  3. Alex J. Cope
  4. Syd Westley 
  5. Sally Geiger
  6. Alice Fulmer-Zelinka
  7. Elizander Espenschied
  8. Tony Wei Ling
  9. Orion Allen
  10. Levi Cain


Trans Histories & Poetics


This Compilation Represents a Few Meaningful Starting Points for a Handful of our Trans* Editors. Read, Think, Write, Act!    


  1. Trans of Color Poetics: Stitching Bodies, Concepts, and Algorithms by Micha Cárdenas (from S&F Online)

  2. Shifting the Subject: an interview with kari edwards by akilah oliver

    (from Rain Taxi)
  3. LOTE by Shola von Reinhold (Duke University Press, 2022)

  4. “Even a Freak Like You Would Be Safe in Tel Aviv”: Transgender Subjects, Wounded Attachments, and the Zionist Economy of Gratitude by

    Saffo Papantonopoulou (WSQ, 2014)

  5. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times

    By Jasbir K Puar (Duke University Press, 2007)

  6. What is the Project of

    Trans Poetics Now? Editors Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel on Moving Towards a Trans Revolutionary Practice (from LitHub)

  7. The Limits of Trans Liberalism by Nat Raha (from Verso)
  8. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton (University of Minnesota Press, 2017)

  9. Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique by Sa’ed Atshan (Stanford University Press, 2020)

  10. “Gender Underground: A Trans History of Do-it-Yourself” by Jules Gill-Peterson (from Radcliffe) 




Email: tyger quarterly @ gmail dot com 


©2022 TQ







LITTLE SECRETS///I KEEP









PETTY DISAPPOINTMENT///BLUE VELVET

 










 CUNT BECOMES
 


the cunt becomes something else / phantom quiver / we deal
in muscle & I got extra / distorted bones / a separation /
between the pleasure & its reaction / blocked by a sock /
some rubber / sick silicone mockery / one more surgery
courting / slowly pulling / an offering / libidinous lunch / on
terms I can’t stare down / & understand / what I want / why
every urge is blurred / grainy desires / until you / one of you
/ shows me what that tunnel is / good for / I must know / if
I’ve flooded it / enough testosterone running / below
epidermal layers / excised other confounding factors / do I
scalpel / once more / pull that mister from your throat?







Biographical Statement


Elizander Espenschied is a poet from Cleveland, Ohio who studied English & American Literature at New York University.  He carries his poems in his backpack despite having some published by The Weasel, The Greene Street Review, and The Minetta Review.  It is currently pursuing an MFA at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.