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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 



Email: tyger quarterly @ gmail dot com 



©2022 TQ



                                            Katy Hargett-Hsu

                                                                                                                                                 
                                                                   





WOUND ERASURE
       
    [WAITING ROOM] 



before I got here         I was a morbid essay    though writing occupies me well enough

                                                                    [              before it crushes under the weight of itself     ]


he [psychiatrist] doesn’t believe women’s pain             ready for the worst         scrapes out the bog


                                                                    [              how would you rate your pain on a scale of     ]


the situation, then: to go bash the impression that my nerves were the bog


                                                                    [                         I just don’t try to be happy                        ]


coming out of bog      bog occupying body                body as allegory to implode


                                                                    [I was before & coming out of numbness, wanting       ]


a clap                 an on-off switch          chalk to the scrape       the guts to do it


                                                                    [                         by god I’ll scrape out of this year             ]


the bog              my remembered life: stalling     the slow calcification of




WOUND ERASURE
       
    [DAY OF REST]




what’s going to happen next?

                                            [                          debrief me                             ]

undress a moment      at the mouth

without much adornment

                                            [          clean & minimal as a hatchet            ]

gone now          blood & fire in a cup

curtain drawn

                                            [             my face a forensic detail                 ]

yep         everything is fine!

I want a party!                 gown & tie

quiet, clean         in a little nondescript house

                                            [                for medical & forensic purposes]

what a wish

                                            to be alone

                                            [ & everything

slinging the mouth—                                                                                   ] 



WOUND ERASURE
       
    [PRIZEFIGHTER]




                                           I like being external

taking off my shirt          all clear from

bronze-stained cold

call me love                     take my perpetual

infantilized hook             I’m fragile on my own

I get petulant                   trusted to a herd

a little kid                          tapping the prize

God knows                       I’ve got to steal

while everybody              looks away

call me                               locus of looking

call me                               wishing jaw

seeing is really just         tapping a belief

fast enough                      though practically useless

.





Biographical Statement:


Kathryn Hargett-Hsu 徐凯蒂 is an MFA candidate in poetry at Washington University in St. Louis. Most recently, she received the Academy of American Poets Prize and the Lynda Hull Memorial Poetry Prize. Find her in Best New Poets, Pleiades, Crazyhorse, The Margins, Salt Hill Journal, Arts & Letters, Muzzle Magazine, TaiwaneseAmerican.org, Best New Poets, Cherry Tree, and elsewhere.