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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



Email: tyger quarterly @ gmail dot com 



©2022 TQ



Mike Bagwell













GRAMMATOLOGY


One animal is an animal but
more than one animal is a longing.

At night, the shadow that glides and falls
comes back with malevolent intent

and a metal-reinforced vector of desire.
It is safe now to want it all to last

or to be compelled to weep.
Here, this is a method of blinking in a hole

the size of your palm. Skypenis, newly arrived,
proliferates this knowledge, basks

in it with a birdbath joy. He gestures
and lightning slips out as thoughts.

God is too small. He is meant to be the last,
but the rest of the sky keeps planning more

which is a little sad. My friend filled
my hands with rocks. Not that kind of fill,

I mean taxidermy, only the good rocks,
the unsmooth ones that no one throws.

As in wild longing, remember
where your home is and don’t try to find it.







PASTORAL


All the time, regular things
still happen. Breeze gathers
in wild oaks, noon moves on
to the west like a gunslinger
to get swept up somewhere
along Hegel’s dialectic,
black letters on cardboard signs say
distance
is a worthwhile enemy
even to itself.
Guns are as close
to telekinesis
as we’re going to get.
Ruin some beer can’s day
and just barely think about it.
Glow in the dark leaves:
now that’s a technology
I could dedicate my life to.
When they fall, they light a path
that takes me behind the pond
to somewhere else.




Biographical Statement


Mike Bagwell is exploring gratitude as a poetic form until it's overwhelming, while still overcoming a recent bout of mutual antagonism towards the sky. He is a writer and software engineer in Philly. His work appears in Action SpectacleITERANT, Sprung Formal, Heavy Feather, HAD, BodegaOkay Donkey, and others. He is the author of chapbooks A Collision of Soul in Midair (Bottlecap Press 2023), Or Else They Are Trees (El Aleph Press), and micros from Ghost City Review and Rinky Dink Press. Find him at mikebagwell.me, @low_gh0st, or playing dragons with his daughters.