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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








BOYSTUFF 1&2
 



Your mustache makes me want to take a seat.
I watch your collarbone where sweat and sun
collect, expand, and wrap in pools around
your freckled redwood neck and vowel tongue.
Recall the clever quotes prayer for change;
I’ll stretch my canines towards your ears.
I get off blurting truth.
I kissed a married man and it felt good.
He asked and I said yes and then I hoped
somehow you’d see and be impressed
by how little my body meant when it mattered.
With long and lighted strides we make
a promise to be wrong and loved
regardless. Pretty boy, I’m waiting here.



Regardless, pretty boy, I’m waiting here
while Summer makes a moron out of me.
My drooling tongue has picked up gulls and cans
and dunes. I’m a hamster on a wheel,
a three-song playlist on repeat,
a half-baked metaphor in pricy sunscreen.
The waste bin’s full of crusty tissues cracked.
Invasive birds eat all the lavender,
and still, my stupid, spigot soul pours out
and drowns you in these poems crying love
and yearn and want. We’re due to bridge the space
between our God and horizontal time,
but God is just a horse inside a maze
all trapped and doomed to bray, cry, and kick.

 







VERTICAL STRIPES




Look at you in that Carhartt shirt:
your sunburnt sternum, your songbird neck. 

                    So obnoxious. I’m just
                   supposed to sip this mocktail? 

                                        I lean into you and become more myself. 
                                        Your dog swims after our friend:

                   three poets mark the trees with piss and laughter.
                   You meet my eyes and cut me a feeling.

The hours stretch ugly without you.
You hold a water snake as though he were a feather.

                   He wiggles between your knuckles
                   and flicks his tongue of mischief.

                                        Humidity and love poems are sisters,
                                        lilting their wrists and calling us in from the porch.

                   We tell them we’ll be right there;
                   we’re too busy licking each other’s foreheads.

I ask you to spit into my blue plastic cup
so I can swallow you in public.








Biographical Statement


Philip Kenner (he/they) is an NYC-based poet and playwright from New Rochelle, NY. His chapbook, BOYSTUFF, is forthcoming from Glass Poetry Press in 2025. His poems and plays are published in Colectivo Tabú, Milk Press, poetry.onl, Cordite Poetry Review, and Kitchen Table Quarterly, among others. He is a founding member of COPY Magazine, and he has an MFA from Northwestern University. philkenner.com