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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



Toby Altman







from "Forms of Democratic Feeling / Told in a Shimmering Tense"





EVERY BUILDING YOU SEE IS AN IMAGE 

he will begin by devouring the syntax of glass

peacock-blue opalescent leaded glass suspended above the transept

like touching delicate textiles like touch itself

he consumes the silver interior of a mirror,

sweeps away the lily and lays down cement, eyes of the bank, green beneath it

it cannot hold him his ache or his complaint it cannot hold

he does not work with incorruptible materials

pleasure which is spending money badly driving to do it

pleasure like a room from which silence has been suddenly removed

his mansion is in excess of all loving,

unbounded as the mind in a bower of lime-trees, pruned, dressed in deodorant

he flees from me, he goes, absorbed in the dark leather upholstery of his SUV 

Twenty-four vertical rectangles of glass in the clerestory. Four on the short sides, eight on the long. Looking through or with them, the act of banking, embraced by staining

The poem proceeds toward the act of banking, the fact of money, but it begins in light. It seeks to express in simple, well-chosen language the current experience of life



OF A MAN YOU DO NOT SEE
thus restraining whatever he touches

driving to a suburb whose name means “Dawn” its price is withering

making space for symptoms of flowering space for symptoms of credit

the man is among, a shadow falls between him

to be many and undone, perishing so that only the many survive

to be in a relation to light architecture which makes light visible

what cloth is he what luminous tent

that so many shadows on him tend the action of a shadow its shivering hands

rinsed in rose rinsed in green vegetation without mass

he begins by devouring the syntax of glass

then the air fragrant shadow which is the ancestor of glass its end

sweet as an oboe, soft as the prairie, when spirits of value and information move upon it

To see health, we must look through and beyond disease. To see health, we must look, inviting the eye into the vault. Though even with its door flung open, one gazes on a shiver

The force that moves inside a dollar: blue residue of breathing, buckled, caught inside a vitreous sheath.


SHIMMERING
The OED calls it “a subdued...light,” citing Scott: “diffused...a trembling,” “two silver lamps fed with perfumed oil.” Shimmering is the partial presence of light: unsecured, at the boundary of usefulness. More broadly: the partial presence of any precious thing. Anything that can be only partially possessed. May be described as shimmering. A sickly child, deposits of silver, bed linens and chewing tobacco, even the truth itself. Emerson: “One man sees a spark or shimmer of the truth.” Implying that more men are necessary. To cultivate a shimmer.






Biographical Statement:






Toby Altman is the author of two books, Discipline Park (Wendy’s Subway, 2022) and Arcadia, Indiana (Plays Inverse, 2017). He recently received a 2021 Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has held residencies from the Vermont Studio Center, the Millay Colony for the Arts, and MacDowell, where he was the 2020 Stephanie and Robert Olmstead Fellow. His poems can be found in Gulf Coast, jubilat, Lana Turner, and other journals and anthologies; his articles and essays can or will be found in Contemporary Literature, English Literary History, and Jacket2. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and a PhD in English from Northwestern University.