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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








EAT ME AFTER
AFTER MELANIE KLEIN
 

I reminded her that             dislike
                                                might
find out
about her
and punish her.



have
Psycho                     Children
play a severe and punishing
doll             very cruelly.

her ambivalence
her mother, her
extreme need to be punished,
her guilt
her night terrors
this          aged           year–––

—a        relentless
              opera
              punishing
              hum


punish      a bad father
figure      when he is old.

the house impelled
              him to
              father
all his possessions

              By devaluing their own
              gifts they both deny envy
              and punish themselves
              for it!


punish him
punish                   me by 
having to eat        my
distrust

              again and again
assail    the course
punishment finds satisfaction by
the increased         valuation of lead


She
              would punish him.
one time seemed contradictory
mainly due to
the
training


a constant
              increases under
              fear of punishment
A game
             followed by dike and
in turn by
                              gain
punished                           the
present

rest is        a punishing
element common to most
ill people                 terrifying
              part of the super-ego
              inked with the        lie
which   punishes the evildoer.


come and
punish me

follow                  This
              rest         to violence

threaten to punish him if he
does not               mother.

how    clearly
how     largely the very need for
punishment

contributed     patient
                           offenses.

 







VERY LIITLE
AFTER JACQUES LACAN




Now, a little late in the day, I pinch a fact
or cork little antinomy. I mentioned a little
while ago that I am speaking a little more.
I was recently a little included in this little
alchemy. You may feel I am leading you,


little by little, to
the naive failure
the      delighted
attempt to grasp
who declares me
a little too early,
a little too late. I
will justify little
intentionally


Wish to have said, as if asleep,   can’t you?
This reel is not a little game worth the part
the subject detaches   while still remaining
why does the subject take either too much
pleasure in traumatizing causality––or too
little, as in    the butterfly     the Wolf Man
the phobic terror    the beating little wings
so very far from beating causation, primal
stripe marking the time. the grid of desire
is comparable to what


a little while ago
I placed between
that blackboard
and my name a
more exact canvas
a trellis traversed
by necessary rays.


I have to see a point traversed.  little allows
me to remark concerns.     The secret of this
picture is given away,  little by little, we see
what the floating order posed by this relation
to you


its place is a little
story. It is always
at the heart of my
little story      it is
always this which
prevents me from


that overflow I have already referred to this
little Méduse et compagnie, that unquestion


what the specialist
calls those little    ,
those little   , those
little       
  touches
is that the function


is something                                  different
the organization which held us in our little
story showing us why we come back to the
little     , little     , little     again the passing
slow-motion film sees the most exemplary
invidia


one I found sums
up the little child
his breast looking
to effect a poison.
Having said this,


I know my question gave you a little rope
with very little behind the shutters. This is


what is in question
I have not touched
the point at which
it is possible to
form who, at that
moment, is lying,
lied a little before,
is lying afterwards,


or even, lying, declares the intention failed
now a little contrary he tries to illustrate the
simplest hallucination of simplest need, it
occurred in the dream of tori, strawberries,
eggs, delicacies, purely and simply present
need. on account of the sex the hallucination
is possible


you will notice little
forbidden objects in
this little mirror,


which shuts out what is on the other side
the subject sees obtained the inverted bunch
of flowers, that is to say, his own content.
at a certain level, this is how we approach
the problem a little more.


Why should it sometimes take a little time
for the light to come on? just a little. must
be others there––


all these little methods, they don’t speak to
a particular person, they just speak à la can
-tonade
. Let us keep this little losange  <> .
Symbolic logic, teach us the operation. But


in a little passage
there is some
misunderstanding
called my desire
and in a small note
some inaccessible
passage taken by
two pupils


In the earlier sample, useless is an important
remark to refute, not me, I am not involved,
but those who speak my name effect that
desire all the same, the fact the animal passes


from a hundred
frequencies to a
hundred other,
little concerning
little said


it was about time somebody began to look
lovable, in fact very little to say, as little is


what is at issue










Biographical Statement

Tony Wei Ling is a managing editor for Nat. Brut magazine.