The 2018 print issue amplifies the qualities in aesthetics and materials of ephemera as the main framework to poetry. Damien Gautier contributes his photography of urban typography showcasing various words, letters, and signs that Tab Journal rearranged and layered, calling attention to the arbitrary size and two dimensions of both the physical photograph and the postcard. In today’s world of excessive materials in a disposable culture, Tab Journal revisits the function and permanence in a collection of postcards. We examine the origin and value of a postcard as a record of personal travel, propaganda, and advertisement and how some collections end up being documents of preservation.
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The Volume 6 online issues were the last originally produced for the Open Journal Systems platform that Tab Journal used until its re-launch in January 2020. While the online issues pick up design elements of the print issue, they are designed not to replicate print nor to quietly frame content but, rather, to use the platform to create a distinct reading experience. Here in the new Archives, the issues are available via live link to the web-based PDF and as a downloadable PDF. In addition, each poet provides an audio version of a poem published in Tab Journal.
AT THE CAFÉ
Calvin Forbes
WHAT IS LOOKOUT,
Genevieve Kaplan
“I’M FROM NOW.” (AS SPOKEN BY MY FATHER)
Hadara Bar-Nadav
HALF
Denise Duhamel
THE BOOK OF GENES
Katie Manning
WAR CATCHERS
E. Ethelbert Miller
TO THE WIND-SEEDED DAISY BLOOMING ALONG MY GRAVEL ROAD’S TIRE RUT
Kevin Stein
THIS IS NOT AN ELEGY TO THE COLORADO RIVER
Lynn Pedersen
The content of our print issues is not available online in its entirety; this issue is still available and can be requested using the Contact form.
WIVES
Jessica Berg
EARTHLY MISHAPS and GUEST IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Mary Gilliland
ATLAL
Lubna Safi
BOOK REVIEW: The Red Hijab by Bonnie Bolling reviewed by
Matthew Wheatley
K-1st grade
CALIFORNIA TIDE POOL
Eleanora Duffy
DAZZLING DOLPHINS
Fatima Mohammed
SAND IN EVERY BEACH
Rishika Ganapathy
2nd–3rd grade
THE INCREDIBLE BEACH STORM
Rowan Matson
OUR CALIFORNIA COAST
Patrick Louie
SERENE SEA
Ameen Mohammed
4th–6th grade
THE OCEAN IS ME
Ella Schumer
RIVER FLOWS TO THE SEA
Elycia Eng
A PAINTING FOREVER FROZEN IN TIME
Chelsea Zhou
7th–9th grade
THE FLIGHT OF THE CATALINA CORMORANTS
Natasha Gupta
SWIMMING IN THE DEEP BLUE
Emma Almaguer
WAITING
Kelly Chuang
10th–12th grade
HUMAN
Anisha L. Johnson
DEEP
Kemi Ashing-Giwa
ELEGY FOR A GREAT WHITE SHARK
Sabine Holzman
CITY OF ANGELS
Michelle Bitting
RECYCLING and DAD’S WATCH
Peter Arvan Manos
WHAT THE PHYSICIANS IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM DON’T KNOW ABOUT THE HOUSEKEEPER IS (AFTER DENNIS O’DRISCOLL)
Donna O’Shaughnessy
THE DICTIONARY OF UNKNOWNS
Catherine Esposito Prescott
LITTLE WORDS
Colin Pope
BOOK REVIEW: The Short List of Certainties by Lois Roma-Deeley
Matthew Wheatley
CALVING and WANDER
Kristin George Bagdanov
FERROUS and DÉNOUEMENT
Alisha Hillam
SYNCHRONICITY
Beatrice Lazarus
ELEGY FOR A GAMBLER
Liz Marlow
IT WASN’T THE WAR and COMPLINE: CAMP CASEY
Gary Mesick
FASHION WEEK, VOSS
Amy Pence
FIVE HEARTS
Alexandra Umlas
GRATITUDE JOURNAL and WHEN I RUN AWAY TO THEOLOGY SCHOOL
Kristin Berkey-Abbott
PANTANAL
William Bonfiglio
THE IMAGINED CITY OF ALUCIO
Kristen Brida
FOR JERRY HALL, STARTLED, IN THE CAR and FOR KATE MOSS IN THE CAR WITH JOHNNY
Kelly R. Samuels
MANNA
Emily Shearer
BOOK REVIEW: Letters to the Future: Black Women/Radical Writing edited by Erica Hunt and Dawn Lundy Martin
Rachel Skye Nicholls
BOOK REVIEW: Dirt, Root, Silk by Susan Azar Porterfield
Mariam Saïd
BOOK REVIEW: St. Francis and the Flies by Brian Swann
Daniel Strasberger