some author activity: Cadsby, Swensen, Martin, Solomon + Williams,

Heather Cadsby is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Cole Swensen has two new poems in Big Other; Camille Martin's work is featured in the latest issue of Of Poets & Poetry; Misha Solomon has a new poem up at Plenitude magazine; and an excerpt of Evan Williams' new chapbook is now online at Cleveland Review of Books.

new from above/ground press: LIVID REMAINDERS, by Geoffrey Olsen

LIVID REMAINDERS
Geoffrey Olsen
$5

 ease splits long this
        about class, marks white
  tree distillate, fierce gloom
recede in place of
    accumulated people not said
  straight forward ocean recedes along
 shore vast purple black depth
   terror dailiness
   in proactive form
  everything in the space of “my life”
 rooted poet name
   fed cats at dawn
action resides collective turn
  broke piano

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Geoffrey Olsen is the author of four chapbooks in addition to this one, most recently Nerves Between Song (These Signals Press 2022) and The Deer Havens (above/ground press 2020). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

This is Olsen’s second above/ground press chapbook, after The Deer Havens (2020).

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

above/ground press at the TIFA Small Press Market at Harbourfront Centre Toronto this Saturday!

above/ground press (that's me!) will be exhibiting as part of the TIFA Small Press Market this Saturday from 11-5pm: you should come by! I'll have a whole slew of above/ground press new and recent items, and will be joined by a wealth of other incredible small publishers.

https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/small-press-book-fair/

Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto M5J 2G8

please come! huzzah!

Here's the full list of incredible small presses that will be participating!

Invisible Publishing
knife | fork | book
Anstruther Press
Simulacrum Press
above/ground press
Puddles of Sky Press
Coach House Press
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
Gordon Hill Press
Proper Tales Press
Teama Publishing
Augur Magazine
nOIR:Z
Dumagrad Books
Gap Riot Press
Book*hug Press
Serif of Nottingham
Nietzsche’s Brolly

All presses attending are also part of TIFA’s Interactive Small Press Map of Canada.
https://festivalofauthors.ca/small-press-interactive-map/

Benjamin Niespodziany's virtual reading marathon, September 24, 2023: Logan, mclennan, Walker, Williams, Barwin etc

above/ground press author Benjamin Niespodziany has curated a virtual reading marathon that will go live on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at noon CT, featuring thirty-one readers and nearly three hours of footage! the event also includes plenty of other above/ground press authors, including Nate Logan, rob mclennan, Laura Walker, Evan Williams and Gary Barwin! The premiere link for the event will be here, "live" on YouTube and will continue to be available after the event on his YouTube channel. He has included a list of authors and timestamps, also, if you aren't able to sit through all three hours.

00:00 Intro
01:02 Sparrow
05:12 Rebecca Wadlinger
07:44 Rainie Oet
10:15 Vi Khi Nao
13:07 Nate Logan
15:59 Jose Hernandez Diaz
19:31 Kristin Lueke
20:54 william erickson
25:06 Zachary Schomburg
29:36 Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
34:37 Angelo Maneage
36:35 Joe Aguilar
42:08 Tyler Barton
50:58 Vik Shirley
54:53 Michael Bazzett
55:21 Daisuke Shen
57:24 rob mclennan
1:07:51 Laura Walker
1:12:56 Tom Snarsky
1:22:00 Evan Williams
1:34:49 Réka Nyitrai
1:36:24 David Wojciechowski
1:45:40 Jay Besemer
1:49:42 Paul Cunningham
1:58:00 David Dodd Lee
2:03:36 Lesle Lewis
2:10:09 Daniel Miller
2:15:51 Rick Bursky
2:24:08 Kai Ihns
2:27:44 Jeff Alessandrelli
2:37:34 Gary Barwin

new from above/ground press: How to, by Heather Cadsby

How to
Heather Cadsby
$5

How to look at a broken fountain

You see water running down the driveway. Somewhere a source gets turned off and a man in a plaid scarf tut tuts some kids who run away. You look at plaid. It could be someone’s clan. It looks like Dress Gordon. Can it be a fountain wrap? It’s a waste of time to ask. No one knows what is wrong. A girl in a plaid skirt says Huh and heads on to school. You look at a broken fountain. It has never really worked yet.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Heather Cadsby is the author of five books of poetry. The most recent is titled Standing in the Flock of Connections (Brick Books).

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Witek, Armantrout, Burdick, Dardis + Campos,

forthcoming author Terri Witek has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; Rae Armantrout has five new poems up at The Brooklyn Rail; Alice Burdick has two new poems and a statement in the Spotlight series; forthcoming author Colin Dardis also has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; and Isabel Sobral Campos has new work up at Black Sun Lit.

new from above/ground press: An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors, by Evan Williams

An Extremely Well-Funded Study of Doors
Evan Williams
$5

My door is kicked in. It is splintered and sputtering. I stand in its shards, mixed with window glass. It is a structure which resembles a structure only insofar as I still can turn the knob. I turn the knob, and the door does not work. The knob works, the door does not. It is splintered and sputtering.

The intruder jumps from the window upon seeing my doorway stance. I take in hand the knob as a consolation weapon. In the glass of his exit window is a note and pile of money. There is so much money, $800,000. A tricky amount of cash to carry when hoping to be lithe. It is, however, not as large a bill bundle as expected. It is both overwhelming and underwhelming as a feat of agility. Only underwhelming after it is overwhelming, like the beautifully unkempt outside of an abandoned house.

The note says only: Go out and buy the best door.

                                                               *

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2023
as the twenty-first title in above/ground’s prose/naut imprint
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover illustration/design: Angelo Maneage

Evan Williams lives behind a white door in Chicago. It has, in its upper third, a peephole partially painted over. Evan is looking through it right now. Someone is knocking.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com