Carl Watts reviews Jordan Abel’s TIMELESS AMERICAN CLASSIC (2017) in The /tƐmz/ Review

Carl Watts was good enough to review for Jordan Abel’s TIMELESS AMERICAN CLASSIC (2017) as part of a three chapbook review in the latest issue of The /tƐmz/ Review. Thanks so much! This is actually the third review of Abel's latest above/ground press chapbook, after I. Rattan reviewed such at Broken Pencil #77, and Toronto writer Cary Fagan was good enough to review the same at his Word Music. You can see Watts' full review here.
 

The Factory Reading Series: O'Reilly, Johnson, Watts + Neilson, March 3, 2017

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:
The Factory Reading Series:

"Frog Hollow Leaps into Ottawa"
http://www.froghollowpress.com

with readings by:

Patrick O'Reilly (NL)
Chris Johnson (Ottawa)
Carl Watts (Kingston)
+ Shane Neilson (Hamilton)

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Friday, March 3, 2017
doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm
The Carleton Tavern,
223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)17

Patrick O'Reilly is a poet and critic from Renews, NL. He has written for untethered, The Walrus, and Numéro Cinq, where he is a masthead contributor. In 2017, he was featured in the In/Words 30 under 30 anthology.

Chris Johnson [pictured] lives and works in Ottawa where he is the co-ordinating editor for Arc Poetry Magazine. Some of his poems have previously appeared in In/Words Magazine, Ottawater, Matrix Magazine, The Steel Chisel, and (parenthetical). His new chapbook, Listen Partisan! And other stumbling Haibun, recently appeared with Frog Hollow Press.

Carl Watts is a PhD candidate in the Department of English at Queen's University. His poetry has appeared in The Antigonish Review, CV2, Grain, and The Best Canadian Poetry 2014. Reissue is his debut chapbook.

Shane Neilson is a writer from New Brunswick. He edited two collections involving the work of the poet M. Travis Lane last year (The Witch of the Inner Wood, GLE & Heart on Fist, Palimpsest Press). His Dysphoria is soon to be released from PQL. Shane won the Robin Blaser Award in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Seattle Review Chapbook Contest by Claudia Rankine in 2016. Shane is also a physician and a Vanier Scholar at McMaster University where he is researching the representations of pain in Canadian Literature. He is the editor of Frog Hollow Press.

The Factory Reading Series: A Night of Too Many Poets, May 31, 2015

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:

The Factory Reading Series presents: A Night of Too Many Poets

featuring readings by:

Eric Schmaltz (Toronto)
Julia Polyck-O'Neill (St Catharines)
Dale Tracy (Kingston)
Andy Weaver (Toronto)
Carl Watts (Kingston)
ryan fitzpatrick (Vancouver)
Deanna Fong (Vancouver)
Cameron Anstee (Ottawa)
Jessi MacEachern (Montreal)
Jason Camlot (Montreal)
+ philip miletic (Waterloo)

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Sunday, May 31, 2015;
doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm
The Carleton Tavern,
223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)

Eric Schmaltz is an artist who works with text & sound.

Julia Polyck-O'Neill is a curator, visual artist, writer, and co-curator of the Borderblur Reading Series in St Catharines, ON. She is a currently doctoral student in Brock University’s Interdisciplinary Humanities program, and holds an MA in Studies in Comparative Literatures and Arts from Brock University as well a BFA in Visual Art and English Concentration from the University of Ottawa. Her research examines historic and contemporary conceptualisms in Vancouver visual arts and literature.

Dale Tracy has her doctorate from Queen’s University, where she studied contemporary poetry. Currently teaching contemporary literature at the Royal Military College of Canada, she is engaged in Kingston’s arts community, reading at poetry events and arts festivals and collaborating in community theatre productions.

Andy Weaver's third book of poetry, titled this, will be published by Chaudiere Books this Fall. His two previous books, Were the Bees and gangson, were nominated for Alberta Book Awards. He teaches contemporary poetry and poetics at York University.

Carl Watts is a PhD candidate at Queen's University, where he is writing his dissertation on national and ethnic identities in twentieth-century Canadian literature. His poetry has most recently appeared in The Dalhousie Review and The Best Canadian Poetry in English, 2014. He is looking forward to riding the Megabus all the way to New York City next month, when he will join the Canadian Poetry contingent at the Bryant Park Word for Word festival.

ryan fitzpatrick is a poet and critic living in Vancouver. He is the author of two books of poetry: Fortified Castles (Talonbooks, 2014) and Fake Math (Snare, 2007). With Jonathan Ball, he is co-editor of Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry (Insomniac, 2014). With Deanna Fong and Janey Dodd, he works on the second iteration of the Fred Wah Digital Archive (fredwah.ca), originally spearheaded by Susan Rudy. He is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University where he works on contemporary poetics and the social production of space.

Deanna Fong is the author of Butcher's Block (Pistol, 2008). She is also PhD student at Simon Fraser University, where she sifts through the recorded conversations of other poets from 1959 to 1989, so ask her if you want some dirt on your favourite authors.

Cameron Anstee lives and writes in Ottawa ON where he runs Apt. 9 Press and is pursuing a PhD studying Canadian literature at the University of Ottawa. He is the editor of The Collected Poems of William Hawkins (Chaudiere Books, 2015).

Jessi MacEachern is a PhD student at the Unversite de Montreal, where she studies the feminist poetics of modernist and contemporary writers. She received her MA from Concordia University in Creative Writing. Her poetry and criticism has previously been published in CV2, Lemonhound and Matrix.

Jason Camlot is the author of four collections of poetry: The Animal Library, Attention All Typewriters, The Debaucher, and most recently, What The World Said. His critical works include Language Acts (co-edited with Todd Swift) and Style and the Nineteenth-Century British Critic: Sincere Mannerisms. His poems and critical essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies including New American Writing, Postmodern Culture and English Literary History. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford. Camlot is poetry editor of the Punchy Writers Series (DC Books), and Associate Dean in the Faculty of Arts and Science at Concordia University.

philip miletic is a writer, dabbling in a little bit of vispo, and is currently in his second year of his English PhD at the University of Waterloo. His work includes the pamphlet silver, the chapbook world 1-1 co-written with Craig Dodman, a short story chapbook and the birds sing, and a forthcoming chapbook from wordsonpages called mother2earth. He lives in Kitchener, ON.