some author activity: benedict, Robinson, Pittella, Logan, Smallfield, Boughn + Trivedi,

alex benedict is zoom-interviewed on his periodicities essay, the poetics of Rilke, Celan, etc.; Ben Robinson is interviewed via All Lit Up; Carlos A. Pittella has a new poem on the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month; Nate Logan has new work up at Community Mausoleum; Edward Smallfield also has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog; the video of Michael Boughn's recent Toronto reading is now online at YouTube; and Amish Trivedi now has a substack.

some author activity: Boyle, Coulton, Smallfield, Norris, Logan, Notley, Shea + Hyland,

Frances Boyle has new work up at Briefly Zine, as well as Roi Faineant; Valerie Coulton has new work up at talking about strawberries all of the time, as does Edward Smallfield and Ken Norris, and even Nate Logan is interviewed; Alice Notley has new work up in The Tiny, as does MC Hyland and Michael Martin Shea.

some author activity: Coulton, Smallfield, Downs, Stuart, O'Reilly, Weaver + Solomon,

Valerie Coulton is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, as is Edward Smallfield, Buck Downs, and Cecilia Stuart; Nathanael O'Reilly has a new poem up at Crow of Minerva; and National Poetry Month has begun over at the Chaudiere Books blog, with new poems by, among others, Andy Weaver and Misha Solomon!

new from above/ground press: a journal of the plague year, by Edward Smallfield

a journal of the plague year
Edward Smallfield
$5

meditations in an emergency

1 reading Defoe—A Journal of the Plague Year

2 fare Boccaccio

3 spring sun the same

4 color as

5 ‘locked down’

6 ‘high alert’

7 in the isolation chamber

8 the higher pitched

9 ambient sound here

10 the lower pitched

11 just what you thought: an interior

12 a broken flowering

13 & dust &

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Edward Smallfield is the author of The Pleasures of C, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (with Doug MacPherson), equinox, and to whom it may concern. He is also the author of several chapbooks: locate (with Miriam Pirone) and lirio and anonymous (both with Valerie Coulton) and, most recently, americana (from above/ground press). His poems have appeared in Denver Quarterly, e-poema.eu, Five Fingers Review, New American Writing, Páginas Rojas, parentheses, Parthenon West Review, talking about strawberries all the time, where is the river: a poetry experiment, 26, Wicked Alice, and many other magazines and websites. He has participated in poetry conferences in Delphi, Paou, Paros, and Sofia, and lives in Barcelona with his wife, the poet Valerie Coulton.

This is Smallfield’s second chapbook with above/ground press, after americana (2018).

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: Smallfield, Coulton, Downs, Hunter, Sikkema + Earl,

; Edward Smallfield has some new poems up at talking about strawberries all of the time, as do Valerie Coulton and Buck Downs and Carrie Hunter and Michael Sikkema; Amanda Earl has a new poem up at The Babel Tower Notice Board, and is interviewed over at Cannot Predict Now.

some author activity: Barwin, mclennan, Smallfield, Birchard + Etherin,

Gary Barwin has a new poem up at Burning House Press; rob mclennan was interviewed in Paul Brookes' Wombwell Rainbow Interviews series; Edward Smallfield has new poems posted at The LiT magazine; forthcoming author Guy Birchard is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions: series; and Anthony Etherin has new work up at Burning House Press.

some author activity: Pirie, Prevost, Robinson, Dyckman, Coulton, Smallfield, Wilkinson + Banu,

there is new collaborative work in the tenth issue of where is the river by above/ground press authors Pearl Pirie and Roland Prevost, Elizabeth Robinson and Susanne Dyckman, and Valerie Coulton and Edward Smallfield; Joshua Marie Wilkinson has a poem online via the Poetry Foundation; and forthcoming author Simina Banu has an essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

new from above/ground press: americana, by Edward Smallfield

americana
Edward Smallfield
$5

higher education

bent sentences. open
windows breathe spring
scents. eucalyptus, rhodo
dendron. syllables. morph
emes, phonemes. taste
& texture, selected
for. on the fifth
floor of life a distant
music, the bruised
brass of a marching
band. in the base
ment, under the table,
spilled DNA stains
silken thighs & lips
& nights. ‘spooky
action at a distance”
hasn’t been invented
or discovered yet.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Edward Smallfield is the author of The Pleasures of C and equinox, and the co-author of several collaborative projects, One Hundred Views of Edo (with Doug MacPherson), locate (with Miriam Pirone), and lirio and anonymous (both with Valerie Coulton). His poems have appeared in alice blue, Barcelona INK, bird dog, Calibanonline, Touch the Donkey, e-poema.eu, New American Writing, Five Fingers Review, Páginas Rojas, Parthenon West Review, Spotlight, 26, Wicked Alice, and many other magazines and websites. He lives in Barcelona with his wife, the poet Valerie Coulton.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com