Words on the Water / Murmures sur l’eau, eds./dir. David O’Meara and/et Véronique Sylvain,

Words on the Water / Murmures sur l’eau
eds./dir. David O’Meara and/et Véronique Sylvain
Poète officielle francophone et poète officiel anglophone de la Ville d’Ottawa
Poets Laureate, Francophone and Anglophone, The City of Ottawa
translations by/traductions de Myriam Legault-Beauregard
$10

including new poems in English (alongside French translation) and new poems in French (alongside English translation) by:

Jean Marc Dalpé
David Galvaude
Harold Hoefle
Christine McNair
Sarah Migneron
stephanie roberts
Alexis Rodrigue-Lafleur
Mahaila Smith


Introduction

J’ai la conviction que la poésie peut nous inciter à regarder les lieux qui nous entourent et à prendre conscience des liens (précieux) qui nous unissent. De l’enfance, à l’adolescence, jusqu’à l’âge adulte, la nature a toujours occupé une place importante dans ma vie (et dans ma poésie !). 

Des lacs et des rivières du Nord de l’Ontario, au fleuve Saint-Laurent, jusqu’à la rivière des Outaouais, ces éléments naturels nourrissent, depuis longtemps, mon paysage intérieur et mon écriture. 

Ces exemples de cours d’eau sont essentiels dans l’équilibre des écosystèmes. La poésie, je crois, peut contribuer à sensibiliser toutes et tous à la grande beauté, à la fragilité palpable de ces écosystèmes.

Après le succès, en 2025, de la première édition du projet que David O’Meara et moi avons coordonné avec Garde-rivière des Outaouais, nous avons eu l’idée de replonger dans l’aventure et d’inviter à nouveau huit poètes – quatre francophones et quatre anglophones – à créer un poème original inspiré du bassin versant de la rivière des Outaouais.

Ces voix poétiques retentiront comme un écho, d’une rive à une autre...

Introduction

I strongly believe that poetry can make us observe our surroundings and notice the invaluable relationships between us all. As a child, as a teenager, and still as an adult, I always reserved a special place for nature in my life (and in my poetry!)

From the lakes and rivers of Northern Ontario to the Saint-Lawrence River, with the Ottawa River in between, these natural features have—for a long time—nourished my inner landscape, and the way I write.

These waterways are essential to the balance of our ecosystems. Poetry, I think, can make us all aware of the great beauty, as well as the utmost fragility of these ecosystems.

Building on the success of the first edition of the project David O’Meara and I coordinated in 2025 with Ottawa Riverkeeper, we decided to dive anew in this adventure and to invite eight other poets—four francophones and four anglophones—to create an original poem inspired by the Ottawa River watershed.

These poetic voices will resonate, like echoes, from one shore to the other…

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
produced for an event at the Ottawa River Boathouse, September 2, 6-8pm [see ticket information here]

Ce recueil est le troisième ouvrage collectif bilingue dirigé par David O’Meara et Véronique Sylvain à paraître chez above/ground press dans le cadre de leur mandat comme poètes officiels de la ville d’Ottawa. Il fait suite à Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage (2025) et à Words and Image / Entre mots et images (2026), avec des traductions réalisées par Myriam Legault-Beauregard. À cette sélection s’ajoute également Planting Seeds : Fletcher Garden Poems (2026), en anglais seulement, qui a été dirigé par David O’Meara.

This is David O’Meara’s and Véronique Sylvain’s third bilingual edited title through above/ground press, all part of their tenure as Ottawa’s English-language and French-language Poet Laureates, following Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage (2025) and Words and Image / Entre mots et images (2026), both of which included translations by Myriam Legault-Beauregard. Also available is David O’Meara’s Planting Seeds: Fletcher Garden Poems (2026), in English only.

Author biographies/Notices biographiques:

Jean Marc Dalpé est auteur dramatique, romancier, poète, scénariste, traducteur et comédien. Trois fois lauréat du Prix du Gouverneur général, il a traduit des œuvres contemporaines ainsi que Shakespeare, Brecht et des œuvres autochtones majeures. Codirecteur artistique du Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont, il est l’auteur de nombreuses pièces marquantes. Docteur honoris causa de l’Université d’Ottawa, il est membre de l’Ordre du Canada et de l’Ordre des francophones d’Amérique.

A playwright, novelist, poet, scriptwriter, translator and actor, Jean Marc Dalpé is a three-times winner of the Governor General’s Literary Awards. He has translated contemporary works, as well as Shakespeare, Brecht and major Indigenous voices. He was one of the artistic directors of the Wild West Show de Gabriel Dumont, and has authored many remarkable plays. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ottawa, and he is a member of the Order of Canada and of the Ordre des francophones d’Amérique.

David Galvaude a déjà habité en face de la rivière Kitchissippi. Il a publié deux recueils de poésie (Démonologie de jardin, La Note Verte, 2022, et Pigeon rouge, La Maison en feu, 2025). Il a aussi été publié dans Estuaire et a autopublié plusieurs zines. Depuis 2024, il co-organise la soirée poésie Une pinte ou un vers à la brasserie À la Dérive à Gatineau.

David Galvaude used to live right in front of the Kitchissippi River. He is the author of two poetry collections (Démonologie de jardin, La Note Verte, 2022, and Pigeon rouge, La Maison en feu, 2025). His poetry is also featured in the magazine Estuaire, and he is the creator of several zines. Since 2024, he co-organizes the monthly Une pinte ou un vers poetry readings in Gatineau, at the brewery À la Dérive.

Harold Hoefle's debut collection of poems, The Night Chorus, was published by McGill-Queen's University Press.  His chapbook, Leaning In, has just been published by above/ground press.  Harold lives in Ottawa.

Le premier recueil de poèmes d’Harold Hoefle, The Night Chorus, est paru aux presses universitaire McGill-Queen’s. Son court recueil Leaning In vient d’être publié chez above/ground press. Harold vit à Ottawa.

Christine McNair is the author of two books of poetry and a hybrid poetic memoir, Toxemia (2024). Her work has been shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman award, the City of Ottawa book award, the Robert Kroetsch award for innovative poetry, and the Relit award. Her book Charm (2017) won the Archibald Lampman award. She works as a book doctor in Ottawa.

Christine McNair est l’autrice de deux livres de poésie et de Toxemia, des mémoires poétiques hybrides. Ses livres ont été finalistes au prix Archibald-Lampman, au Prix du livre d’Ottawa, au prix Robert-Kroetsch pour la poésie innovante ainsi qu’au prix Relit. Son œuvre Charm (2017) a remporté le prix Archibald-Lampman. Son travail consiste à soigner des livres, à Ottawa.

Sarah Migneron est une autrice et traductrice d’Ottawa. Elle écrit pour les publics de tous âges. Ses textes de théâtre jeunesse comprennent Mots de jeux (VOX Théâtre, 2017), Dans tous les sens (VOX Théâtre, 2019 ; Prise de Parole, 2025), Jaune comme joie (VOX Théâtre, 2025) et Quand maman sourit (Le Théâtrophone, 2024; L’UniThéâtre, 2025). Pour les adultes, elle signe À tu et à moi (L’Atelier, 2013 ; Prise de parole, 2015) et Maman bleue (Prise de Parole, 2025).

Sarah Migneron is an author and translator from Ottawa who writes for people of all ages. Her plays for young audiences include Mots de jeux (VOX Théâtre, 2017), Dans tous les sens (VOX Théâtre, 2019 ; Prise de Parole, 2025), Jaune comme joie (VOX Théâtre, 2025) and Quand maman sourit (Le Théâtrophone, 2024; L’UniThéâtre, 2025). For older audiences, she wrote À tu et à moi (L’Atelier, 2013 ; Prise de parole, 2015) and Maman bleue (Prise de Parole, 2025).  

stephanie roberts is the prize-winning author of UNMET and rushes from the river disappointment. She has never been featured in Best Canadian Poetry.

stephanie roberts est une autrice primée à qui l’on doit les recueils UNMET et rushes from the river disappointment. Elle n’a jamais fait partie de l’anthologie Best Canadian Poetry.

Né à Montréal, Alexis Rodrigue-Lafleur a fait des études en muséologie et en français écrit, a habité en Bolivie, au Maroc et au Vietnam. Il réside actuellement en Outaouais et travaille au Musée des beaux-arts du Canada. Il a publié deux romans, L’odeur du gruau (2018) et Rêve-creux (2021), aux Éditions L’Interligne. Sa poésie émerge ici et là sous différents formats au gré des saisons.

Born in Montréal, Alexis Rodrigue-Lafleur has an academic background in French and Museum Studies. He has lived in Bolivia, Morrocco and Vietnam. He now lives in the Outaouais region and works for the National Gallery of Canada. He is the author of two novels: L’odeur du gruau (2018) and Rêve-creux (2021), published by the Éditions L’Interligne. His poetry emerges here and there, in different forms, throughout the seasons.

Mahaila Smith (they/them) is the author of the speculative novelette-in-verse, Seed Beetle, published by Stelliform Press in 2025. You can find more of their work on their website: mahailasmith.ca.

Mahaila Smith (iel/ellui) a écrit Seed Beetle, une novella en vers publiée chez Stelliform Press en 2025. Pour en savoir plus sur ses œuvres, visitez le site mahailasmith.ca.

David O’Meara is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently A Pretty Sight and Masses On Radar (Coach House Books, 2013, 2021). His novel, Chandelier, is published by Nightwood Editions (2024). He is the current Poet Laureate (Anglophone) of the City of Ottawa.

David O’Meara est l’auteur de cinq recueils de poésie, dont les plus récents sont A Pretty Sight et On Radar (Coach House Books, 2013 et 2021). Son roman, intitulé Chandelier, a été publié chez Nightwood Editions en 2024. Il est actuellement le poète officiel anglophone de la Ville d'Ottawa.

Véronique Sylvain habite à Ottawa, où elle travaille dans le milieu de l’édition. Ses poèmes ont paru dans plusieurs revues de création littéraire, ainsi que dans des collectifs. Son premier recueil, Premier quart (Prise de parole, 2019), lui a permis de remporter le Prix de poésie de Trillium, le Prix du livre d’Ottawa, en 2020, le prix Champlain et le Prix littéraire émergence AAOF 2021. Son plus récent recueil de poésie, En terrain miné, est paru en septembre 2024 chez Prise de parole. Elle occupera, jusqu’à l’automne 2027, le poste de poète officielle francophone de la Ville d’Ottawa

Véronique Sylvain lives in Ottawa, where she works in the publishing sector. Her poems appear in several literary journals and collectives. Thanks to her first collection, Premier quart (Prise de parole, 2019), she was rewarded with the Prix de poésie Trillium and the Prix du livre d'Ottawa, in 2020, as well as the prix Champlain and the Prix littéraire émergence AAOF, in 2021. Her most recent collection, En terrain miné, also published by Prise de parole, was launched in September 2024, She will be, until fall 2027, the Francophone Poet Laureate of the City of Ottawa.

Myriam Legault-Beauregard est traductrice, poète et slameuse. Elle termine actuellement son doctorat à l’Université d’Ottawa. Ses propres créations et certaines de ses traductions ont été publiées dans diverses revues, et son premier recueil de poésie, intitulé Comme un myosotis, est paru en septembre 2023. Sa première traduction de roman, De plâtre et de platine (version française de The Most Precious Substance on Earth de Shashi Bhat), a été finaliste au prix John-Glassco. Elle vit à Gatineau avec son conjoint et leurs deux filles.

Myriam Legault-Beauregard is a translator, a poet and a spoken-word artist. She is currently completing her PhD at the University of Ottawa. Her own works and shorter translations have been published in various magazines and journals, and her first poetry collection, Comme un myosotis, was launched in September 2023. Her first book-length translation, De plâtre et de platine (French version of Shashi Bhat’s The Most Precious Substance on Earth), was a finalist to the John-Glassco prize. She lives in Gatineau with her partner and their two children.

To order, send cheques (add $2 for postage; in US, add $3; outside North America, add $7) 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

report: the above/ground press 33rd anniversary reading/launch/party!

Happy anniversary! The thirty-third anniversary reading/launch/party occurred over the weekend at Anina’s Café in Vanier (a space of which I am becoming increasingly fond). Thirty-three years! And nearly fifteen hundred publications-to-date, by the by [don't forget the current anniversary sale, happening for but a few more days]. Do you recall my report from last year's event? Or the year prior? With readings and launches of new above/ground press titles by Stephanie Bolster (Montreal), Mark Goldstein (Toronto), Cara Goodwin (Ottawa), Sonja Greckol (Toronto), Harold Hoefle (Ottawa), James Spyker (Toronto) and Grant Wilkins (Ottawa). The crowd for this event was impressive (with some notable absences, due to travel etc), with the occasional above/ground press author and editor sprinkled throughout, including Cameron Anstee, Frances Boyle, Ottawa's current English-language poet laureate, David O'Meara, and Tamara Fairchild (above/ground press produced a chapbook of hers back in 1997, don't forget), as well as artist and photographer Paul Elter, Ottawa writer Matthew Firth and visual artist Daniel Sharp, among others.

Armed with broken foot and accompanying boot, Montreal-based poet and editor Stephanie Bolster opened by launching the recent twentieth anniversary edition of her above/ground press title, BIODÔME, a title originally produced through the press way back in 2006. This new edition was actually prompted by Montreal poet Misha Solomon, who had worked his own chapbook-length response to Bolster's work, and his chapbook-response was produced simultaneously to Bolster's new edition, which also holds an introduction by Solomon [see his introduction to such here; see Bolster's afterword to the collection here]. In case you don't recall, above/ground press actually produced Bolster's solo debut, the chapbook Three Bloody Words, back in 1996, and it was rather terrifying to realize that it has now been ten years since we produced the twentieth anniversary edition of that particular title. 

The second reader was Ottawa-based poet Cara Goodwin, a poet barely a year or so older than the press itself, which does tend to make one feel ancient. After Bolster's reading, it was very exciting to counterpoint such an established writer against a chapbook debut, as Goodwin was launching her new chapbook, Map of What Was Taken, a title that had been in the works for some time. Clearly, Goodwin is a poet worth paying attention to.

The third reader was Toronto poet, editor and publisher Mark Goldstein, launching his own above/ground press debut, The Common Dark, a chapbook-length section of a poetry title he has forthcoming soon (hopefully later this year). How many years have I been soliciting Goldstein for a manuscript? Oh, too many to count (but the wait was completely worth it). I look forward to seeing how this particular title fits into the larger context of something book-length.

The next reader was Toronto poet and translator Sonja Greckol, who landed in town to launch a slightly older title, Dark Matter —Sonja Greckol translation, Materia Oscura—Rocío Céron, Dark Matter – Diverted—Sonja Greckol etranstranslation (2025), that appeared just around Christmas of last year [see the essay she wrote on translating such here] (a title that is soon to appear in a second printing). Part of what became remarkable about this event was that Greckol requested a Spanish speaker from the audience to read Céron's original text, and Goodwin's friend, Dan Josh, someone who claimed to have "no prior relationship to poetry," but read brilliantly! A remarkable blend of voices and considerations.

It was very good to hear Harold Hoefle, a (formerly Montreal-based) poet who recently retired from teaching at John Abbott College, especially given his recent relocation to Ottawa. Having a new chapbook, Leaning In, and him part of this launch felt a nice way to be able to welcome him to town, especially given the number of years he's been travelling in for the sake of multiple literary events, as well as social interactions with Ottawa writers (there's a poem in this new collection for the late Ottawa poet Michael Dennis, for example). Apparently Matthew Firth, back when he was a chapbook publisher, produced Hoefle's chapbook debut some twenty-plus years ago, which I didn't know. 

Toronto-based writer James Spyker and his work aren't the same locally-known quantity as they had been, back in the day, when he and I were part of running Ottawa's The TREE Reading Series in the mid-1990s (Spyker is also co-founder of the ottawa small press book fair, an event he recently started attending once more, as exhibitor). Given how long I've known him (I can't recall if we met five minutes prior to or following the creation of above/ground, which was less than a year prior to me joining TREE as one of the organizers/curators, back in June 1994), it was a bit surprising it took this long for his own above/ground press debut to appear, Bedtime stories for my imaginary friends, the thirty-fifth title produced as part of the press' ongoing prose/naut imprint. He purposefully read a single, slightly surreal prose-piece that hinted as an introduction for the final reader of the evening, Grant Wilkins. 

Ottawa writer, papermaker and quiet builder of complex sounds, shapes and phrases, Grant Wilkins launched what is his sixth above/ground press title produced over the past few years, provocations. Wilkins is another I've actually known since the earlier part of the 1990s, circa 1994, but has only moved into publishing his explorations through sound and text over the past few years, prompted in part through his participation in jwcurry's infamous Messagio Galore sound poetry choir. Wilkins' work [see a recent artist statement he wrote, here] blends the influence of the late American poet Jackson Mac Low with an engagement with sound, chance and play, merging texts and ideas with an unmatched ease and attention to detail.

Thanks so much to everyone to participated! And to Anina's for hosting us! There are already plans afoot, by the way, for some fall surprises (oh, and the 2027 subscriptions will be announcing soon, also; the same rates as this past year, methinks).

new from above/ground press: Leaning In, by Harold Hoefle

Leaning In
Harold Hoefle
$6

Cleansing

Sweep the dust
scrub the sink
wipe the dirt 
from the sill 
weed the weeds
taproot out
rake and bag 
winter leaves
split the wood 
stack it snug
gather chips
finger bleed
water boil 
anthill gone
rock raccoons
garden fight
then sit down
lick the beer
pick up phone
view again
mounds of stone 
smoke and flame
single mouth  
open, close
scroll on past. 

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

[Harold Hoefle launches Leaning In in Ottawa on August 22 as part of the above/ground press thirty-third anniversary reading/launch/party]

cover photo: Karen Rhodes

Harold Hoefle’s poems have won the Bliss Carman Award, the Great Blue Heron Poetry Award (2014), and a National Magazine Awards silver medal. His debut collection of poems, The Night Chorus, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. He has also published a collection of short-fiction called The Mountain Clinic (Oberon Press). Harold lives in Ottawa, teaches in Montreal.

To order, send cheques (add $2 for postage; in US, add $3; outside North America, add $7) 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

the above/ground press 33rd anniversary/reading/launch party! August 22, at Anina’s Café,

celebrating THIRTY-THREE YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly fifteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents:

readings and chapbook launches by:

Stephanie Bolster (Montreal), Mark Goldstein (Toronto), Cara Goodwin (Ottawa), Sonja Greckol (Toronto), Harold Hoefle (Ottawa), James Spyker (Toronto) + Grant Wilkins (Ottawa)

lovingly hosted by above/ground press editor/publisher rob mclennan
SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 2026 at Anina’s Café, 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way
7pm door/7:30pm reading
$10 at the door / cash or e-transfer / includes 2 chapbooks (of your choice!
[see the report here from last year’s event; and don't forget the 33rd anniversary sale, happening until September 1st!] 

Author biographies:

Stephanie Bolster’s latest book of poetry, Long Exposure, appeared with Palimpsest Press in fall 2025. Excerpts from the book were finalists for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2019. Bolster’s first book, White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award and was translated into French as Pierre Blanche. Her poems have also been translated into Spanish, German, and Serbo-Croatian. Editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and The Ishtar Gate: Last and Selected Poems by the late Ottawa poet Diana Brebner, and co-editor of Penned: Zoo Poems, she was born in Vancouver and grew up in Burnaby, BC. She has been a professor of creative writing at Concordia University since 2000 and lives in Pointe-Claire, Québec, on the Mohawk (Kanien’kehá:ka) territory of Skaniatara:ti.

Stephanie Bolster will be launching her fifth above/ground press title, BIODÔME: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (2026).

Born in Cold Lake, Alberta, on a rainy April day in 1992, Cara Goodwin is the daughter of a beautiful Cree mother and a doting military father. Her early years were shaped by movement across the plains: visits to her mother’s relations on reserve and months spent with her Kokum in British Columbia; a move to Oromocto, New Brunswick, at age eight, where she developed an East Coast sense of humour; and a relocation to Yellowknife at fifteen, where she lived until high school graduation.

After a year abroad in Australia at eighteen—where she briefly fancied herself a mysterious foreign waitress before finding work milking cows—Cara moved to Ottawa at nineteen for school. There, she became roommates with her future best friend and has built a chosen family of her own. Now thirty-four, and a proud member of Fort McMurray 468 First Nation, she is focused on deepening her connection to her Cree heritage and considering how to leave the planet in a better place for her nieces.

An Ottawa-based poet, her work has appeared in Bywords, flo. literary magazine, and Room. Over the past five years, she has received two Honourable Mentions for the John Newlove Award and was shortlisted for Room’s Annual Poetry Prize in 2023. In 2025 read as a featured performer for the Riverbed Reading Series, where her poems traced her ancestral roots across what is now called Canada. Cara holds a BA (Hons.) in Social Communications and has completed numerous writing diploma and certificate programs over the years.

Cara Goodwin will be launching her above/ground press debut, Map of What Was Taken (2026).

Mark Goldstein is a writer, editor, translator, and graphic artist. His work includes the serial poem Endlossong (forthcoming), his book-length translation of poems by Paul Celan, Thricelandium (2024), his translation of Kafka's novel, The Trial, as Her Process (2021), poems, essays, and interviews published as Part Thief, Part Carpenter (2021), his long poem, Form of Forms (2012), which was a finalist for the International Stiftung Buchkunst 2014 competition in Lipzig, as well as his poem collection, Tracelanguage: A Shared Breath (2010), and After Rilke (2008). Moreover, he co-edited AnyWord: A Festschrift for Phil Hall (2024), as well as the virtual anthology Paul Celan/100 (2020). He can be found online at markgoldstein.ca

Mark Goldstein will be launching his above/ground press debut, The Common Dark (2026).

Sonja Greckol lives in Tkaronto and is grateful for subways, LRTs and bike lanes wherever.  No Hay Linea En El Tiempo / No Line in Time (Manofalsa Press (Lima/Mexico City) is her latest book. She published Monitoring Station (2023), No Line in Time (2018), Skein of Days (2014) and Gravity Matters (2008). Monitoring Station was listed for the Robert Kroetsch Award, No Line in Time for the LCP Raymond P. Souster Award. Her long poem 'No Line in Time' won the 2017 Briar Patch Writing in the Margins Poetry Contest. Her translation of Rosío Cerón’s ‘Trances’ appeared in Jan 2025 Asymptote Journal and above/ground press published her translation of Cerón's Materia Oscura as Dark Matter, Dark Matter —Diverted. She is the founding poetry editor of Women and Environments International and a member of the Feminist Caucus (LCP). sonjagreckol.com

Sonja Greckol will be launching her above/ground press debut, Dark Matter, by Rosío Céron; translated/etranslated by Sonja Greckol (2025).

Harold Hoefle’s poems have won the Bliss Carman Award, the Great Blue Heron Poetry Award (2014), and a National Magazine Awards silver medal. His debut collection of poems, The Night Chorus, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press. He has also published a collection of short-fiction called The Mountain Clinic (Oberon Press). Harold lives in Ottawa, teaches in Montreal.

Harold Hoefle will be launching his above/ground press debut, Leaning In (2026).

James Spyker is a book and paper artist based in Toronto. He lives in that building where you visited your great aunt when you were a kid. He occasionally returns to writing when blank pages become too much to bear.

James Spyker will be launching his above/ground press debut, Bedtime stories for my imaginary fans (2026).

Grant Wilkins is an occasional poet, printer and papermaker who has made a practice of doing strange things to other people’s words. He has degrees in History & Classical Civilization and in English, and he’s working on another one in Art History. He lives in Ottawa on the unceded and unsurrendered land of the Algonquin Anishinaabe people.

Grant Wilkins will be launching his sixth above/ground press chapbook, provocations (2026).

 

some author activity: Hoefle, Zhang, Trivedi, Paige, Oniță + Webb,

forthcoming author Harold Hoefle is interviewed via Chaudiere Books in the "six questions" series; Elena Zhang is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Amish Trivedi has new work at autocorrect; Salem Paige has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Adriana Oniță is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Lindsey Webb is named a finalist for this year's Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, hosted by The Georgia Review.

save the date! above/ground press thirty-three: anniversary reading,

readings and new (recent) chapbooks by Stephanie Bolster, Mark Goldstein, Cara Goodwin, Harold Hoefle, Grant Wilkins (and most likely a couple of others); more information soon,

Saturday, August 22, 2026
7pm door / 7:30pm reading
Anina’s Café, 280 Joffre-Bélanger Way, Ottawa

slight door cover, but will include copies of two above/ground press titles of your choice!

keep in mind, 2026 subscriptions are still available, yes? totally willing to backdate,

and don't forget the above/ground press thirty-third anniversary sale, happening through to September 1st!