some author activity: Mellis, Munson, Christie, Brockwell, Niespodziany + Levy,

Miranda Mellis is interviewed over at Tricycle; Jed Munson has new work up at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month, as does Jason Christie (a poem for Stephen Brockwell), Benjamin Niespodziany has new work up at The Bulb Region; and John Levy has new work up at The Pi Review.

some author activity: McNair, mclennan, Norris, Sweeney, Munson, Novak + Ross,

Christine McNair is interviewed by Hollay Ghadery for the New Books Network podcast; rob mclennan has a new poem up at NewPoetry.ca, and an interview conducted by Victoria Cole for Horseshoe Literary Journal; Ken Norris has an excerpt of a memoir up at The Typescript; Heather Sweeney now has a substack; Jed Munson and JoAnna Novak have new work in DIAGRAM; and did you know that Stuart Ross' Proper Tales Press is now on Instagram?

some author activity: Reid, Logan, Higdon, Houbolt + Munson,

Monty Reid is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Nate Logan has new work up at Otoliths, as well as Leavings; Hailey Higdon wrote an article on mothering for Nashville Scene; forthcoming author Kyla Houbolt has a prose poem up at Idle Ink; and Jed Munson answers the '12 and 20 questions.'

new from above/ground press: Silts, by Jed Munson

Silts
Jed Munson
$5

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O eye
 of uprightness, the graphic presence
on my shoulder conceals
I’m wincer,
Grown of moonlegs—
I
umber. Suspicions are buildings, Sweetheart,
petals,
 imploding
into categories. Like when oil rainbows tell me
you’re leaving
for the lack
of town, how I split
    An apple
with
 A doe in the grove we never settled

on. How questions
pressure what moroseness
proudly presents:
Glance gone wrong:

long sequences of feeding
as these lines over-
pronate,
politely step down to part-
time
 copperstrippers.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
June 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover image/design: Kyuwon Kim.
The cover image nods to Park Seobo’s (박서보) Ecriture (‘묘법’) No. 21 (1974).

Jed Munson’s first chapbook, Newsflash Under Fire, Over the Shoulder, was published with Ugly Duckling Presse in 2021. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, P-QUEUE, Full Stop, and others.

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