some author activity: mclennan, Brink, Mody + Chadwick,

rob mclennan has a new poem up at his blog, and a video online of him reading to promote his upcoming online event via Vancouver's Poets Corner Reading Series; Kōan Brink has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; Monica Mody is featured on The Beat: a poetry podcast; and Leigh Chadwick has new work up at The Airgonaut.

some author activity: Brink, Norris, Brenner, Earl, Paty + Naughton,

Kōan Anne Brink has some new work up in the Spotlight series; Ken Norris' recent reading for mouse eggs has been posted to YouTube; Summer Brenner participates in the '12 or 20 questions' interview series; Amanda Earl is interviewed in the 6th episode of the podcast Babel Parish Radio; and Allyson Paty recommends some reading at Katie Naughton's Etcetera.

new from above/ground press: The End of Lake Superior, by Kōan Anne Brink

The End of Lake Superior
Kōan Anne Brink
$5

The End of Lake Superior

It was
    cool and dark,
azalea in bloom
at the edge

of the forest.
The raw silk of it
    peeking out
from its

heavily ironed
dress shirt.

Still more surface
    area than flowing
water, it was
hard to live by glacial

repose alone.
The visible saints
    drifting again

into imitation,
into the world’s late

afternoon.

We buried ourselves
at her bequest.

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

Kōan Anne Brink was born and raised in Minnesota. They are the Art Writing Fellow at The Cooper Union and a lay ordained Sōtō Zen student. They live in Santa Fe.

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