above/ground press at Word on the Street, Toronto + Vancouver; September 24,

above/ground press will be represented at both the Toronto and Vancouver editions of this year's Word on the Street! Thanks much to WOTS, as well as The League of Canadian Poets, for their continued support:

Toronto: Head on over to The League of Canadian Poets booth, Writers Block Table 12, and pick up a copy of an above/ground press broadside! I really dug through the archives for this one, pulling out poems published throughout the past fifteen years, and there will be a whole mound of poems and authors to choose from, including poems old and new by derek beaulieu, Sandra Ridley, rob mclennan, Eric Schmaltz, Fred Wah, Gwendolyn Guth and a slew of others. Get them while supplies last!

Vancouver: Stephen Collis will be reading as part of the Vancouver launch of his chapbook FIRST SKETCH OF A POEM I WILL NOT HAVE WRITTEN! He, of course, will have copies of the chapbook on-hand for anyone interested.

WORD Vancouver: Collis, Saklikar + timewell,

[l-r: timewell, Greco, Saklikar + Collis] In case you missed it, Stephen Collis (NEW LIFE), lary timewell (Odds Are/tones employed as loss) and Renée Sarojini Saklikar (After the Battle of Kingsway, the bees) read this past Sunday as part of a WORD Vancouver above/ground press event, lovingly hosted by Heidi Greco, who was kind enough to pass along a photo. Wishing I could have been there! And of course, all of their above/ground press items are still very much available!

above/ground press at WORD Vancouver, September 25, 2016: Collis, Saklikar + timewell,

Stephen Collis, lary timewell and Renée Sarojini Saklikar will be launching their new above/ground press titles in Vancouver, British Columbia as part of WORD Vancouver on Sunday, September 25, 2016!

ABOVE/GROUND PRESS READINGS (Host: Heidi Greco)
4:15 pm Stephen Collis (Adopted by: book’mark, The Library Store)
New Life (above/ground press $4.00)
4:20 pm Renée Sarojini Saklikar (Adopted by: Hager Books)
After the Battle of Kingsway, the bees (above/ground press $4.00)
4:25 pm lary timewell
Odds Are (above/ground press $4.00)

copies of the three titles will be available in limited numbers on site, and of course, are still available for order.

other above/ground press authors participating this year include ryan fitzpatrick (author of, most recently, the 2015 title dealingwithit.gif) and Jordan Abel (author of the 2013 title Scientia) (both of which are still in print).

for further details, including a full schedule of participating authors and where they'll be, check out the WORD Vancouver website, here.

Mark Cochrane at Vancouver's Word on the Street, September 29, 2013

above/ground press author Mark Cochrane launches his chapbook Cat. (above/ground press, 2012) as part of the 2013 edition of Vancouver's Word on the Street at Liberty Square, Sunday, September 29th. He will be reading to open The Poetry Tent at 11:00am.

Other readers at The Poetry Tent throughout the day include Kim Minkus, Jen Currin, Christine Leclerc, George Stanley, Peter Culley and Brad Cran.

Copies of Cochrane's Cat. are still available, here.

For more information on Vancouver's Word on the Street festival, check out http://wordvancouver.ca