new from above/ground press: metric: a collaboration of small poems by Lea Graham and rob mclennan

metric

by Lea Graham + rob mclennan

$4

published in Ottawa by above/ground press in an edition of 250 copies.

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

write for submission/subscription info, c/o 858 Somerset

Street West, main floor, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7,

or check out rob_mclennan@hotmail.com or abovegroundpress.blogspot.com

These poems were composed March 24 + 26, 2006 in Ottawa at Pubwell’s Restaurant, 96 Preston Street. Some have appeared previously in The Capilano Review’s collaboration issue and online at robmclennan.blogspot.com.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2 & in US $) to rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7.

Lea Graham’s first book of poems, Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You, is forthcoming summer of 2011 through No Tell Books. Her poems, collaborations, reviews and articles have been published in or are forthcoming in journals such as Notre Dame Review, American Letters & Commentary, American Poetry Journal and Sentence. Recently, her work was included in the anthology, Gatherings: Fifteen Poems/Poets, through Haybarn Press. She has translations forthcoming in The Alteration of Silence: Recent Chilean Poetry through the University of New Orleans Press. She is currently Assistant Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee and grew up in Northwest Arkansas. Her first poetry chapbook, Calendar Girls, was published by above/ground press in March 2006.

Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011), kate street (Moira, 2011), 52 flowers (or, a perth edge) (Obvious Epiphanies, 2010) and wild horses (2010), and a second novel, missing persons (2009). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review (ottawater.com/garneaureview), seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics (ottawater.com/seventeenseconds) and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater (ottawater.com). He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Monty Reid’s In the Garden (sept series)

1. September

All the stems

are hollow.

It’s how the dead

breathe

there

in the anonymous ground

waiting for us

to go away. 

In the Garden (sept series)

by Monty Reid

$3

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

in an edition of 250 copies, March 2011

a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

write for submission/subscription info, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa ON K1R 6R7,

or check out rob_mclennan@hotmail.com or abovegroundpress.blogspot.com

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2 & in US $) to rob mclennan, 858 Somerset Street West, main floor, Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7.

Monty Reid is an Ottawa writer. Among his many books are Disappointment Island (Chaudiere), Lost in the owl Woods (BookThug), The Luskville Reductions (Brick) and A Poem that Ends with Murder (Apt 9). In the Garden (sept series) is the first unit of a year-long series of poems that have grown out of his backyard garden [see his January unit here]. Until recently, Monty Reid was Director of Exhibitions at the Canadian Museum of Nature. He now works in the garden full time.

And watch for Monty Reid's lecture on poetry as part of Ottawa's first annual VERSeFest Poetry Festival (with Marcus McCann) on March 11!

above/ground press: Aurian Haller, Brenda Leifso + Teresa Yang reading, March 25‏

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) & above/ground press present:
three poets

with readings by:

Aurian Haller (Quebec City)
Brenda Leifso
Teresa Yang (Ottawa)

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan

Friday, March 25, 2011;
doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm
The Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)
 

Poet and singer-songwriter, Aurian Haller, lives in Quebec City with his wife and two children.  He is a National Magazine Award winner for 2007, and co-winner of the 2007 Malahat Review Long Poem Prize.  Aurian’s work has also received prizes or been nominated for awards such as the Arc Poetry Magazine’s Poem of the Year contest and the CBC Literary awards.  His poems have been published in Canada, the U.S., Ireland, and Australia.  Aurian’s first book, A Dream of Sulphur, was published in 2000 by McGill-Queen’s University Press.  Song of the Taxidermist will be published by Goose Lane Editions in the spring of 2011.  Much of Aurian’s earlier work drew from his experiences growing up in rural BC.  More recently Aurian has focused on the long poem and explored a range of fields such as Taxidermy, Glossogeny (the origin of language), and the work of Canadian visual artists.  He is presently researching for The Diggers, his next book of long poems on archaeology in the high Arctic.  In addition to poetry, Aurian writes music for and performs with his alternative folk band, The Aurian Haller Band (www.theaurianhallerband.ca).  He also works as an arts consultant and music teacher for the Anglophone school board in Quebec City.

Brenda Leifso has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and was the executive editor of PRISM international. Her poetry has appeared in many journals, and has received the Bliss Carman Banff Centre Award for Poetry, as well as awards in the Vancouver International Writers' Festival Writing Contest. Her first poetry collection, Daughters of Men, appeared with Brick Books in 2008. She currently lives in Ottawa.    

Chuqiao (Teresa) Yang (pictured) lives somewhere in Ottawa and is currently learning how to learn. she likes reading, songs, and pacing. She has work appearing in recent issues of Grain, ottawater, filling Station and on CBC Saskatchewan.