Some author activity: Babineau, Armantrout;

Recent above/ground press author Kemeny Babineau answers the "On Writing" interview over at Open Book: Ontario, and Rae Armantrout will be interviewed by Mitchell Caplan on Click Here, CHUO-FM89, on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 at 5pm, anticipating her upcoming reading at VERSeFest.

some author activity: Blouin, Mangold, Ladouceur, mclennan, Brockwell;

Some more author activity: anticipating his chapbook launch tonight, Michael Blouin answers the "At the Desk" interview series over at Open Book: Ontario; Sarah Mangold gets her own "12 or 20 questions" interview, and a new e-book with little red leaves; Ben Ladouceur now has his own blog, so you can keep better track of his doings; and rob mclennan and Stephen Brockwell read on February 24, 2012 at UL-Lafayette as part of Deep South.

some author activity: Young, Carr, Martin, Armantrout + Ackerson-Kiely;

See what some of our authors are doing! Deanna Young was interviewed over at Open Book: Ontario, in anticipation of her chapbook launch on Friday; Emily Carr's Conversation Hearts for the Chinese New Year: A California Lyric, a photo essay/love poem, is live & online at www.ifshedrawsadoor.com; Collage: An interview with Camille Martin is now online at Amanda Earl's AngelHousePress; Rae Armantrout discusses her work and poetics in an interview over at PBS; and Paige Ackerson-Kiely posts this book trailer for her second trade poetry collection, just in time for her appearances at AWP and VERSeFest!

new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #16: VERSeFest special!

The Peter F Yacht Club #16: VERSeFest special!
edited by rob mclennan
[see the link here for information on the previous issue]
[see the link here for a history of the publication]
$6

With new writing by a host of Peter F Yacht Club regulars and irregulars, as well as a number of VERSeFest participants, including Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Cameron Anstee, Rae Armantrout, Stephen Brockwell, Anita Dolman, Amanda Earl, Laurie Fuhr, Lea Graham, Gwendolyn Guth, Marilyn Irwin, Ben Ladouceur, Tim Lilburn, Barry McKinnon, rob mclennan, Christine McNair, James K. Moran, Sean Moreland, Pearl Pirie, Monty Reid, Shane Rhodes, Janice Tokar and Fred Wah.

Produced as part of Ottawa’s second annual VERSeFest poetry festival, which runs from February 28 to March 4, 2012.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

above/ground press at AWP, Chicago, with a new rob mclennan chapbook

Goldfish: studies in fine thread,
rob mclennan

Produced for the sake of FREE DISTRIBUTION at the Association of Writers and Writers Programs Conference, March 2-4, 2012, in Chicago Il (table i20). Thanks much to the dusie kollektiv, Black Radish Books, Marthe Reed and Laura Goldstein for assistance (see facebook invitation to find the table and reading event here!).

Otherwise, to order a copy: $4

For Christine McNair; originally written and produced in an edition of one copy for our first anniversary, November 5, 2011. Remember, remember.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive complimentary copies

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 grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), 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

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Excerpts from Impossible Books, The Crawdad Cantos, by Stephen Brockwell

Excerpts from Impossible Books
The Crawdad Cantos
by Stephen Brockwell
$4

from The Evangelical Handbook for Engineers

A Primer for Drainage

What is the first article and axiom of our discipline?
That God made the Earth, the sun and moon, the stars
and everything that lives in and on his chosen sphere.
Therefore, no calculus of planetary orbits disproves
his dominion, no quantum mechanical uncertainty
casts doubt on his eternity, unlike the life of a cat in a box.
The testimony of experts does not negate his Testament.
He is the universal pendulum, the platinum-iridium bar,
the krypton-86 emission in a vacuum, the beam of light from which
a tiny moment measures out our microcosmic span.
Among time and distances, he is the absolute constant,
the being that lets being be – and every culvert,
aqueduct, conduit, sluice, grate, trench and duct
merely drains the ephemeral projection of his eternal tears.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

produced for a reading with rob mclennan in Louisiana as part of the Deep South Festival of Writers at UL-Lafayette on February 24, 2012.

Stephen Brockwell is the author of 4 books of poems. Fruitfly Geographic won the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award for the best book of poetry by an Ottawa writer. His Excerpts from Impossible Books is an interminable work in progress. Brockwell runs the small business www.brockwellit.com from his basement, borrowed office space and coffee shops.

This is Stephen Brockwell’s third above/ground press chapbook. Limited copies of his Marin County Poems (2001) and Impossible Books (the Carleton Installment) (2010) are still available, at $3 and $4, respectively.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Cupcake Royale, by Sarah Mangold

Cupcake Royale
by Sarah Mangold
$4

Reactions, Vials

isolate your social activities

chocolate with mint icing

retroactively today eyebrows

another eight weeks

she got out all right

meanwhile he might

anyone can do it now

the whole system is fine and good

color coded medications

so your vial is green

or red or white and

you know out the corner of your eye

it’s not physical

combating infection

on day four the second pill

families leave with vases of Iris

pink boxes of cupcakes

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Sarah Mangold lives in Edmonds, WA. She is the author of Household Mechanics (New Issues) and the forthcoming Electrical Theories of Femininity (Pavement Saw Press, selected for the 2011 Transcontinental Poetry Prize). Her most recent chapbooks include An Antenna Called the Body (Little Red Leaves Textile Editions), and I Meant to Be Transparent (forthcoming, LRL e-editions). From 2000-2009 she edited Bird Dog, a print journal of innovative writing and art and currently co-edits, FLASH + CARD, a chapbook and ephemera press.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: AFTER PROGRESS, by Kemeny Babineau

AFTER PROGRESS
by Kemeny Babineau
$4

Arizona Bulletin

The mind trapped in the body like that,
it goes without saying, a dependent
island unto oneself, merely
the sum of one, a whole at least
even with a zero through your skull
the point blankly is
there are guns
in the hands of madmen and America
has made a symbol
of its yearning for violence.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Kemeny Babineau lives near Brantford Ontario. He runs Laurel Reed Books and edits literary rag magazine The New Chief Tongue. Babineau’s latest work, After the 6ix O’Clock News, is published by BookThug.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: Mediterraneo, by Deanna Young

Mediterraneo
three poems by Deanna Young
$3

Black Bug

In the days before seatbelts we came to a bridge
through a fine, dark rain. You held the baby on your lap,
as mothers did then, nearly crushing her as we swerved
into the guardrail, then hung there over the river, swollen
and waiting for us to fall. Which is when fate first held
and loved me. Just three, I’d flown through the gap
in the bucket seats and bruised my temple on the dash.
Your shins were gashed, and a familiar tool shed smell
blossomed to mix with rye fumes steaming from his skin
and leather jacket, a smell I did not then identify as blood.

In the hush of rain still falling onto the back of our shiny
black bug, its wings folded. Oncoming cars found cracks
in the windshield and soon, the reassuring scream of sirens.
Beyond that, the other side of the bridge, a blurred and swaying
expanse of years I would find hard to navigate.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Deanna Young’s second book of poems, Drunkard’s Path, was published by Gaspeareau Press in 2001. Her writing has appeared in numerous journals including The Malahat Review and Arc and been aired on CBC radio. She’s currently completing her third manuscript, Knowledge from a Previous Life. Born in Lucan, Ontario, she now lives in Ottawa.

Mediterraneo will be launching as part of The Factory Reading Series in Ottawa on February 17, 2012, alongside a chapbook launch by Michael Blouin, and opening reader, Robin K. Macdonald.


To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: ECONOMIES OF SCALE: rob mclennan interviews derek beaulieu on NO PRESS / derek beaulieu interviews rob mclennan on above/ground press

ECONOMIES OF SCALE:
rob mclennan interviews derek beaulieu on NO PRESS / derek beaulieu interviews rob mclennan on above/ground press
with a selection of new work by both authors
$5

Unofficial launch to happen in Ottawa on Saturday, March 31, 2012, as derek beaulieu reads at Gallery 101 via Max Middle's AB Series.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2012
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 402 McLeod St #3, Ottawa ON K2P 1A6 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

Rusty Morrison interviews rob mclennan on Canadian poetry, blogging, reviewing and above/ground press,

Writer and Omnidawn co-publisher Rusty Morrison interviews above/ground press editor/publisher rob mclennan over at the Omnidawn blog, OmniVerse. Thanks, Rusty! The interview concludes with a new poem by rob mclennan.