new from above/ground press: SAME BITCH, DIFFERENT ERA: THE REAL HOUSEWIVES POEMS, by Heather Sweeney

SAME BITCH, DIFFERENT ERA: THE REAL HOUSEWIVES POEMS
Heather Sweeney
$5

EPISODE 1:  BEWITCHED
you have to calm down we’re at Bendel’s this is Richard he’s very confident we were lovers oh no he’s backing up this bores me don’t look into Ramona’s eyes I always felt her pain stop it Sonja she’s out to lunch yeah he’s adorable Richard come back I’m not enjoying this process I want out like on Bewitched

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
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Heather Sweeney lives with her husband and beloved dog, Dexter, in San Diego, CA.  She is a poet, painter, and yoga teacher. Her first chapbook, Just Let Me Have This, was published by Selcouth Station Press last year. She has not watched "The Real Housewives of New York" in a very long time.

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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

VERSeFest 2019: Anstee, Hogg, Radmore + Saklikar (and The Peter F. Yacht Club! (and The Factory Reading Series!

above/ground press authors Cameron Anstee, Bob Hogg, Claudia Coutu Radmore and Renée Sarojini Saklikar (as well as a whole slew of other writers) participate in VERSeFest, Ottawa's annual poetry festival, which runs from March 26-31, 2019. Check out the whole schedule here. And don't forget that The Factory Reading Series hosts its annual lecture as part of such (featuring talks by Klara du Plessis and Sennah Yee), and a new issue of The Peter F. Yacht Club will also land that week!

new from above/ground press: Like the noises alive people wear, by R. Kolewe

Like the noises alive people wear
R. Kolewe
$5

1.

In the next room someone reading stage directions
trying to name the scene familiar foreign
always even what comes next is far away.



No correct one. A branching
tangled tree overgrown with vines, no line
breaks now. Monochrome, only edges.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
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R. Kolewe lives in Toronto. He has published two books of poetry, Afterletters (BookThug 2014) and Inspecting Nostalgia (Talon Books 2017).

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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Bolster, Paige, Cortese, Downs + Ackerson-Kiely,

Stephanie Bolster has a new essay up at my (small press) writing day; Abby Paige has a poem included in the Poetry Pause series via The League of Canadian Poets; Franco Cortese has a poem and short interview online at Canadian Literature; Buck Downs is interviewed at DCPL Radio; and Paige Ackerson-Kiely has a poem up at The Millions.

new from above/ground press: uoiea, by Franco Cortese

uoiea
Franco Cortese
$5

 aûa

 ai

aau,

aai ua

 ûa;

ûaûa

uéué,

ûaûa

 ui;

 ua,

éoéo,

 ao

 eo,

au au,

au au,

au ui

auau,

ea, ea,

uáuá,

 oi,

ôiôi

ao, ûa;

éoéo.

ring

to copulate
contagion,
whose cause
the rain;
tendons
to flutter,
tendons
to ask;
ceremonial staff
ashes,
nightfall
a fragrance,
smoke dew,
bile current,
I ask
to shout in pain,
to rise, get up,
to reside,
to move away,
to stir and stir
nightfall, the rain;
ashes.

 published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Cover images/design: Sacha Archer

Franco Cortese is an experimental poet living in Thorold, Ontario. His previous work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Capilano Review, Canadian Literature, filling Station, ditch, The Operating System, Eunoia Review and others. He has had chapbooks, leaflets, booklets, nanopamphlets and other poetic ephemera published by or forthcoming through nopress, The Blasted Tree, Spacecraft Press, Penteract Press and Simulacrum Press, and his poetry has appeared in the anthology Concrete and Constraint (Penteract Press 2018). uoiea is his third chapbook.

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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: BODY BIRTH, by Evan Gray

BODY BIRTH
Evan Gray
$5

the field is the body

and the body is impregnated by tense

and the body hangs low, lower

and the windows enter here

and the frailer flannel body

not hard like a used body

and not reshaped like flattened iron

and not a blanket folded with static

stacks for the body begs for all

of poetry, a vile beginning

remaining only with legs

both a bat and both with legs

crawling as if this body

and in another dream that night my face washed in dew

my body

the body girdled with a reed

the body of the message of god

the body of gnashing teeth

the body with mind is now

for without the mind and ripples

slouching back but not romantically

for decay is with the mind

and with the body a shell

of a ghost of with a vapor

a body of perpetual disgrace

a body shut in a memory care unit

and the body is in the field now

and the body is a holler of denial

time and the body spits and chews

and the body aches and sings

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Cover by Austin Blake Mays

Evan Gray is from Jefferson, North Carolina and is the author of two other chapbooks: Blindspot (the Rest (Garden-Door Press, 2018) and Dusk Melody (Shirt Pocket Press, 2019). His essays and poems have been featured in DIAGRAM, Tarpaulin Sky, Yalobusha Review, Word For / Word, and others. He currently lives and teaches in Pittsburgh, PA.

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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: from Riot, September 2016, an Inside Out Journal, by Dale Smith

from Riot
September 2016, an Inside Out Journal
Dale Smith
$5

Faded leaves hang limp in evening sun. Worried cyclists keep close to curb. Pale sky’s scrim a crib holding no one. Dead things collect in words. To speak of origin brings a quiet rain to ruined global interface. Like messages from stars, light years distant. To grieve or share caravan soul worry. Hold tightly to rafts, the current flows outward, naked, disastrous fool. A beard and exposed torso. Five-days old, born in passage over Mediterranean shame. Image flashes beyond borders. Simultaneity of needs washed clean by hunger’s devotion.

   Stand in trashy yellow field where

   dirty underwear plastic garbage

   eat rations a fate or ratio of

   circumstance the Navigant sun north

   lunar pulse of waves widening long

   mother to love openly sideways

   enter Lesbos on orange life vest already

   squeezed no air lungs like dry leaves grow still

   rocks there are cameras to mediate

one’s digital window. The subway car is overheated. A child cries. Drunk white man covered in face tattoos screams. Beyond one a membrane prevents seeing through remnants of oneself. Not even the color of a concept can restore the ore or ire animating crisis. The dead are not as good. It is not okay.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Cover image by Stacy Blint

Dale Smith lives in Toronto, Ontario, where he teaches at Ryerson University. His writing appears in Brick, Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. He is an editor, with Robert J. Bertholf, of An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson and Imagining Persons: Robert Duncan’s Lectures on Charles Olson. His most recent poetry is Sons published by Knife Fork Book in 2017.

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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com