TODAY IS THE TWENTY-EIGHTH BIRTHDAY OF ABOVE/GROUND PRESS!

Oh, I know. What are anniversaries without big ridiculous parties? But we'll get there again. Remember the twenty-sixth anniversary? Or the twenty-fifth? The twenty-third? And the Toronto same? Or the nineteenth? Those sure were good times, yep. Amanda Earl even did a nice write-up for last year's anniversary, which was quite nice (and my birthday post for last year I thought was pretty good, also). And remember all those essays we posted by a variety of above/ground press authors etc for the twenty-fifth anniversary? But don't worry, just because we're all still home (but slowly emerging, it would seem), above/ground press is still working on the usual array of a million, billion things (see the sidebar for the growing names of authors with forthcoming chapbooks). Twenty-eight years; that seems nutty, doesn't it? And the press has produced (to date) some 1120 items (with a handful sitting at the printer even as we speak). And I've already started thinking about the thirtieth anniversary anthology (the third "decade" anthology), to be produced through Invisible Publishing (keep in mind you can purchase a copy of the twentieth anniversary volume through them as well, yes?).

Over here at above/ground press worldwide poetry solutions, we're working on multiple upcoming chapbooks, a few new broadsides and even the next two issues of G U E S T [a journal of guest editors], which will be edited by Melissa Eleftherion and Pearl Pirie! And you've been paying attention to Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] and periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, yes? And I've even added a blog post to keep track of the above/ground press "prose/naut" prose chapbook series, so you can see what's forthcoming over that way. In the meantime, there will be other anniversaries (maybe we can celebrate twenty-eight and a half, or something). I'll be here, still, working away. I'm the one with the perpetual array of scotch tape and paper, clean scissors by the ready.