Micah Ballard (San Francisco CA)
Melissa Eleftherion Carr (Ukiah CA)
Amanda Deutch (Brooklyn NY)
Katie Ebbitt (New York NY)
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Julia Polyck O'Neill (Toronto ON)
lovingly hosted by publisher/editor rob mclennan
Sunday, May 19 2024: 3pm PST/6pm EST ZOOMplease contact host or readers for zoom link:
rob mclennan : rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com or
Melissa Eleftherion Carr : melissa.eleftherion (at) gmail (dot) com
Micah Ballard is the author of over a dozen books of poetry including
Waifs and Strays (City Lights Books),
Afterlives (Bootstrap Press),
The Michaux Notebook (FMSBW),
Krewes (Bootstrap Press),
Selected Prose, 2008-19 (Blue Press),
Evangeline Downs (Ugly Duckling Presse), Daily Vigs (Bird & Beckett Books),
Vesper Chimes (Gas Meter),
Muddy Waters (State Champs), and
Negative Capability in the Verse of John Wieners (Bootstrap Press). He lives in San Francisco with poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux, their daughter Lorca, and co-edits Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions.
He will be launching
BUSY SECRET (2024), his first chapbook with above/ground press, although he did co-edit
G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #21, "Castle Greyskull," with Garrett Caples (above/ground press, 2022).
Melissa Eleftherion (she/they) is a writer, a librarian, and a visual artist. Born & raised in Brooklyn, she holds degrees from Brooklyn College, Mills College, and San Jose State University. They are the author of the full-length poetry collections,
field guide to autobiography (The Operating System, 2018), &
gutter rainbows (Querencia Press, 2024), as well as twelve chapbooks including
trauma suture (above/ground press, 2020), &
sunflower spell (poems-for-all, 2022). Her work has been widely published & featured in venues like
Quarter after Eight,
Sixth Finch,
Entropy, &
Barren Magazine. Melissa now lives in Northern California where she manages the Ukiah Branch Library, curates the LOBA Reading Series, and serves as Poet Laureate Emeritus of the City of Ukiah. Recent work is available at
www.apoetlibrarian.wordpress.com.
She will be launching
abject sutures (2024), her third chapbook with above/ground press, after
little ditch (2018) and
trauma suture (2020).
Amanda Deutch is a poet born and raised in New York City. She is the author of several chapbooks including
Bodega Night Pigeon Riot (above/ground press, 2020), and
Surf Avenue & 29th Street, Coney Island (Least Weasel Press, 2018). Deutch’s poetry has been published in
The Brooklyn Rail,
The New York Times,
Oversound,
The Rumpus,
Cimarron Review and in many other journals and magazines. An artist book collaboration with Sarah Nicholls,
wild anemone, is forthcoming in 2024. She lives in Brooklyn where she is the founder of Parachute Literary Arts.
She will be launching
new york ironweed (2024), her second above/ground press title, after
bodega night pigeon riot (2020).
Katie Ebbitt is a poet/psycho-behavioralist living in NYC. She is the author of the chapbooks
ANOTHER LIFE (Counterpath, 2016),
Para Ana (Inpatient, 2019), and
Air Sign (Creative Writing Department, 2024).
Fecund, her first full-length book, will be released by Keith LLC.
She will be launching
HYSTERICAL PREGNANCY (2024), her first title with above/ground press.
Julia Polyck-O’Neill (they/she) is an artist, curator, critic, poet, and writer. They are currently the Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph and a former SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at York University’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology. Starting in July 2024, they will be an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Her research explores feminist, digital approaches to interdisciplinary artists’ archives and intersections between archives and creative praxis. Her publications appear in
Amodern,
Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (
The Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History),
English Studies in Canada,
BC Studies,
Canadian Literature, and other places.
She will be launching
Process (2024), her fourth above/ground press title, after
femme (2016),
Everything will be taken away (2018) and
poem | image | self (2019).
