Wednesday, February 26, 2025

above/ground press as part of the Riverbed Year-End Fundraiser!

above/ground press has donated a whole stack of chapbook titles for the sake of a fundraiser that Riverbed Reading Series, an Ottawa-based multidisciplinary performance series, is currently running. Here's the list of above/ground press titles offered, by some of the poets that have read as part of their fine series:

Shane Rhodes, It’s Here / All the Beauty / I Told You About (2024); Chris Johnson, Gravenhurst, a failed record of a roadtrip in haibun (2019); Claudia Coutu Radmore, camera obscura (2019); Chris Johnson, some of the raccoon poems (2022); Report from the Anstee Society. Vol. 1 No. 1. (2022); Grant Wilkins, Reading The Great Classics Of Canlit through Book 5 of bpNichol’s The Martyrology (2022); AJ Dolman, Scalpel, tea and shot glass (2004); Cameron Anstee, Regarding Renewal (2012); Cameron Anstee, Frank St. (2010); Mahaila Smith, Enter the Hyperreal (2024); Grant Wilkins, In Which Archibald Lampman / Translates Arthur Rimbaud (2023).
So many things! They're holding their in-person event this Sunday, so why not take a look? Otherwise, there are ways to catch their fundraiser online, as well. Here's the email that Riverbed sent out, earlier today:

Riverbed Year-End Fundraiser
Sunday, March 2, 2025 from 1-3pm at Club SAW

in-person event only
featuring the launch of a limited edition commemorative five-year anniversary chapbook, silent auction with donations from local businesses and community organizations, special performances from co-founders Ellen Chang-Richardson and nina jane drystek, and a poetry karaoke open mic.

Commemorative chapbooks will be for sale at the event in a limited run of 30 copies. Payment via cash or e-transfer to riverbedreadingseries@gmail.com.

Donations from Evil Llama and Friends, Luck and Lavender Studio, Perfect Books Ottawa, Victoire Boutique, Beechwood Pottery Studio, Ottawa International Writers Festival, Versefest, Lindsay Meyers RMT, Curtis Perry Photography, Art House Café, Manahil Bandukwala Art, and more.

If people cannot attend in-person, they can make a donation to support Riverbed online: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-riverbed-reading-series-S6

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