Ken Norris
$6
Hello, and welcomepublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
to obscurity.
I’m just the man
who sweeps the halls.
Mornings are dusted
by sunlight, and the nights
go crazy. I cannot
stop or start. I see
your world in flames.
Mine moves with ghosts
and shadows. If
your whole life
is in your phone,
what are the chances?
June 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Ken Norris was born in New York City in 1951. He came to Canada in the early 1970s, to escape Nixon-era America and to pursue his graduate education. He completed an MA at Concordia University and a PhD in Canadian Literature at McGill University. He became a Canadian citizen in 1985. Norris is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maine, where he taught Canadian Literature and Creative Writing for thirty-three years. He currently resides in Toronto.
This is Ken Norris’ fourteenth above/ground press chapbook, after Windward – St. Lucia Poems (1995), The Commentaries (1999), Songs For Isabella (2000), Green Wind (2010), Looking Into It (2011), Hong Kong Blues (2019), Hawaiian Sunrise (2021), Stray Dog Café (2021), The Traveling Wilburys Collection (2021), False Narratives (2022), Echoes (2023), Broken River (2024) and What’s Left (2025). See his 2025 above/ground press substack interview here.
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