new from above/ground press: Useful Poems, by Cary Fagan

Useful Poems
Cary Fagan
$6
 

Painting Poem

I don’t want
to paint 
a mural
a cathedral’s
ceiling
the brick 
wall
beside  
the Korean 
grocery

I want 
to paint
a 
dandelion
bee
chestnut
pencil stub
shoelace

house 
key

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Cary Fagan is the author of novels, short story collections, children’s books, and poetry chapbooks. His next novel, Still the World, will be published by Book*Hug in 2027. He is involved in two chapbook houses, espresso and Found Object.

This is Fagan’s fourth title through above/ground press, after Fifty-Two Lines About Henry (2024), then / here / now / there (2025) and The Sun Will Bleach It Away (with Rebecca Comay; 2025).

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