Ken Norris
$6
Being me, it’s hard
to believe. Faith
so often seems like
a scam. Forget
about this life. Be humble,
be poor, don’t delve
into revolution.
The orthodox stories
are so lame, smell strongly
of lying. Priests
in black gowns
always have a lot to say
about renunciation. They
gave up on living years ago.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2026
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Cover drawing: Marlene Konyves
Cover graphic design: Janet Kennedy
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 M.A. 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’ fifteenth 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), What’s Left (2025) and Traveller (2026). See his 2025 above/ground press substack interview here.
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