The Factory Reading Series: Adrienne Gruber, Chris Johnson + Ben Ladouceur, July 2, 2019

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) presents:
The Factory Reading Series:

with readings by:
Adriene Gruber (Vancouver BC)
Chris Johnson (Ottawa ON)
+ Ben Ladouceur (Ottawa ON)

lovingly hosted by rob mclennan
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
doors 7pm/reading 7:30pm
Vimy Brewing Company
145 Loretta Ave N #1, Ottawa

Adrienne Gruber is the author of three books of poetry, Q & A (Book*hug), Buoyancy Control (Book*hug) and This is the Nightmare (Thistledown Press), and five chapbooks. She won the Antigonish Review’s Great Blue Heron poetry contest in 2015, SubTerrain’s Lush Triumphant poetry contest in 2017, and her chapbook Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award in 2012. Originally from Saskatoon, Adrienne lives in Vancouver with her partner and two daughters.

Chris Johnson is the Managing Editor for Arc Poetry Magazine. His chapbook, Listen, Partisan!, is from Frog Hollow Press, and his chapbook Gravenhurst, a failed record of a roadtrip in haibun is newly out from above/ground press. @ceeeejohnson

Ben Ladouceur is the author of Mad Long Emotion, a poetry collection published by Coach House Books. His first collection, Otter, was selected as a best book of 2015 by the National Post, nominated for a Lambda Literary Award, and awarded the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best debut collection in Canada. In 2018, he received the Writers’ Trust Dayne Ogilvie Prize for emerging LGBT writers. He lives in Ottawa.

Amanda Earl reviews six 2018 titles: Adrienne Gruber's Gestational Trail, Gary Barwin and Tom Prime's gravitynipplemilk, Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick's Pleasure Bristles, Alice Notley's UNDO, Sean Braune's The Cosmos and kate siklosi's po po poems

For the second year in a row, the esteemed and muchly generous poet, editor, publisher and reviewer (and above/ground press author) Amanda Earl reviews her favourite above/ground press titles of the past year (see her 2017 lists here, here and here), providing a first review of Adrienne Gruber's Gestational Trail, a first review of Gary Barwin and Tom Prime's gravitynipplemilk, a first review of Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick's Pleasure Bristles, a first review of Alice Notley's UNDO, a third review of Sean Braune's The Cosmos (after Greg Bem reviewed such at Goodreads and Esther Chen reviewed such at PRISM International) and a first review of kate siklosi's po po poems. Thanks so much! You can see Amanda's full review here.

some author activity: Armantrout, Moure, Waldrop, Eleftherion + Gruber,

Rae Armantrout, Erín Moure + Rosmarie Waldrop, along with multiple others, have new work as part of the #MeToo: A Poetry Collective feature at Chicago Review; Melissa Eleftherion is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Adrienne Gruber has some new work + a statement as part of rob mclennan's "Spotlight" series over at Medium.

new from above/ground press: Gestational Trail, by Adrienne Gruber

Gestational Trail
Adrienne Gruber
$4

Bamfield to Darling


Nausea jerks. Muscles stiff
rebellious. Swallow the last
refrigerated food.
Yoghurt drink, bagels and
cream cheese, fruit.
Boat leaves at 6 a.m.
battles an impenetrable fog.

We are the only people
in the ocean.

We bundle in greasy wool blankets
watch California Grays breech
vapor bullets from blowholes.
Sea Lions yawp at our vessel.

Dock at Bamfield. Eggs Benny
a hotcake each. Coffee.
One last flush toilet.
Dropped at the trailhead
clean and crisp.

Total evacuations to date: 53

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Adrienne Gruber is the author of two full-length poetry collections, Buoyancy Control (BookThug) and This is the Nightmare (Thistledown Press), and four chapbooks, The Rope (Jack Pine Press), Intertidal Zones (Jack Pine Press), Mimic (Leaf Press) and Everything Water (Cactus Press). She lives in Vancouver with her family.

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Young, Hancock, Rogal + McEwen,

Geoffrey Young is interviewed by Thomas Fink and Leila Rosner on his recent poetry, over at Dichtung Yammer; Adrienne Gruber writes on Brecken Hancock over at many gendered mothers; Stan Rogal has a new poem posted on the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month; as does Andrew McEwen, a collaboration with Vancouver poet Elee Kraljii Gardiner.