some author activity: Does, Graham, Niespodziany, O'Reilly + Hogg,

Amelia Does has new work up at where is the river; Lea Graham is interviewed on NPR radio's KUAR: Public Radio from UA Little Rock (online as a podcast); forthcoming author Benjamin Niespodziany has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; Nathanael O'Reilly has a new poem up at Olney; and Robert Hogg is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

new from above/ground press: The Ham Harp, by Amelia Does

The Ham Harp
Amelia Does
$5

A Silence

Believe it, there is a piece of ham
stuck to his favourite rock

Just a roll, a rolled jam cake
Silence is like milk to me

Can you write about things
Other than good or bad?

I’m sure people do it every day
In Marakesh there’s a few now

Writing long dedications, endless scrolls
Illegible scrawling on sheep innards

Ever closer dangling out the turrets
Sitting in a window, no glass

No light but a pink orange sunset
Their world brimming with silence

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2020
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover illustration by the author

Amelia Does is an artist, filmmaker and writer from London, Ontario. Her poetry has been published by Proper Tales Press, Acta Victoriana, The Week Shall Inherit the Verse and Touch the Donkey. Amelia is author of essays and articles in Cineforum Italia, Senses of Cinema and Incite Journal of Experimental Media. She has self-published six books, six chapbooks and oversaw monthly and quarterly zine publications. Amelia has produced and consulted for several award-winning feature documentaries, and has recently begun a new video series called “Art Life”.  

Ameliadoes.weebly.com

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: NINETY TINY POEMS, by Stuart Ross

NINETY TINY POEMS
Stuart Ross
$5

10 TINY POEMS (25 November 2012)


i

wheaties


ii

fountain
soup


iii

Frieda’s
floor wax


iv

holy ventricle!
tiny puddle


v

an eel
varies its
routine

 
vi

Felt tired.
Lay down.
Woke down.


vii

Piles of centipedes
quivered
in the starlight.


viii

I slapped
his apology.
Kicked it.
Fed it.


ix

the piano
rolled into the room,
played the guitar.


x

he protested his scabs.
a sign fell.
forty years passed.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
August 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Cover art and design by Amelia Does

Stuart Ross is a writer, editor, writing teacher, and small press activist living in Cobourg, Ontario. He was first published at sixteen, then began selling his self-published chapbooks on the streets of Toronto at twenty, and is now the prize-winning author of twenty books of poetry, fiction, and essays, most recently Motel of the Opposable Thumbs (Anvil Press, 2019), Espesantes (above/ground press, 2018), A Sparrow Came Down Resplendent (winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry; Wolsak and Wynn, 2016), and the novel in prose poems Pockets (ECW Press, 2017). His novel Snowball, Dragonfly, Jew won the Mona Elaine Adilman Prize for Jewish Fiction, and his story collection Buying Cigarettes for the Dog won the ReLit Prize for Short Fiction. He also has scores of chapbooks to his credit. His writing has been translated into French, Spanish, Nynorsk, Russian, and Slovenian. Stuart is currently working on a dozen different poetry, non-fiction, and fiction manuscripts. His micropress, Proper Tales Press, is now in its 40th year (visit fortypropertales.blogspot.com). Support Stuart’s work at patreon.com/StuartRoss.

This is his second chapbook with above/ground press, after ESPESANTES (2018).

[Stuart Ross will be launching in Ottawa on August 10th as part of the above/ground press 26th anniversary launch/reading/party]

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com