above/ground press presents readings and other such by an array of poets:
Stephanie Bolster (Montreal)
Adele Graf (Ottawa)
Kristina Drake (East Hawkesbury)
Amanda Earl (Ottawa)
+ rob mclennan (Ottawa)
lovingly hosted by above/ground press author and Apt 9 Press editor/publisher Cameron Anstee
7:30pm door/8pm reading
Thursday, August 31, 2017
Backdrop Food & Drink
160 Metcalfe Street, Ottawa
http://www.thebackdrop.ca/
$5 at the door; includes a copy of a recent above/ground press title
Stephanie Bolster has published four books of poetry, the first of which,
White Stone: The Alice Poems, won the Governor General's and the Gerald Lampert Awards in 1998. Her latest book,
A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth (Brick Books, 2011) was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. Work from her current manuscript-in-progress,
Long Exposure, from which this chapbook is also drawn, was a finalist for the Canada Writes/CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. Editor of
The Best Canadian Poetry in English 2008 and co-editor of
Penned: Zoo Poems, she was born in Vancouver and teaches creative writing at Concordia University in Montréal.
She will be launching the chapbook GHOSTS.
This is Stephanie Bolster’s fourth above/ground press chapbook, after the original
Three Bloody Words (1996),
Biodome (2006) and
Three Bloody Words: Twentieth Anniversary Edition (2016). She also appeared in
the fifth issue of the long poem magazine STANZAS (April 1995).
Adele Graf’s poems have appeared in many Canadian journals including
The Antigonish Review,
CV2,
The Dalhousie Review,
The Fiddlehead,
Room and
Vallum. Her first poetry collection,
math for couples, was published this spring by Guernica Editions.
She will be launching the chapbook a Baltic Friday early in grey.
Kristina Drake writes and edits in the wilderness of East Hawkesbury, Ontario. Her poems have previously appeared in
Carte Blanche,
Soliloquies and
Yalla!,
as an above/ground press broadside, and
as a Tuesday poem on Dusie.
She will be launching the chapbook Ornithology.
Amanda Earl is an Ottawa writer, publisher and visual poet. She’s the managing editor of
Bywords.ca and the fallen angel of AngelHousePress. More information is available at
AmandaEarl.com.
She will be launching the chapbook Lady Lazarus Redux.
This is Earl’s fifth chapbook with above/ground press, after
Eleanor (2007),
The Sad Phoenician’s Other Woman (2008),
Sex First & Then A Sandwich (2012) and
A Book of Saints (2015).
Born in Ottawa, Canada’s glorious capital city,
rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa, where he is home full-time with the two wee girls he shares with Christine McNair. The author of more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include
The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014) and the poetry collection
A perimeter (New Star Books, 2016). He has two poetry collections forthcoming:
Life Sentence (Flat Singles Press, 2018) and
Household items (Salmon Poetry, 2018). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Christine McNair),
The Garneau Review,
seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics,
Touch the Donkey and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual
ottawater. He is “Interviews Editor” at
Queen Mob’s Teahouse, a regular contributor to the
Ploughshares blog, and an editor/managing editor of
many gendered mothers. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at
robmclennan.blogspot.com
He will be launching the chapbook It's still winter.
This is mclennan's millionth chapbook with above/ground press. There are too many to list.
