some author activity: Abel, Bowering, mclennan, Dean + Young,

Jordan Abel has won the 2024 Banff Mountain Book Competition Prize for Mountain Fiction and Poetry; The George Bowering Collection and Reading Room is scheduled to be installed in Special Collections at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver in 2025; rob mclennan was interviewed by Alan Neal for CBC Radio's All In A Day; and Leesa Dean is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey ; and did you see this interview with American poet Geoffrey Young?

some author activity: Olsen, Young, Saklikar, Berlatsky, mclennan + O'Reilly,

Geoffrey Olsen has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Geoffrey Young and Renée Sarojini Saklikar; Noah Berlatsky has some poems up at Five Fleas, as well as a poem in the "Tuesday poem" series; rob mclennan has a poem + a writing prompt up at Moist Poetry Journal; and Nathanael O'Reilly has new work in The Hooghly Review.

some author activity: Robinson, Shea, Trivedi, Hyland, Greenstreet, Nilson, Gray, Iijima, Young + Martin,

Elizabeth Robinson, Michael Martin Shea, Amish Trivedi, MC Hyland, Kate Greenstreet and others all have new work in TYPO 34; Geoffrey Nilson, Stephanie Gray (a poem for Brenda Iijima) and Geoffrey Young each have new poems up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month; and Camille Martin has been working on a number of collages lately, over at her blog.

some author activity: Ross, Reid, Tate, Archer, Gunnars, Jirgens, Norris + Young,

Stuart Ross is a finalist for the 4th James Tate International Poetry Prize, for his full-length manuscript, "Cringe System"; Monty Reid is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Bronwen Tate now has a newsletter you can sign up for; Sacha Archer has posted "an improvisation by Sacha Archer played on a broken stand-up piano that was found in a large dumpster in the downtown of Peterborough, Ontario c. 2007" via YouTube; and above/ground press authors Ken Norris, Karl Jirgens, Geoffrey Young and Kristjana Gunnars, among others, have new work in the latest issue of mouse eggs.

some author activity: Graf, Unsworth, Young, Turnbull, Saklikar + Solomon,

Adele Graf is interviewed in the "Six Questions" series over at Chaudiere Books; Lydia Unsworth has two poems up at The Pi Review; Geoffrey Young has some new work in Hello Goodbye Apocalypse; Chris Turnbull has posted the first installment of a series, interviewing Renée Sarojini Saklikar at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and Misha Solomon opens this year's array of poetry posting for National Poetry Month via the Chaudiere Books blog!

G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #3 now available! guest edited by Geoffrey Young,

NOW AVAILABLE: G U E S T #3

edited by Geoffrey Young

see here for Geoffrey Young’s introduction and biography

the third issue features new work by:

Elaine Equi

Ron Padgett

Terence Winch

Thomas Fink

Annabel Lee

Michael Lally

Jerome Sala

Lydia Davis

Barry Schwabsky

Clark Coolidge

Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland (In Memoriam)

Click here for the link to order

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Author biographies:

Clark Coolidge lives in Petaluma, CA with his wife Susan. Recent books include Life Forms Here (Pressed Wafer 2016); Selected Poems 1962-1985 (Station Hill 2017); POET (Pressed Wafer 2018). He continues to play drums with the free-jazz band Ouroboros.

Lydia Davis’s most recent collection of stories is Can’t and Won’t (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2014). Her translation of Proust’s Letters to His Neighbor appeared in 2017 from New Directions, and a collection of her essays will be published by FSG in the fall of 2019. She is currently preparing a second volume of essays and completing a translation of stories by the Dutch writer A.L. Snijders.

Elaine Equi lives in New York City with her husband, the poet, Jerome Sala. Her books include Sentences and Rain, Click and Clone, and Ripple Effect: New and Selected Poems (all from Coffee House Press). A new collection, The Intangibles, is forthcoming in 2019. She teaches at New York University and in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The New School.

Thomas Fink, Professor of English at CUNY-LaGuardia, is the author of 9 books of poetry, most recently Selected Poems & Poetic Series (Marsh Hawk P, 2016), 2 books of criticism, and 3 edited anthologies. His paintings hang in various collections. His work appears in The Best American Poetry 2007, selected by Heather McHugh and David Lehman.

Tony Hoagland was the author of seven collections of poetry, including Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, What Narcissism Means to Me, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets. He was also the author of two collections of essays, Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays and Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft. He received the Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers, the Mark Twain Award from the Poetry Foundation, and the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library. He taught for many years at the University of Houston. Hoagland died in October 2018.

Michael Lally’s thirtieth book came out in 2018, Another Way To Play: Poems 1960-2017, from 7 Stories Press, with an introduction by Eileen Myles. Award-winning books include The South Orange Sonnets (92nd Street Y “Discovery Award”), Cant Be Wrong (PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award “For Excellence In Literature”), and It’s Not Nostalgia (American Book Award). He writes a blog called Lally’s Alley.

Annabel Lee is the author of Minnesota Drift (forthcoming from Wry), Basket (Accent Editions), Continental 34s (Vehicle Editions) and At the Heart of the World, translations of Blaise Cendrars (O Press). As publisher of Vehicle Editions, in 2018 she co-published, with her daughter Irene Lee, A Book of Signs: The Women’s March, January 21, 2017. She lives in Brooklyn.

Ron Padgett lives in New York and spends time in northern Vermont, near Canada. His forthcoming (2019) book of poems is Big Cabin (Coffee House Press). Other poems of his were used in Jim Jarmusch’s film Paterson. One of Padgett’s favorite contemporary poets is George Bowering.

  

Jerome Sala’s books include Corporations Are People, Too! (NYQ Books), The Cheapskates (Lunar Chandelier) and Look Slimmer Instantly (Soft Skull Press). He lives in New York City, with his wife, poet Elaine Equi. His blog – on poetry, pop culture and everyday life, is espresso bongo: http://www.espressobongo.typepad.com

Barry Schwabsky’s most recent book of poetry is Trembling Hand Equilibrium (Black Square, 2015). Other publications include The Perpetual Guest: Art in the Unfinished Present (Verso, 2016) and Heretics of Language (Black Square, 2018); forthcoming is The Observer Effect: On Contemporary Painting (Sternberg, 2019). He is art critic for The Nation.

Terence Winch’s most recent book of poems is The Known Universe (Hanging Loose, 2018). Born and raised in the Bronx, he has lived in the Washington, DC area for many years. The son of Irish immigrants, he has also played traditional music all his life and was a founder of the original Celtic Thunder, the acclaimed Irish band. His most recent recording is a CD called This Day Too: Music from Irish America (2017).

some author activity: mclennan, Earl, Young, Smith + Higdon,

rob mclennan has some poems up in Volume 1 of Theta Wave; Amanda Earl (among others) participates in the Queen Mob's Review of 2018, over at Queen Mob's Teahouse; Geoffrey Young, Jessica Smith and others have work in the anthology The Emerald Tablet; and Hailey Higdon provides her own list of 2018 Recommended Reading for Bloof Books.

Barry Schwabsky writes on Geoffrey Young for Hyperallergic,

Barry Schwabsky wrote on three Geoffrey Young chapbooks--including his 2017 above/ground press title, THIRTY-THREE (copies of which are still very much available)--as well as about Young's work generally, in a very cool article for Hyperallergic. Thanks so much! You can see the original article here.

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.

rob mclennan interviews Geoffrey Young for Queen Mob's Teahouse

rob mclennan interviews Geoffrey Young over at Queen Mob's Teahouse on his multiple decades of writing and publishing, as well as on Young's latest, THIRTY-THREE, newly published by above/ground press.

new from above/ground press: THIRTY-THREE, by Geoffrey Young

THIRTY-THREE
Geoffrey Young
$5

THE BURIAL

The quotidian intoxication of my style
Favors gesture over statement
Mixed diction over simplicity, shifting tone over
Monochrome.  Dream bits, bare fact, and touches

Of the bizarre enliven my style as it opens
To whimsy’s breeze and fury’s despair,
Landing the first blow.  Delicate as skin
When touched, it remains still as a cactus garden

In the sun.  Daring banality with banality
My style closes the space between “scrupulously
Intelligent” and “incandescently alert” by boiling
The daily grind.  Quick to separate “replete with

Artifice” from “hopelessly fake,” it is ardent
On behalf of words that prepare tradition for the grave.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
January 2017
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Before settling in Great Barrington, Massachusetts in 1982, Geoffrey Young spent student years in Santa Barbara (UCSB), and Albuquerque (UNM), then lived for two years in Paris (a Fulbright year followed by a six-month stint working for La Galerie Sonnabend). From 1975-1982 he lived in Berkeley (two sons born). His small press, The Figures (1975-2005), founded in Berkeley, published more than 135 books of poetry, art writing, and fiction.

He has directed the Geoffrey Young Gallery for the last 24 years, as well as written catalog essays for a dozen artists.

His own recent books include Click Here to Forget, Isolate Flecks, 2016; All the Anarchy I Want, Lonely Woman, 2013; Dumbstruck, Yawning Abyss, 2013, with paintings by Daniel Heidkamp; and Get On Your Pony & Ride, Non-Fiction, 2012, with paintings by Chie Fueki.

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: Pirie, Kaminski, Collis + Young,

Pearl Pirie gets a good write-up in The Kitchissippi Times; an audio interview with Megan Kaminski now exists over at Radio Free Albion; Stephen Collis is interviewed over at thecanadaproject; and Geoffrey Young has a new essay up at ottawa poetry newsletter.