some author activity: Solomon, Berlatsky, Rogal, carisse, Baus + Dreiblatt,

Misha Solomon wrote on the late Ian Stephens for The Fiddlehead; Noah Berlatsky is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where Stan Rogal and russell carisse also have poems; and the video from Eric Baus and Ian Dreiblatt's zoom-reading in Jack Krick's Hugely Popular series is now online.

some author activity: Dreiblatt, Adams, mclennan, Nećakov, Novak + Hofmann,

Ian Dreiblatt responds as part of the "12 or 20 questions" interview series; Carrie Olivia Adams was recently interviewed by Zach Savich for Tupelo Quarterly; rob mclennan has posted a memorial poem on his blog for Phyllis Webb; forthcoming author Lillian Nećakov has a poem in the "poetry pause" via The League of Canadian Poets; JoAnna Novak has a piece in The New Yorker; and Ava Hofmann has some new work up at Territory.

some author activity: Perry, Mavreas, Dreiblatt, Iijima, Reed + Gray,

forthcoming above/ground press author Paul Perry answers the "12 or 20 questions" interview; Billy Mavreas is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Ian Dreiblatt is now a columnist for The Believer; Brenda Iijima introduces the late Marthe Reed's Arc Hive via Tupelo Quarterly; and Evan Gray has a poem up in the Tuesday poem series via the Dusie blog.

some author activity: Sweeney, Gurton-Wachter, Dreiblatt + mclennan,

Heather Sweeney has some new work in the "Tuesday poem" series over at dusie; Anna Gurton-Wachter has some new work in Black Sun Lit; the first issue of Anna Gurton-Wachter and Ian Dreiblatt's Counter Poetry is now online; and rob mclennan has a spring poem up at 8 Poems.

Ian Dreiblatt's how to hide by showing in the age of being alone with the universe listed as one of Kenyon Review’s Holiday Reading Recommendations

Two lists in two days! Kirsten Reach, Fiction Editor at the Kenyon Review offers Ian Dreiblatt's how to hide by showing in the age of being alone with the universe (2018) as one of Kenyon Review’s Holiday Reading Recommendations, calling it "a delight." We totally agree. Thanks so much!

new from above/ground press: how to hide by showing in the age of being alone with the universe, by Ian Dreiblatt

how to hide by showing in the age of being alone with the universe
Ian Dreiblatt 
$5

we fly in the forest.  our seeing the arrow.  thieves live here.  and the forest is actually a series of forests of different sizes, some lining the floors of others.  you put it together.  we get smaller and smaller until we’re not even real anymore.  night showers us with ratios.  we walk a long stair.  we know stones, bricks, timbers, the external merge of any two syntactic objects.

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

Ian Dreiblatt is a poet, translator, genial crackpot, and musician. His previous chapbooks are sonnets (Metambesen) and barishonah (DoubleCross Press), his translations include Comradely Greetings (the prison correspondence of Pussy Riot’s Nadyezhda Tolokonnikova with Slavoj Žižek, Verso), Nikolai Gogol’s The Nose (Melville House), and contributions to Russian Cosmism (Boris Groys, ed., MIT) and Not a Word About Politics (Roman Osminkin, Cicada). Poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Elderly, BOMB, the Agriculture Reader, Pallaksch. Pallaksch., and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, where he takes extravagantly long walks, creates masterful soups, and hopes to run into you soon.

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