some author activity: Walker, Berlatsky, Niespodziany, Markotić, Archer, Ebbitt + the Indie Lit Market!

Laura Walker has new work up at Astrolabe; Noah Berlatsky has three poems in the new issue of Ranger; Benjamin Niespodziany has two new poems up at HAD; Nicole Markotić is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Sacha Archer has four pieces up at A-Minor; Katie Ebbitt has new work at talking about strawberries all of the time; and don't forget the Indie Lit Market in Toronto on November 2nd!

above/ground press authors Sarah Mangold and Laura Walker are Saturnalia Books Award Winners!

Congratulations to above/ground press authors Sarah Mangold and Laura Walker, who were announced as two of three 2025 Book Prize winners over at Saturnalia Books! Sarah Mangold's manuscript, In the Service of the Mysteries, was chosen for the Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize by guest judge Hadara Bar-Nadav, and Laura Walker's manuscript red was chosen by Saturnalia Books' staff as one of two Alma Book Awards (alongside the manuscript Agape by Patrick Kindig; it would be impolite to not mention him as well). You can see their announcement for such, as well as further information on their book prizes, here.

As you most likely already know, Sarah Mangold is the author of five chapbooks with above/ground press, including two editions of Cupcake Royale (2012; second edition, 2018), as well as Parlor (2012), A Copyist, an Astronomer, and a Calendar Expert (2016) and BIRDS I RECALL (2018). She also had a poem as part of the 25th anniversary above/ground press broadside project, and a festschrift on her work, Report from the Mangold Society, Vol 1. No. 1, appeared through above/ground press in 2022. You can find her 2015 Touch the Donkey interview here. Laura Walker, on her part, is the author of the above/ground press title, genesis (2023). They have both published a bunch of other things you should get your hands on, also, so you should probably get caught up before their new books land. Congrats to all three! I am very excited to see these books appear.

Benjamin Niespodziany's virtual reading marathon, September 24, 2023: Logan, mclennan, Walker, Williams, Barwin etc

above/ground press author Benjamin Niespodziany has curated a virtual reading marathon that will go live on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at noon CT, featuring thirty-one readers and nearly three hours of footage! the event also includes plenty of other above/ground press authors, including Nate Logan, rob mclennan, Laura Walker, Evan Williams and Gary Barwin! The premiere link for the event will be here, "live" on YouTube and will continue to be available after the event on his YouTube channel. He has included a list of authors and timestamps, also, if you aren't able to sit through all three hours.

00:00 Intro
01:02 Sparrow
05:12 Rebecca Wadlinger
07:44 Rainie Oet
10:15 Vi Khi Nao
13:07 Nate Logan
15:59 Jose Hernandez Diaz
19:31 Kristin Lueke
20:54 william erickson
25:06 Zachary Schomburg
29:36 Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
34:37 Angelo Maneage
36:35 Joe Aguilar
42:08 Tyler Barton
50:58 Vik Shirley
54:53 Michael Bazzett
55:21 Daisuke Shen
57:24 rob mclennan
1:07:51 Laura Walker
1:12:56 Tom Snarsky
1:22:00 Evan Williams
1:34:49 Réka Nyitrai
1:36:24 David Wojciechowski
1:45:40 Jay Besemer
1:49:42 Paul Cunningham
1:58:00 David Dodd Lee
2:03:36 Lesle Lewis
2:10:09 Daniel Miller
2:15:51 Rick Bursky
2:24:08 Kai Ihns
2:27:44 Jeff Alessandrelli
2:37:34 Gary Barwin

new from above/ground press: genesis, by Laura Walker

Laura Walker
genesis
$5

One

 

in the beginning i shadow you with envelopes, and falling down stairs our breath: the night as it moves. and the lines recede, a thunder; and they are ecstatic in the aisles; and the boats are righted and culled from the bearing deck

 

and the rain
and the dark paper map
and the lineage of small white instruments, arrayed by the door

 

 

and there were the ones who grew; and there were the ones spacious in trees; and there were those who pressed into surface, who suffered and were not to blame: who recorded the sounds of slippers on floors, a traveling back to weather and rind

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover artwork: [untitled], Kevin Walker.

Laura Walker is the author of psalmbook (2022), story (2016), and Follow-Haswed (2012), all from Apogee Press, as well as bird book (Shearsman Books, 2011), rimertown/ an atlas (UC Press, 2008), and swarm lure (Battery Press, 2004). Her chapbook bird book was published by Albion Books in 2010. She grew up in North Carolina and now lives in Berkeley, California, where she teaches poetry. In 2022 she joined Apogee Press as a co-editor.

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 rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com