some author activity: Hoefle, Zhang, Trivedi, Paige, Oniță + Webb,

forthcoming author Harold Hoefle is interviewed via Chaudiere Books in the "six questions" series; Elena Zhang is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Amish Trivedi has new work at autocorrect; Salem Paige has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Adriana Oniță is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Lindsey Webb is named a finalist for this year's Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, hosted by The Georgia Review.

some author activity: mclennan, Webb, Jirgens, Carpenter, Pirie, Tracy + Massey,

a video of rob mclennan reading now exists online as part of the Gap Riot Press summer 2024 launch; there's a conversation between Lindsey Webb and Kelly Hoffer online at BOMB magazine, and Webb also has new poems and book recommendations up at Etcetera; Karl Jirgens has a poem in the "Tuesday poem" series; J.R. Carpenter has new work in Blackbox Manifold; and Pearl Pirie, Karen Massey and Dale Tracy have poems in the August issue of Bywords.ca

some author activity: Levy, Webb, Robinson, Banks, Naughton + Smith,

forthcoming author John Levy is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Lindsey Webb is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series; Elizabeth Robinson has new work up at Conjunctions; Chris Banks has a new essay up at The Woodlot; Katie Naughton has new work up at Still Point; and Mahaila Smith is interviewed via Chaudiere Books.

some author activity: Kemp-Gee, Jirgens, Kroetsch, Webb + mclennan,

Meghan Kemp-Gee has three poems in issue six of Couplet Poetry; Karl Jirgens' work is part of Jim Andrews' new Sea of Po site, and Jirgens also has new poems for Al Purdy, Robert Kroetsch, Raymond Souster and Louis Dudek over at The Typescript; Lindsey Webb is interviewed by Madeline Howard for Coveteur; and rob mclennan has a new poem up at John Stiles' How Yah Doon?

some author activity: Kolewe, Naughton, Webb, Kemp-Gee + (ottawa) small press almanac,

R. Kolewe is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Katie Naughton and Lindsey Webb both have new work at interim poetics; forthcoming author Meghan Kemp-Gee is also interviewed at Touch the Donkey; and did you see that above/ground press is now part of the "(ottawa) small press almanac" collective of Ottawa-based small and micro press publishers?

2023 #AWP (unofficial) offsite (virtual) readings : day two of five: MacEachern, Heroux, Vallières, Webb + Drescher,

Furthering yesterday’s post, as part of the above/ground press thirtieth anniversary, I thought it would be both interesting and amusing to host a virtual (and unaffiliated) offsite reding as part of this year’s Association of Writers and Writing Programs annual Conference and Bookfair. I mean, offsite means offsite, right?

Jessi MacEachern (she/her) is the author of the poetry collection A Number of Stunning Attacks, as well as the chapbooks Television Poems, You Do Not Like Animal Sounds, and Ravishing the Sex into the Hold. Her new chapbook When a Folk, When a Sprawl is forthcoming with above/ground press in 2023 and her new poetry collection Cut Side Down is forthcoming with Invisible in 2025. She is the 2022–24 reviewer of Poetics for Oxford University Press’s This Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory and is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the English Department at Bishop’s University.

Jason Heroux was the Poet Laureate for the City of Kingston from 2019 to 2022. He is the author of four books of poetry: Memoirs of an Alias (2004); Emergency Hallelujah (2008); Natural Capital (2012) and Hard Work Cheering Up Sad Machines (2016). His recent books include a short fiction collection Survivors of the Hive (Radiant Press) and two poetry chapbooks: New and Selected Days (Origami Poems Project) and Something or Other (above/ground press).

William Vallières is a Montreal poet. His work has appeared in The Walrus, Best Canadian Poetry, Grain, and Event, among other places. His chapbook Poor Rutebeuf, a translation of the French medieval poet Rutebeuf, just appeared through above/ground press. His first book of poems, Versus, is out with Véhicule Press.

Lindsey Webb is the author of the chapbooks House (Ghost Proposal, 2020) and Perfumer’s Organ (above/ground press, 2023). Her writings have appeared in Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, and Lana Turner, among others. She lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a Steffensen Cannon fellow in the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.

Julia Drescher is the author of OPEN EPIC (Delete Press, 2017). Her above/ground chapbooks are BLATTA & Metastatic Flower (2020). She lives in Colorado.

new from above/ground press: Perfumer's Organ, by Lindsey Webb

Perfumer’s Organ
Lindsey Webb
$5

       If it’s important to you, you can keep it on. So I wear it like a popular wife at the supermarket.
       It is seventy years ago and I am gracefully taking the phone off the hook, and my fingers go all the way around the handle before meeting in the middle, listful.
Eating endocrines off the ground.
       What do they call that scent—petrichor? Laser copier? Hang your clothes out to dry in the wind and when you bring them in, cover your face and breathe deeply. That’s ozone.
       Elephant trunk bottle, decanted onto a towel and dabbed on the throat; hot evening.

       Ammonites moving out there in the dark.

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

cover image: Maddison Colvin, “white peonies” (2019) used with permission of the artist

Lindsey Webb is the author of a chapbook, House (Ghost Proposal, 2020). Her writings have appeared in Chicago Review, Denver Quarterly, jubilat, and Lana Turner, among others. She was named a 2021 National Poetry Series finalist and received a fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center. She lives in Salt Lake City, where she is a Steffensen Cannon fellow in the PhD program in Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Utah.

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