some author activity: Collis, Dueck, Shea, Bowering + Norris,

Stephen Collis is interviewed via Victoria Festival of Authors, as publicity for an upcoming reading; Jonathan Ball's podcast Writing the Wrong Way offers a two-part interview with Nathan Dueck: Parenting And Productive Writing With Nathan Dueck - Part 1, Parenting And Productive Writing With Nathan Dueck - Part 2; Michael Martin Shea is interviewed by Lloyd Wallace for Poetry Daily; and both George Bowering and Ken Norris have new work up at The Typescript.

some author activity: Tierney, Skrabalak, Carr, Robinson, Shea + Eleftherion,

Orchid Tierney is the third in the above/ground press author spotlights via the above/ground press substack; Ryan Skrabalak is interviewed alongside Robbie Wing by Miriam Atkin for "Specific Objects," WGXC: Radio for Open Ears; Julie Carr and Elizabeth Robinson have new work in the latest issue of Posit; Michael Martin Shea has some new translations of poems by Augusto Lunel over at Black Sun Lit; and Melissa Eleftherion has new work up Stone Circle Review.

some author activity: Ace, McEwan + Shea,

Samuel Ace has new work up in The Ex-Puritan, as does Drew McEwan; and Michael Martin Shea has new work up at Tyger Quarterly.

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: Boyle, Coulton, Smallfield, Norris, Logan, Notley, Shea + Hyland,

Frances Boyle has new work up at Briefly Zine, as well as Roi Faineant; Valerie Coulton has new work up at talking about strawberries all of the time, as does Edward Smallfield and Ken Norris, and even Nate Logan is interviewed; Alice Notley has new work up in The Tiny, as does MC Hyland and Michael Martin Shea.

new from above/ground press: COMPARATIVE MORPHOLOGIES, by Michael Martin Shea

C O M P A R A T I V E   M O R P H O L O G I E S
Michael Martin Shea
$4

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Nothing is dead until I say it’s dead and the revolution is super-dead.

The criminal world is another planet, the poet defends the state against such malfeasance but to no avail.

A revolutionary is a man who has been shot for his ideas. The poet is shot for thinking

he’s a revolutionary, thus fulfilling the prophecy.

The order doesn’t matter,

only the bees matter, and the bees are also dead:

grandfather spoke on their method, observed the azaleas,

it wasn’t a garden it was a yard.

You are dead but only because I say you are.

Your blue-eyes have another name now.

 

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

Michael Martin Shea is the author of the chapbooks Soon (Garden-Door Press) and The Immanent Field (Essay Press). His poems have appeared in Conjunctions, Fence, Colorado Review, jubilat, Pleiades, and elsewhere, and his translation of Liliana Ponce’s Diary is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2018. He lives in Philadelphia, where he is a doctoral student in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and the managing editor of the Best American Experimental Writing anthology series.

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