some author activity: O'Reilly, Gurton-Wachter, Reid, Dardis, Boyle + Aube,

Nathanael O'Reilly has a poem included in Red Room Poetry's Phone-a-Poem project; Anna Gurton-Wachter has a poem in the debut issue of the newly-revived LONG NEWS; Monty Reid has a new poem suite up at IceFloe Press; Colin Dardis has three new poems up at The Pi Review; Frances Boyle has two new poems up at Obindo; and Gwen Aube launches their above/ground press chapbook this week in Montreal! oh, and did you see that above/ground press now has a substack?

some upcoming author readings: mclennan in Picton, Ebbitt in NYC + Tracy, Casteels + Heroux in Kingston, etc

rob mclennan reads with Kingston poet and Anstruther Press author Y. S. Lee on Thursday, June 20 in Picton, Ontario as part of the PEP Rally series hosted by Assembly Press: 6:30-8pm at Books & Company, 289 Main Street; Katie Ebbitt launches her above/ground press title alongside Riley Mac, Sophia Kiam, Coco Gordon Moore, Krithika Varagur and Stephanie Wambugu as part of Red Room KGB, 7pm on Sunday, June 23 in New York City; Dale Tracy launches her above/ground press title alongside Michael e. Casteels and Jason Heroux chapbook launches on Tuesday, June 18, 7pm, at Novel Idea Bookstore in Kingston, 156 Princess Street ; and you heard the ottawa small press book fair is next weekend, yes?