some author activity: Pirie, Kaminski, Collis + Young,

Pearl Pirie gets a good write-up in The Kitchissippi Times; an audio interview with Megan Kaminski now exists over at Radio Free Albion; Stephen Collis is interviewed over at thecanadaproject; and Geoffrey Young has a new essay up at ottawa poetry newsletter.

new from above/ground press: After the Battle of Kingsway, the bees—, by Renée Sarojini Saklikar

After the Battle of Kingsway, the bees—
~ from volume 2 of thecanadaproject, The Heart of This Journey Bears All Patterns, commonly known as Thot-J-Bap, a long poemRenée Sarojini Saklikar
$4

Morphology of the

Let lists suffice, those rubbed, we that assemble:

Cardo, stipes, galea, and palupus.

The City, our essence, we might communicate,

syllable, grammar and line, beds violet, wild thyme

were we to find, cracked cement, east side court

Labium when extended, the cardo,

slender, in the laterial wall, we—

might not meet, nor share anything, a glance

on the train, commonly, as short as half,

the stipital length. See here, we gather

at the steps of public buildings where once

protest put down. Many genera.

there came a time, when soldiers rode, guns cocked.

Through the cardo to the lorum, winds breathe

around condo cranes, City of Night, wander

spray cans in hand, fill our shoes with sand.

O for a hundred thousand,

homes we might call to,

all the lights coming on at once—

 

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2016
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Renée Sarojini Saklikar writes thecanadaproject, a life-long poem chronicle. Work from the project is widely published in journals, anthologies and chapbooks. The first completed book from thecanadaproject is children of air india, un/authorized exhibits and interjections (Nightwood Editions, 2013), winner of the 2014 Canadian Authors Association Award for poetry and a finalist for the 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Award. Renée is currently a mentor and instructor for Simon Fraser University, and co-founder of the poetry reading series, Lunch Poems at SFU. With Wayde Compton, Renée co-edited The Revolving City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them (Anvil Press/SFU Public Square, 2015). Renée was recently appointed Poet Laureate for the City of Surrey. She collects poems about bees.

Produced, in part, as a handout at Buffalo Small Press Book Fair, April 9-10, 2016, from 11am-5pm at the Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, Porter Hall, 453 Porter Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Much thanks to Chris Fritton for his help and support. http://www.buffalosmallpress.org/

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Irwin, Schmaltz, mclennan, Earl, Barwin, Graham, Abel + Dueck,

Marilyn Irwin now has a blog, which you should (obviously) read, for poems, upcoming readings, publications and anything else she might be up to; Eric Schmaltz reads at UNDEFINED in Toronto with Liz Worth, Lindsay Cahill, Phil Miletic, Juli Bisson Whittom, Andrew James Paterson and POEM (Worth and Jacqueline Valencia) at Playful Grounds, 605 College Street, Toronto on Wednesday, April 23 at 6pm; rob mclennan participates in "My writing process--blog tour," over on his blog, as do tagged authors Amanda Earl and Gary Barwin; and, in case you missed it, Lea Graham was guest blogger over at The Best American Poetry blog for the week of March 11-15, and posted such things as this and this and this and this and this; Lemonhound recently posted Jordan Abel and Renée Saklikar in Conversation: Accumulation as a Political Act; and Nathan Dueck answers the Canadian Poetries questionnaire.