The Robert Kroetsch Award Shortlist: Lea Graham + Laurie Fuhr

Congratulations to above/ground press authors Lea Graham and Laurie Fuhr, included on the 2016 shortlist for The Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry!

Calgary poet and musician Laurie Fuhr is the author of the above/ground press chapbook accident: a chain reaction (1999), and Lea Graham, originally from Arkansas, is the author of the above/ground press chapbook Calendar Girls (2006) and co-author (with rob mclennan) of the collaboration metric (2011).

Graham's chapbook, This End of the World: Notes to Robert Kroetsch (Apt. 9 Press), is forthcoming in April.

Judged this year by George Elliott Clarke, the current Parliamentary Poet Laureate, the complete shortlist reads:

Micheline Maylor
Diandre Prendimano
Lea Graham
Ian Kinney
Geoffrey Babbitt
Paul Zits
Laurie Fuhr

The winner will be announced mid-March! See here for the full press release.

above/ground press authors MacLean and Dachsel make the Robert Kroetsh Award shortlist!

Congratulations to all who have made the Robert Kroetsch Award shortlist: Kathy Mac, Kath MacLean, Michael Nardone, Laura Broadbent, Nathan Dueck, Marita Dachsel and Jeremy Stewart.

Kath MacLean's above/ground press chapbook, ten: ways to skin a cat (2003), is still available for $3, but, unfortunately, Marita Dachsel's Learning to Breathe (1996) is long out of print. Still, other items of hers are still available here and here.

Looking forward to seeing the finished book by the winner, and perhaps, a few others as well.