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: Cone, Eleftherion, Armantrout, Skrabalek + Gontarek,

forthcoming author Jon Cone has new work up at Ant5; Melissa Eleftherion has new work up at Moira; Rae Armantrout has a new poem, "craft talk," up at The Best American Poetry blog; the video recording of Ryan Skrabalek's Woolsey Heights reading in South Berkeley, California, alongside Cecily Nicholson, Ted Rees and Joni Flint Gonzales, is now online; and I missed it before, but apparently Maxwell Gontarek had some work online as part of the online journal for Pamenar Press.

some author activity: Boughn, Mohammadi, Rogal, Reid, Skrabalak + Smith,

Michael Boughn has a new poem up for National Poetry Month, over at the Chaudiere Books blog; Khashayar Mohammadi has a new write-up at Etcetera; Stan Rogal and Monty Reid have poems in the new issue of Pinhole Poetry, and Reid also has new work up at talking about strawberries all of the time; Ryan Skrabalak has new work in Noir Sauna; and Mahaila Smith is interviewed by Myna Chang.

new from above/ground press: THE ORCHIDS, by Ryan Skrabalak

THE ORCHIDS
Ryan Skrabalak
$5

What all I’m about to share
Misters, is the tape running
Or dripping down my pricked calve
These men fill me up
With velocity and skin for death
In a way I’ve come to realize
Torture is a distillate of reality

This land isn’t your land
You are being detained. Also
Fix a quick mix of piss and coins
Lay your tongue over the zinc
You can’t buy your way out
Upload your death
Drive at earliest convenience

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2025
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Ryan Skrabalak most recently wrote National Lube (speCt!, 2024) and The Technicolor Sycamore 10,000 Afternoon Family Earth Band Revue (Ursus Americanus, 2024), among other chapbooks. He lives in "Kingston, New York," where he runs and edits Spiral Editions, a poetry press.

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