some author activity: Ross, Melançon, Brockwell, Marshall + Pirie,

Stuart Ross offers his annual New Year's poem, over at his blog; Jérôme Melançon is interviewed via the Chaudiere Books "Six Questions" series; Stephen Brockwell is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Sara Renee Marshall has a new poem and statement up in the Spotlight series; and Pearl Pirie wrote on E. Pauline Johnson for many gendered mothers.

Pearl Pirie's Best Reads of 2018 so far: Marshall, hanna + Ross,

Ottawa poet, editor, publisher, critic and blogger (and above/ground press author) Pearl Pirie was good enough to include three above/ground press titles in her extensive "Best Reads of 2018 so far" list. Thanks so much! She included Sara Renee Marshall's The Landscapes were in my arms (figure 2) (2018), natalie hanna's Concealed Weapons/Animal Survivors (2018) and Stuart Ross' Espesantes (2018). You can read the full list of her "Best Reads of 2018 so far" here. And did I mention that all three titles are still available? Hooray!

new from above/ground press: The Landscapes Were in My Arms (figure 2), by Sara Renee Marshall

The Landscapes Were in My Arms (figure 2)
Sara Renee Marshall
$5

We’re outside for this image, hugging the hedge, the only green known to dusklight.    It’s neither a quick dissolution nor a negligible mist. Pictures echo in, echo out: a house, a cradle trimmed in signal static. You’re standing before a gauzy rampart draped indifferently over horizon. Naively I call this home.

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

Sara Renee Marshall hails from the queen city of the plains, Denver, Colorado. Her writing has appeared in Poor Claudia, Colorado Review, OmniVerse, jubilat, in chapbooks, and elsewhere. She holds a degree in Political Science and an MFA in Poetry, both from University of Colorado. Sara is now completing a PhD at University of Georgia. With Thomas and Rosa Bernadette, she lives and writes in Atlanta.

This is Marshall’s second above/ground press chapbook, after The Landscapes Were in My Arms (figure 1) (2018).

To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; in US, add $2; outside North America, add $5) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

new from above/ground press: The Landscapes Were in My Arms (figure 1), by Sara Renee Marshall

The Landscapes Were in My Arms (figure 1)
by Sara Renee Marshall
$5

Every morning, I come into my kitchen

or this kitchen wears the ghosts of yours

I calibrate at the stove—the scene sucked

furtively toward a field usurped by a pinhole

I move my head back and forth and inhale

cautiously. I want to shake the house

out of the air, open somewhere greener

There’s the grainy picture we make with words

and the picture hovering, ambient as arms

I’m made there, hand-guided into the day

If I rewind, I risk. I revive the same

little death. As if new light alive

on the wall doesn’t deliver enough cruelty

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

Sara Renee Marshall hails from the queen city of the plains, Denver, Colorado. Her writing has appeared in Poor Claudia, Colorado Review, OmniVerse, jubilat, dusie, in chapbooks, and elsewhere. She holds a degree in Political Science and an MFA in Poetry, both from University of Colorado. Sara is now completing a PhD at University of Georgia. With Thomas and Rosa Bernadette, she lives and writes in Atlanta.

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: Notley, Marshall, Schmaltz, hanna + Earl,

Alice Notley is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; forthcoming author Sara Renee Marshall is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Eric Schmaltz will be editing an anthology of concrete and visual poetry for Knife Fork Book and is seeking submissions; and natalie hanna has some new work up at Canthius, as does Amanda Earl.

some author activity: Barwin, Marshall, Burgoyne + Earl,

[our new above/ground press storage shelves] Gary Barwin has a new poem up at NewPoetry; forthcoming author Sara Renee Marshall has a new essay as part of my (small press) writing day, as does Sarah Burgoyne; and Amanda Earl has a new poem over at Queen Mob's Teahouse.