some author activity : Chang-Richardson, Zhang, fitzpatrick, Kelly, Rogal, mclennan + Niespodziany,

Ellen Chang-Richardson has a poem in Paul Vermeersch’s “In the Third Sleep” series; forthcoming author Elena Zhang has new work up at The Bulb Region; Cam Scott interviews ryan fitzpatrick over at his substack; J-T Kelly has new work up at JMWW; Sharon Berg interviews Stan Rogal over at The Temz Review; and rob mclennan has a new poem, with prompt, over at Benjamin Niespodziany's Sunday Poem and Prompt.

some author activity: Saklikar, Eleftherion, Tierney, Cook, Campos, Niespodziany + Rogal,

Renée Sarojini Saklikar is interviewed by The British Columbia Review; Melissa Eleftherion, Orchid Tierney, Juliet Cook, Isabel Sobral Campos and Benjamin Niespodziany all have work up in the new issue of Action, Spectacle; and Stan Rogal has three poems up at The Temz Review.

some author activity: Boyle, Smith, Inniss, Robinson + Rogal,

Frances Boyle has new poems up at talking about strawberries all of the time; Mahaila Smith has new work in the Spotlight series; Scott Inniss has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month; Ben Robinson has a poem up in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; and Stan Rogal is interviewed over at Pinhole Poetry.

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.

some author activity: Rogal, mclennan, Burdick, Jirgens, Browne, Berlatsky + Boyle,

Stan Rogal is interviewed for National Poetry Month at All Lit Up, and a poem by rob mclennan is posted as part of such; rob mclennan has a new poem up at Oatleaf; Alice Burdick is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Karl Jirgens is included in a feature dedicated to the life and work of Lyn Hejinian at Jacket2, as co-edited by forthcoming author Laynie Browne; Noah Berlatsky has a poem up at Oatleaf; and Frances Boyle has a new poem up at Glass: A Journal of Poetry.

some author activity: mclennan, Robertson, Caporaso, Jirgens, van Vliet, Armantrout + Robinson,

rob mclennan has a new poem up at Amsterdam Review, and is interviewed by Stan Rogal for periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics; Lisa Robertson is Vancouver Island University’s (VIU’s) Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poet for 2024-25 and is giving the Ralph Gustafson Distinguished Poet lecture on October 24 from 7 to 8:30 pm on the Nanaimo campus; Angela Caporaso is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where Karl Jirgens also has poems, and Robert van Vliet is also interviewed; Rae Armantrout has a poem up at the Poetry Foundation; and Elizabeth Robinson has new work up at Big Other.

some author activity: Rogal, mclennan, Eleftherion, o'brien + O'Reilly,

Stan Rogal has some new poems up in The Temz Review; rob mclennan participates in Finnian Burnett's 5 Questions interview series; Melissa Eleftherion has four new erasure poems and a short essay on her poetics of reading books that terrify us at a young age over at cul-de-sac of blood; katie o'brien has a poem in the 'poetry pause' series via The League of Canadian Poets; and Nathanael O'Reilly has three new poems up at The Galway Review.

some author activity: Solomon, Berlatsky, Rogal, carisse, Baus + Dreiblatt,

Misha Solomon wrote on the late Ian Stephens for The Fiddlehead; Noah Berlatsky is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where Stan Rogal and russell carisse also have poems; and the video from Eric Baus and Ian Dreiblatt's zoom-reading in Jack Krick's Hugely Popular series is now online.

some author activity: Naughton, Swensen, O'Reilly, Mohammadi, Rogal + Beaulieu,

Katie Naughton is interviewed by Josephine Gawtry for the blog for Colorado Review, as is Cole Swensen, interviewed by Jake Friedman; Nathanael O'Reilly has work in the fourth issue of Saltbush; Khashayar Mohammadi has some new poems in The /tƐmz/ Review, as does Stan Rogal; and Derek Beaulieu offers his 2023 year in review.

some author activity: Mody, Berlatsky, Johnson, Rogal, Morton, Boyle + Kronovet,

Monica Mody has a substack now, and has work featured at Scroll India; five fleas has published a short poem by Noah Berlatsky; Chris Johnson is interviewed by Andrew French for the Page Fright Podcast; Stan Rogal, Colin Morton and Frances Boyle each have new work in the latest issue of Pinhole Poetry; and Jennifer Kronovet has new work up at Zocalo: Public Square.

some author activity: mclennan, Robertson, Rogal, Maloukis + Niespodziany,

rob mclennan takes the Galaxy Brain Questionnaire over at Michael Murray's Galaxy Brain; Lisa Robertson writes on the colour rose for Cabinet magazine; Stan Rogal has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Rose Maloukis has a poem in the "Tuesday poem" series via the dusie blog; and Benjamin Niespodziany has a one-sentence story over at MonkeyBicycle.

new from above/ground press: 13 more songs the radio won’t play …, by Stan Rogal

13 more songs the radio won’t play …
Stan Rogal
$5

Comes Love

Why, baby, why, baby, why, baby, why?
Questions of the soon-to-be-slain.
Where fat grim orange jack-o-lanterns leer
& empty vases you endow with flowers
fill the gloom.
That’s all brother (don’t try hiding).
Comes love, nothing can be done.

It’s a cheating situation, yes?
Love shall be blonder, slimmer, younger.
Will be the bomb, the door in the wall,
an offer of instantaneous intimacy,
of perpetual (e)motion.
That’s all brother (don’t try hiding).
Comes love, nothing can be done.

Ah, sweet easing away of all edge, evil & surprise!
The sometimes mouth that masticates or gags.
Everything that acts is actual.
(I believe it’s the auratic quality that sucks one in).
Comes a sad song, give your nose a little blow.
Comes the devil, you can tell him where to go.
Comes love?
That’s all brother (don’t try hiding).         
Comes love, nothing can be done.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
December 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Stan Rogal lives and writes in relative obscurity in the hamlet known as Toronto. He has been rumoured to have published widely and is the apparent author of 25 books (6 novels, 7 story and 12 poetry) and several chapbooks (most with above/ground press). He is a former Master bowler and retired dart champion.  

This is Rogal’s sixth above/ground press chapbook, after In Search of the Emerald City (1997), “THE CELEBRITY RAG: Opá” (STANZAS #44, March 2006), All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2004), muscle memory (2018) and ALAS & ALACK (2020).

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 rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: Rogal, Collis, Downs + Niespodziany,

Stan Rogal has some poems up at The Pi Review; a poem by Stephen Collis is discussed by Pattie McCarthy, Kate Colby and Lily Applebaum via the Jacket2 podcast PoemTalk; an article (with interview) on Buck Downs' latest project, "The Poet Posting Stickers All Over Washington D.C.," is covered by The Click; and Benjamin Niespodziany is interviewed over at the new podcast We All Speak In Poems.

some author activity: Collis, Rogal, Tierney + Boyle,

Stephen Collis is featured in the "Spotlight" series; Stan Rogal has new poems up at talking about strawberries all of the time, as well as an interview; Orchid Tierney is also interviewed there; and Frances Boyle has a new poem up at The Maynard.

some author activity: Graham, Stuart, Konchan, Simpson, Siklosi, Turner + Rogal,

Lea Graham has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Kate Siklosi (a collaboration with psw) and Cecilia Stuart and even Virginia Konchan; Natalie Simpson has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Michael Turner is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Stan Rogal has new poems up at where is the river.

some author activity: Braune, Brenza, Barwin, Etherin, Boyle + Rogal,

Sean Braune is interviewed over at Talking about strawberries all of the time, as is forthcoming author Andrew Brenza, where Gary Barwin also has some visual poems; Gary Barwin also writes on grant writing as part of his writer-in-residence blog via Sheridan College; Anthony Etherin has two new poems up at The Pi Review; Frances Boyle has three new poems up at Floodlight Editions; and Stan Rogal has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal.

some author activity: Farina, Paty, Armantrout, Earl, Rogal + Stuart,

Laura Farina is interviewed via Chaudiere Books; Allyson Paty has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at dusie; Rae Armantrout has two new poems up at the London Review of Books; Amanda Earl is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where both Cecilia Stuart and Stan Rogal also have poems.

some author activity: Eleftherion, Rogal, Clayton, Polyck-O'Neill, Christie + Trivedi

Melissa Eleftherion has some poems up at the tiny; Stan Rogal is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Conyer Clayton is profiled over at Open Book; Julia Polyck-O'Neill has new work up at IceFloe Press; Jason Christie has a new poem up at at the Coach House Books blog; and Amish Trivedi has new work up at the re-launched Can We Have Our Ball Back?

some author activity: Spinosa, Barwin, Sikkema, Earl, Rogal + Siklosi,

Dani Spinosa begins her residency at Open Book with an article that references Gary Barwin and Michael Sikkema, which you should totally read; Amanda Earl has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month; Stan Rogal has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; and Kate Siklosi has a new essay in the Talking Poetics series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

new from above/ground press: ALAS & ALACK, by Stan Rogal

ALAS & ALACK
Stan Rogal
$5

My problem is I’m one of those soft machines that sometimes explodes

for no apparent reason.

My problem is I’m futile; floating in a void.

My problem is I’m counter-productive to the existing order.

My problem is mind the gap.

My problem is your basic Existential Angst & its accompanying

pathetic hang-dog attitude.

My problem is fear of my own existence (if, indeed, I do exist,

outside myself). [Italics mine]

My problem is I’m an accident constantly happening.

My problem is I’m a Zombie flick that lacks teeth & faints at

the sight of blood, especially my own.

My problem is I lack nomenclature.

My problem is I’ve seen the best minds of my generation

destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…

My problem is, okay, I only wish I’ve seen the best minds of my

generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked…

My problem is I sing the body electric, though slightly off-key or in the wrong key

altogether & what’s it to you?

My problem is they have a name for the winners of the world &

I want a name when I lose.

My problem is I’m on a mission from God.

My problem is the devil made me do it.

My problem is I’d walk a mile for a Camel.

My problem is is it live or is it Memorex?

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2020
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Stan Rogal lives and writes in relative obscurity in the hamlet known as Toronto. He has been rumoured to have published widely and is the apparent author of 25 books (6 novels, 7 story and 12 poetry) and several chapbooks (most with above/ground press). He is a former Master bowler and retired dart champion. 

This is Rogal’s fifth above/ground press chapbook, after In Search of the Emerald City (1997), “THE CELEBRITY RAG: Opá” (STANZAS #44, March 2006), All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace (2004) and muscle memory (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