Showing posts with label Susanne Dyckman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Susanne Dyckman. Show all posts
Saturday, August 9, 2025
some author activity: Sandhu, Mellis, Scroggins, Dyckman, Robinson, Witte, Rosenthal + Massey,
Saturday, February 22, 2025
some author activity: Boyle, Robinson, Dyckman, Earl + Deutch,
Saturday, October 5, 2024
some author activity: Praamsma, Dyckman, Novak, Barwin + Beaulieu,
Saturday, February 18, 2023
some author activity: Blades, mclennan, Dyckman, Robinson, Townsend + Pakdel,
Saturday, April 23, 2022
some author activity: Graf, Mody, Lea, Pirie, Armantrout, Anstee, Dyckman + mclennan (plus Pakdel launch info!
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
new from above/ground press: Hearing Loss, by Susanne Dyckman
Susanne Dyckman
$5
Ash, posy, shroud. The looming shadow grief casts. Grief as a geode. Morning, mourning, confusion. An utterance to distinguish.
Deny, decipher, demand. M sounds, D sounds. Swallowing air, gulping vowels. Wait for the inevitable. Forestall.
To spell is to write, to spell is to cast magic. Tossed everywhere, confetti of words. The spell is the naming. I whisper the name, an invocation, invitation. The need to repeat.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Susanne Dyckman’s most recent collection of poetry is A Dark Ordinary (Furniture Press Books). She is also the author of equilibrium’s form (Shearsman Books) and three chapbooks, Counterweight, Transiting Indigo, and Source. Her work has been published in a variety of journals, and a new chapbook written in collaboration with Elizabeth Robinson from Dancing Girl Press. She has co-edited both Five Fingers Review and Instance Press, and for a number of years hosted the Evelyn Ave. reading series. She lives and writes in Albany, California.
This is Dyckman’s second above/ground press chapbook, after Source (2014).
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
Saturday, March 9, 2019
some author activity: Pirie, Prevost, Robinson, Dyckman, Coulton, Smallfield, Wilkinson + Banu,
Saturday, November 10, 2018
some author activity: Siklosi, Robinson, mclennan, Earl + Dyckman,
Wednesday, June 13, 2018
above/ground press 25th anniversary essay: Susanne Dyckman
This is the twentieth
in a series of short essays/reminiscences by a variety of authors and friends
of the press to help mark the quarter century mark of above/ground. See links to the whole series here.
The air coming
through the open window smells sweet as I write this. The fog has rolled back out past the Golden
Gate and the sun is shining in the San
Francisco Bay
area.
Sweet is not a word that I normally use in the context of poetry. But it’s the word rolling around my mind, without the saccharine qualities it’s taken on, deservedly or not. Perhaps I’m linking it to acts of generosity, or, as the thesaurus tells me, a state of being kind, thoughtful, considerate, caring. And rob mclennan’s devotion to poetry and the poetry community is just that — kind, thoughtful, considerate and caring.
above/ground press first came to my attention by way of a friend who suggested it as a place to submit work and/or a chapbook, though that suggestion was made only a few years ago. So while I can’t speak to the origins of above/ground, I can speak to what it is now. As a poet in the U.S., I’ve experienced the challenges of publishing as one small press after another vanishes, or, due to the difficulties of financing, become electronic issues only. And then I was introduced to rob and his publications. Here was someone who answered emails and accepted work quickly and enthusiastically. Someone who, while caring for his daughters and baking bread, put out one edition after another, much of it in print, hand-stapled, packed up, mailed. Poetry loved and living on the page.
That, like today’s sweet air, is a pleasure.
As I follow rob’s literary adventures by way of Facebook, through his blog, and from his emails, I am continually struck by his energy and enthusiasm. He makes room for poetry of all kinds, he welcomes the written word daily. Living in what is now “the time of Trump”, rob has eliminated the borders that my government is intent on building. He publishes poets I recognize and those I am pleased to discover. While I’ve never met him in person, I’ve taken to calling him my northern friend, knowing that he’s not mine alone, but an advocate of poetry across visible and invisible lines.
His are acts of dedication and devotion to language. Happy 25th anniversary to above/ground press. We need you, I thank you.
Sweet is not a word that I normally use in the context of poetry. But it’s the word rolling around my mind, without the saccharine qualities it’s taken on, deservedly or not. Perhaps I’m linking it to acts of generosity, or, as the thesaurus tells me, a state of being kind, thoughtful, considerate, caring. And rob mclennan’s devotion to poetry and the poetry community is just that — kind, thoughtful, considerate and caring.
above/ground press first came to my attention by way of a friend who suggested it as a place to submit work and/or a chapbook, though that suggestion was made only a few years ago. So while I can’t speak to the origins of above/ground, I can speak to what it is now. As a poet in the U.S., I’ve experienced the challenges of publishing as one small press after another vanishes, or, due to the difficulties of financing, become electronic issues only. And then I was introduced to rob and his publications. Here was someone who answered emails and accepted work quickly and enthusiastically. Someone who, while caring for his daughters and baking bread, put out one edition after another, much of it in print, hand-stapled, packed up, mailed. Poetry loved and living on the page.
That, like today’s sweet air, is a pleasure.
As I follow rob’s literary adventures by way of Facebook, through his blog, and from his emails, I am continually struck by his energy and enthusiasm. He makes room for poetry of all kinds, he welcomes the written word daily. Living in what is now “the time of Trump”, rob has eliminated the borders that my government is intent on building. He publishes poets I recognize and those I am pleased to discover. While I’ve never met him in person, I’ve taken to calling him my northern friend, knowing that he’s not mine alone, but an advocate of poetry across visible and invisible lines.
His are acts of dedication and devotion to language. Happy 25th anniversary to above/ground press. We need you, I thank you.
Susanne Dyckman’s most recent collection of poetry is A Dark Ordinary (Furniture Press Books).
She is also the author of equilibrium’s form (Shearsman Books) and three chapbooks, Counterweight, Transiting
Indigo, and Source (above/ground
press, 2014). Her work has appeared in a variety of journals as well as in the Paper Kite Press and As if it Fell from the Sun (EtherDome) anthologies. She has taught creative writing at both the University of San Francisco
and San
Francisco State University, and has
been a co-editor of Five Fingers Review and Instance Press. She lives and
writes in Albany, California.
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Poetry Flash (Oakland CA) with Susanne Dyckman and Elizabeth Robinson, September 11, 2016
Poetry Flash readings are wheelchair accessible. ASL interpreters may be requested one week in advance from editor@poetryflash.org. Visit Poetryflash.org for more events and reviews!
Susanne Dyckman’s new book of poems is A Dark Ordinary. George Albon says, “A Dark Ordinary is concerned with a double struggle, that of imagining the words of the early twentieth century immigrants denied civil voices, through the always mute barriers of the photographic record…Dyckman’s poems are courageous attempts to puncture this hard double membrane.” She is also the author of the collection Equilibrium’s Form and three chapbooks, as well as being the co-editor of Instance Press.
Elizabeth Robinson’s most recent book of poems is On Ghosts. Andrew Joron says, “On Ghosts returns us to the haunted aura around words. Here, a crossing of genres—poetry, prose meditation, and personal testimony—shows that language itself amounts to a gathering of ghosts. Robinson’s oblique lyricism beckons us toward a twilight zone where we become ‘witness to the unverifiable.’ This is writing as the highest form of bewitching." Robinson's previous books include Counterpart, Blue Heron, Three Novels: Poems, House Made of Silver, Also Know As, Inaudible Trumpeters, Under That Silky Roof, and Apprehend, winner of the 2003 Fence Modern Poets Prize. She has received grants from the Fund for Poetry, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and the Boomerang Foundation, and recently served as the Hugo Fellow at the University of Montana.
As well, Susanne Dyckman's above/ground press chapbook, Source (2014), as well as Elizabeth Robinson's above/ground press chapbook, Simplified Holy Passage (2015), are still very much available!
Saturday, May 21, 2016
some author activity: mclennan, Dyckman, Smith, Kaminski, Hogg + Turnbull,
Thursday, May 14, 2015
Scott Bryson reviews Susanne Dyckman's Source (2014) in Broken Pencil #67
Scott
Bryson was good enough to review Susanne Dyckman’s Source (2014) in BrokenPencil #67. Thanks, Scott!
This review will contain nearly as many words
as the dozen poems in Source
combined. Empty space plays as important a role here as the text does. These
verses are meant to be read with a specific tempo (a slow one) – their words
are spread vertically, horizontally and across pages.
While the poems in this
collection are titled simply – “:family,” “:sister” and “:city” – this is far
from straightforward material. The text of each poem is meant to equate to what’s
listed in the title, as the colons in the titles suggest; however, some
contemplation is required to determine how lines like “borrowing or digging /
where water will not flow easy,” might relate to the concept of “:city.” There are
shorter, untitled missives interspersed between Source’s primary poems, which seem to be a mixture of prayers,
confessions and proverbs, and are considerably more enigmatic: “I confess to
seraphs / the word I strike / is bread / is servant / is forever.”
Thematically, Susanne
Dyckman appears to be analyzing the divide between disconnectedness and
belonging, with the prayerful intermissions reading like a search for relief. In
the final poem, “:home,” the opposing notions make a final collision in a
series of lines that gets to the root of Dyckman’s struggle: “Something near,
cherished, / but how to cherish // that which is also the same as end.” It’s a
bittersweet conclusion to a cycle that hints at a lot by saying little.
Saturday, March 21, 2015
some author activity: Armantrout, Earl, Irwin, Dyckman, beaulieu + Pirie,
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Ryan Pratt reviews Touch the Donkey #s 1-3
Saturday, October 18, 2014
some author activity: Dyckman, beaulieu, Betts + Armantrout,
Saturday, October 11, 2014
some author activity: Schapira, Earl, Abel, Dyckman + Moritz,
Saturday, September 27, 2014
some author activity: Kaminksi, Dyckman, Carr, hastain + Ursuliak,
Monday, July 28, 2014
Touch the Donkey: self-profile and the release of the second issue!
Email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com if you wish to be included on either the Touch the Donkey or above/ground press email lists for updates as well.
Watch the Touch the Donkey blog over the next few weeks for interviews with issue #2 contributors Pearl Pirie, David Peter Clark, Julie Carr, Susan Holbrook, Susanne Dyckman and Catherine Wagner!
Touch the Donkey. There's more than one way to get high, baby.
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
new from above/ground press: Source, by Susanne Dyckman
Susanne Dyckman
$4
:family
arranging, one can suppose,
a plate, bowl, water in a jar
simplicity, for others to enjoy
more action than story
daily service given
to first syllables
ma and pa,
though expelled
from the mouth
made kin
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
July 2014
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Cover image excerpted from a photograph by gadl (Alexandre Duret-Lutz), Creative Commons Public License.
Susanne Dyckman is the author of a full-length book of poetry, equilibrium’s form (Shearsman), and two chapbooks, Counterweight (Woodland Editions) and Transiting Indigo (EtherDome Press). She was a co-editor of Five Fingers Review and has recently begun working with Instance Press. She has taught creative writing at both San Francisco State University and the University of San Francisco, and lives in Albany, California, where she curates the Evelyn Avenue summer reading series.
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
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Susanne Dyckman at the Bay Area Poetry Marathon
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