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Saturday, April 15, 2023
some author activity: mclennan, Barton, Deutch, Bolster, Boyle + Niespodziany,
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rob mclennan has a new(ish) poem up on his blog; John Barton has a poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Amanda Deutch, and so does Stephanie Bolster; Frances Boyle has new work up at Dust Poetry Magazine; and Benjamin Niespodziany has new work up at HAD, as well as The Boiler.
2026 subscriptions now available!
NOW AVAILABLE! groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing,
photo by Isabella Wang
a small poetry magazine,
founded July 1993 : CELEBRATING THIRTY-PLUS YEARS OF CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY + MORE THAN 1400 PUBLICATIONS TO DATE! Ottawa-based poetry chapbook + broadside publisher; publisher of The Peter F. Yacht Club (a writer's group magazine) + Touch the Donkey (a small poetry magazine) + G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] + periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, as well as home of The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993); edited/published/curated by rob mclennan
2026 subscriptions now available!
NOW AVAILABLE! groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press: 2013–2023 (Invisible Publishing,
upcoming events and appearances!
Julia Polyck-O'Neill reads with a handful of other local poets as part of World Poetry Day, March 19, 2026 (St John's NL);
Misha Solomon, Jennifer Baker, Lydia Unsworth, Jérôme Melançon, Nada Gordon, Stephanie Bolster and Kacper Bartczak (among many others) perform as part of VERSeFest: Ottawa's International Poetry Festival, March 24-29, 2026 (Ottawa ON);
Julie Carr, Sarah Rosenthal, Jake Syersak, Orchid Tierney, Lindsey Webb, Joseph Mosconi, Carrie Olivia Adams, Ryan Skrabalak, Ryan Greene, Isabel Sobral Campos, MC Hyland, Amanda Deutch, Michael Martin Shea, Katie Ebbitt and Jessica Smith (among many others) perform as part of the New Orleans Poetry Festival, April 17-19, 2026 (New Orleans LA);
rob mclennan reads at Planet Earth Poetry, April 24, 2026 (Victoria BC);
above/ground press at the ottawa small press book fair, June 20, 2026 (Ottawa ON);
recent above/ground chapbooks
photo by Isabella Wang
recent and forthcoming titles from Jon Cone, Dag T. Straumsvåg, Sarah Burgoyne and Clara Yeager, ryan fitzpatrick, Stuart Ross and Jason Camlot, Misha Solomon, Stephanie Bolster, Susan Rudy, Shelly Harder, David Phillips, Mrityunjay Mohan, The Peter F Yacht Club #36 : 2026 VERSeFest Special, Jennifer Baker, rob mclennan, Travis Sharp, John Levy, Christina Wells, Sarah Burgoyne, Ken Sparling, Jake Kennedy, Dawn Macdonald, Noah Sparrow, Glenn Bach, Words and Image / Entre mots et images, eds./dir. Véronique Sylvain and/de David O’Meara, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #48, Jon Cone and K.Lipschutz, Robert van Vliet, Rose Maloukis, Grant Wilkins, Gary Barwin, Sonja Greckol/Rosío Céron, Pearl Pirie, Jill Stengel, Kevin Spenst (and friends), Salem Paige, N.W. Lea, Buck Downs, David Gaffney, Frances Cannon, Jimmy T Cahill, Amanda Earl, Micah Anthony Cavaleri, Benjamin Niespodziany, Cary Fagan and Rebecca Comay, Guy Birchard, MLA Chernoff, Lance La Rocque, russell carisse, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #47, Jeremy Luke Hill, Lillian Nećakov, Kate Siklosi, Charlotte Jung and Johannes S.H. Bjerg, Eudore Évanturel (trans. by Jamie Sharpe, Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Jason Heroux, Ken Norris, Jon Cone, Ben Ladouceur, Yaxkin Melchy (trans. by Ryan Greene, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Michael Sikkema, Laynie Browne, Nada Gordon, Stuart Ross, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Noah Berlatsky, Andrew Brenza, Mandy Sandhu, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #46, Lina Ramona Vitkauskas, Steph Gray, Beatriz Hausner, Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage, eds./dir. Véronique Sylvain and/de David O’Meara, Leah Souffrant, J-T Kelly, Terri Witek, R. Kolewe, Jason Christie, Micah Ballard, Monty Reid, Tom Jenks, Orchid Tierney, Brook Houglum, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #45, Meredith Quartermain, Sandra Doller, The Peter F Yacht Club #35 : 2025 VERSeFest Special, Eileen Myles, Gregory Crosby, Kevin Davies, Lori Anderson Moseman, Thor Polukoshko, Lydia Unsworth, Ryan Skrabalak, Jacob Braun, Cary Fagan, Gwen Aube, Penn Kemp, Maxwell Gontarek, Nathanael O'Reilly, the suitcase poem, ed. Amanda Earl, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #44, Catriona Strang, Andy Weaver, Alice Burdick, The Peter F Yacht Club #34 : 2024 Holiday Special, Jason Heroux and Dag T. Straumsvag, Carter McKenzie, Dani Spinosa, JoAnna Novak, Julia Cohen, Susan Gevirtz, Drew McEwan, Conal Smiley, Sue Landers, Nate Logan, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #43, Alexander Hammond Benedict, Mckenzie Strath, Vik Shirley, Ian FitzGerald, Peter Jaeger, ryan fitzpatrick, Scott Inniss, Shane Rhodes, Mahaila Smith, Gil McElroy, Carlos A. Pittella, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #42, Chris Banks, M.A.C. Farrant, Helen Hajnoczky, Kacper Bartczak (trans. by Mark Tardi, Saba Pakdel, Hope Anderson, Sacha Archer, Peter Myers, Julia Polyck-O'Neill, Kyla Houbolt, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #41 (TENTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE), Dale Tracy, Phil Hall + Steven Ross Smith, The Peter F Yacht Club #33 : 2024 VERSeFest Special, Melissa Eleftherion, Jacob Wren, Katie Ebbitt, Amanda Deutch, Kyle Flemmer, Pete Smith, Clint Burnham, Angela Caporaso, Blunt Research Group, A Crown of Omnivorous Teeth: poems in honour of Chris Johnson and raccoons in general, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #40, Zane Koss, Ben Robinson, Colin Dardis, Aaron Tucker, Adriana Oniță, Julie Carr + rob mclennan, Stephen Collis, Rae Armantrout, Nikki Reimer, Miranda Mellis, Marita Dachsel, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #39,Report from the fitzpatrick Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Kevin Stebner, Meghan Kemp-Gee, Stephen Cain, Geoffrey Olsen, Heather Cadsby, Evan Williams, nina jane drystek, Sophia Magliocca, Karen Massey, Jérôme Melançon, Jamie Hilder, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #38, George Bowering + Artie Gold, Ryan Stearne, Brad Vogler, Andrew Gorin, Report from the Pirie Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Julia Drescher, Joseph Donato, Samuel Ace, Leesa Dean, Report from the Reimer Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #37, Jessi MacEachern, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #26, Jordan Davis, The Peter F Yacht Club #32 : 2023 VERSeFest Special, Report from the Smith Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Nick Chhoeun, Ben Jahn, William Vallières, Report from the Iijima Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Derek Beaulieu, Isabel Sobral Campos, Mark Scroggins, Laura Walker, Report from the Trivedi Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Lindsey Webb, Barbara Henning, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #25, Touch the Donkey #36, The Peter F Yacht Club #31, Douglas Glover, Report from the Hogg Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #24, Melanie Dennis Unrau, Report from the McCarthy Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Report from the Hajnoczky Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Adrienne Adams, Chris Johnson, Geoffrey Nilson, Genevieve Kaplan, Melissa Spohr Weiss, Christopher Patton, Leigh Chadwick, Report from the Mangold Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Report from the Betts Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Report from the Hall Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Touch the Donkey #34, Report from the Anstee Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Jed Munson, David Miller, Matthew Gwathmey, Report from the Reid Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Michael Boughn, Laura Kelsey, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #23, Report from the Robinson Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Anne Tardos, Report from the Siklosi Society. Vol. 1 No. 1 + No. 2, Vivan Lewin, Wade Bell, Joanna Arnott, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #22, Rob Manery, Report from the Ross Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #21, Report from the Earl Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Report from the Brockwell Society. Vol. 1 No. 1, Karl Jirgens, df parizeau, Wanda Praamsma, Michael Schuffler, Calling to the Sun: Poems for Isabella Wang, Touch the Donkey #32, Natalie Simpson, Stan Rogal, the Peter F. Yacht Club #30 [the virtual issue], Sean Braune and Émilie Dionne, Urië V-J, Sarah Rosenthal, Simon Brown, Mayan Godmaire, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #20, Phil Hall, Kevin Varrone, Susan Rukeyser, Barry McKinnon, Terri Witek and Amaranth Borsuk, George Bowering, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #19, Franklin Bruno, Emily Izsak, Jen Tynes, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #18, Valerie Witte, Robert Hogg, Ken Sparling, Jessi MacEachern, Nathan Alexander Moore, Katie Naughton, Summer Brenner, Monica Mody, Kōan Anne Brink, Gregory Betts, Touch the Donkey #30, Jamie Townsend, Conor Mc Donnell, Adam Thomlison, Alyssa Bridgman, James Lindsay, Amish Trivedi, Ava Hofmann, Sandra Moussempès (trans. Eléna Rivera), Edward Smallfield, Valerie Coulton, James Hawes, Anik See, David Dowker, Shelly Harder, Alexander Joseph, Joseph Mosconi, Brenda Iijima, Al Kratz, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #16, Saeed Tavanaee Marvi (trans. Khashayar Mohammadi), katie o'brien, The Peter F Yacht Club #29, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #15, Dennis Cooley, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #14, rob mclennan and Gary Barwin, Kristjana Gunnars, Baron Rocco Fleetcrest-Seacobs, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #13, Cecilia Tamburri Stuart, Keith Waldrop, Amelia Does, Franco Cortese, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Billy Mavreas, Sarah Burgoyne and Susan Burgoyne, Paul Perry, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #12, Kemeny Babineau, Misha Solomon, Andrew Cantrell, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #11, Michael e. Casteels + Nick Papaxanthos, Ashley Yang-Thompson + Mikko Harvey, Khashayar Mohammadi, Andrea Rexilius, G UE S T [a journal of guest editors] #10, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #9, Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] #25, George Stanley, The Peter F. Yacht Club #28 ; VERSeFest (postponement) special, Rachel Kearney, J.R. Carpenter, Razielle Aigen, Anthony Etherin, Eric Baus, Ian McCulloch, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #8, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #7, Jessica Smith, Mary Kasimor, Margaret Christakos, Allyson Paty, Hawad (trans. Jake Syersak), Simina Banu, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #6, Andrew K Peterson, Susanne Dyckman, John Newlove, Ben Meyerson, Natalie Lyalin, Michael Dennis, Jane Virginia Rohrer, Chris Turnbull, Marilyn Irwin, Conyer Clayton, Frances Boyle, Kemeny Babineau, Mairéad Byrne, Kimberly Campanello, Kyle Kinaschuk, Gil McElroy, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #2, The Peter F. Yacht Club #27, Claudia Coutu Radmore, Heather Sweeney, R. Kolewe, Evan Gray, Dale Smith, Virginia Konchan, Joshua James Collis, Laura Farina, Jennifer Stella, Sarah Mangold, bodies and breath: a summer workshop anthology, Cole Swensen, MC Hyland, G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] #1, Megan Kaminski, Sara Renee Marshall, Mark Laliberte, Lisa Rawn, Sean Braune, Michael Martin Shea, Ian Dreiblatt, Uxío Novoneyra (trans. Erín Moure), Stephen Brockwell, Phil Hall / Stuart Kinmond, natalie hanna, Miguel E. Ortiz Rodríguez, Natalee Caple, Beth Ayer, Jon Boisvert, Jenna Jarvis, Lise Downe, Allison Cardon, Lea Graham, Tim Atkins, Gregory Betts + Arnold McBay, Andrew Wessels, Marthe Reed, The Peter F. Yacht Club #26, Steve McCaffery, Gary Barwin and Tom Prime, Gary Barwin and Alice Burdick, Alice Notley, Rachel Mindell, Eleni Zisimatos, Adrienne Gruber, Anna Gurton-Wachter, Matthew Johnstone, Alyssa Bridgman, Elizabeth Robinson, Eric Schmaltz, Joe Blades, Katy Lederer, Kristina Drake, Stephanie Bolster, Adele Graf, Sarah Dowling, nathan dueck, Sarah Cook, Ian Whistle, Faizal Deen, The Peter F. Yacht Club #25, Marilyn Irwin, Lisa Robertson, Jordan Abel, Sarah Fox, Jake Syersak, philip miletic, Geoffrey Young, Carrie Hunter, Sarah Swan, John Barton, Carrie Olivia Adams, Dana Claxton, Michael Turner, Christian Bök, Neil Flowers, Lesley Yalen, Braydon Beaulieu, Bronwen Tate, lary timewell, The Peter F. Yacht Club #24, Yuri Izdryk (trans. Roman Ivashkiv and Erín Moure), rob's fall 2015 poetry workshop participants, Katie L. Price, Roland Prevost, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Hugh Thomas, Nicole Markotić, damian lopes, Jamie Bradley, Jennifer Kronovet, Kate Schapira, Susanne Dyckman, Emily Ursuliak, Eric Baus, Rachel Moritz, Janice Tokar, Sharon Harris, Noah Eli Gordon, Dennis Tourbin, Sarah Rosenthal, Camille Martin, Hailey Higdon, Marcus McCann, Christine McNair and rob mclennan, Rosmarie Waldrop, Wanda O'Connor, Two Dutch Poets: Hélène Gelèns and Erik Lindner, Kaia Sand, Amy Dennis, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Abby Paige, Brecken Hancock, Shannon Maguire, Mark Cochrane, Deborah Poe, Cameron Anstee, Rob Manery, George Elliott Clarke, Jay MillAr, Kathryn MacLeod, Fenn Stewart, j/j hastain, Phil Hall + Andrew Burke, Deanna Young, Barry McKinnon, Michael Blouin + Elizabeth Rainer, Eric Folsom, Paige Ackerson-Kiely, Robert Kroetsch and dozens upon dozens of others...
periodicities : a journal of poetry and poetics
The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993,
above/ground press 25th anniversary essays
reviews of our titles!
The Peter F. Yacht Club; occasional writer's group journal + annual Xmas party/reading/regatta!
small press book fairs we love
above/ground press "poem" broadsides
author interviews,
ottawater: Ottawa's annual poetry pdf journal
Touch the Donkey
a small poetry magazine,
to contact editor/publisher rob mclennan, email rob_mclennan (at) hotmail (dot) com; or write, c/o 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON Canada K1H 7M9
Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press 2003-2013 (Chaudiere Books)
Groundswell: the best of above/ground press, 1993-2003 (Broken Jaw Press)
above/ground press
- archives at the University of Calgary
- Penteract Press interviews above/ground press, May 2021
- the ottawa small press book fair : home edition, August 2020
- rob mclennan on old-school chapbook making, October 2018
- In which I answer some questions on above/ground press for Entropy, as part of their small press feature, December 2016
- "How to keep a small chapbook press alive for twenty-three years (a primer, at Open Book, October 2016
- List of micro-publishers in Canada : Brick Books' Celebreation of Canadian Poetry, December 2015
- "Six Questions For..." rob mclennan on above/ground press, October 2013
- Pearl Pirie's report on the 20th anniversary reading / launch / party, August 2013
- 'I am a child of above/ground," by Marcus McCann, August 2013
- Marthe Reed resonds to Alejandro Butros on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, nous-zot press, August 2013
- On small press publishing and above/ground press in particular by Gary Barwin, serif of nottingblog, August 2013
- Celebrating 20 years of poetry with above/ground press by Alejandro Bustos, Apartment 613, August 2013
- I simply began: above/ground press at 20 [an interview with rob mclennan], Apt. 9 Press, August 2013
- Q & A: 20 Years of above/ground press: an interview with rob mclennan by Alison Lang, Broken Pencil blog, January 2013
- ten questions for rob mclennan on above/ground press by derek beaulieu, March 2011
- above/ground press at nineteen,
- the peter f yacht club (a write-up + bibliography);
- above/ground press: at sixteen
- above/ground press: the angry teen years (fifteen)
- above/ground press: ALBERTA SERIES (2007-8), online pdf chapbooks
- above/ground press: what happens at fourteen
- Alberta dispatch: interviews and writing from Edmonton by rob mclennan
- interview with rob mclennan by Didi Menendez, Men of the World Wide Poetry World
- interview with rob mclennan by Rusty Morrison on writing, reviewing, blogging and above/ground press
- Ottawa X-Press article on small/micro press
editor/publisher rob mclennan's other web stuff
other chapbook publishers
- (m)Other Tongue Press, Saltspring Island BC
- AngelHousePress, Ottawa ON
- Apt. 9 Press, Ottawa ON
- Baseline Press, London ON
- Believe Your Own Press, Toronto ON
- BookThug, Toronto ON
- bywords, Ottawa ON
- Ferno House, Toronto ON
- Friday Circle (University of Ottawa), Ottawa ON
- Frog Hollow Press, Victoria BC
- greenboathouse books, Vernon BC
- Jackpine Press, Saskatoon SK
- Laurel Reed Books, Mt. Pleasant ON
- Leaf Press, Lantzville BC
- Lipstick Press, Gabriola Island BC
- LyricalMyrical, Toronto ON
- Mercutio Press, Montreal QC
- NO PRESS, Calgary AB
- Nomados Literary Publishers, Vancouver BC
- PigeonBike, London ON
- Pooka Press, Vancouver BC
- Proper Tales Press, Toronto ON
- red nettle press, Edmonton AB
- Rubicon Press, Edmonton AB
- Running the Goat, Books & Broadsheets, St. John's NFLD
- Simulacrum Press, Burlington ON
- The Alfred Gustav Press, North Vancouver BC
- The Blasted Tree, Calgary AB
- The Emergency Response Unit, Toronto ON
- Wrinkle Press, Windsor ON
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