some author activity: Praamsma, Campanello, Turnbull, Vitkauskas, Smith + Rosenthal,

Wanda Praamsma has new work up at Pamenar Press online, as does Kimberly Campanello and Chris Turnbull; Lina Ramona Vitkauskas has had some new poems up at The Fortnightly Review; Dale Smith is featured in the Canadian Poets Series over at Peripety and/or Tronies; and Sarah Rosenthal is interviewed via Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: Praamsma, Dyckman, Novak, Barwin + Beaulieu,

Wanda Praamsma is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Susanne Dyckman has new work up at Posit; JoAnna Novak is interviewed by Tara Anne Dalbow for BOMB; Gary Barwin is interviewed by Open Book; and Derek Beaulieu writes about his time at filling Station for The Typescript.

new from above/ground press: aversions // nothing special, by Wanda Praamsma

aversions   //   nothing special
Wanda Praamsma
$5

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bleak
outward
mission-less

me   unknowing

a lack of speech
in-existence
out-existence

you          simply weren’t

aimless    it’s all one after the other
I’ll have this & that
& then we’ll lay there naked
all for pleasure
not for knowing          you

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Wanda Praamsma is a poet and writer based in Kingston, Ontario. Her first book of poetry, a thin line between, was published by Book*hug in 2014, and poems have appeared in periodicities, ottawater, eleven eleven, Lemon Hound, and The Feathertale Review.

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

Anstee, Hogg, Folsom, Morton, Praamsma, Best etc at Kingston, Ontario's Artfest, July 1-3, 2016

above/ground press authors Cameron Anstee, Robert Hogg, Eric Folsom, Colin Morton, Wanda Praamsma and Ashley-Elizabeth Best, among a mound of others, perform as part of "Poets at Artfest II" at Kingston, Ontario's Artfest, from July 1 to 3, 2016. For more information, check out the Facebook event page, here.

some author activity: dueck, Pirie, Carr, Budde + McCann,

nathan dueck has some new work up at Canadian Poetries; Pearl Pirie is interviewed by Wanda Praamsma over at BookThug; Emily Carr has some new work up at Posit; Rob Budde has some new work up at Lemonhound; and Marcus McCann's homage to David McGimpsey is now up at Open Book: Toronto.

above/ground press at Word on the Street: Toronto (today!)

If you wander by The League of Canadian Poets booth at Word on the Street in Toronto today, they'll be handing out (while supplies last) a stack of above/ground press "poem" broadsides! I've been digging through the archives lately, and have discovered multiple broadsheets still in print by Sarah Pinder, Natalee Caple, Nelson Ball, Gil McElroy, Ken Norris, Steven Heighton, Ashley-Elizabeth Best, Wanda Praamsma, George Bowering, Joe Blades and Christine McNair, among numerous others. Why not stop by?

"poem" broadside #314 / Queen’s University writer-in-residence (2012) poem-pick # 3: "untitled" by Wanda Praamsma

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m says: do you have that problem, all your socks disappearing into the washing machine?

they slide into this hole

there’s this whole mountain of socks in there

he – oh mysterious he – tells me:        intuition

use it

                        you don’t have to know what you’re doing

just do it

                        make something

                        don’t plan it all out

take something small and go with it

                        see where it takes you

                                                            wise words

at a reading at a library on a downtown ottawa street elizabeth hay says:

you don’t always have to know what you are doing

and so: I promptly go outside and call nancy cooper alice cooper

she laughs

like my mother and her coils

she has a shape in mind and that’s it, start rolling

the clay

untitled
by Wanda Praamsma
above/ground press broadside #314
& Queen’s University writer-in-residence (2012) poem-pick # 3
curated by Phil Hall)

Wanda Praamsma is a writer and yoga instructor living on Wolfe Island, Ont. She has new work forthcoming in ottawater #9. She blogs at www.quietlychurningstomach.com