folio
: Barry McKinnon (1944-2023)
, edited by Jeremy Stewart and Donna Kane : see the expansive folio here
above/ground press has produced a couple of chapbooks by Barry McKinnon over the years--Into the Blind World (2012) and G o n e S o u t h (2021)--as well as include work by him in an issue of Touch the Donkey [a small poetry journal] in 2022, with follow-up interview, which is very much worth reading.
The issue itself doesn’t announce officially until Thursday morning (where you can find her introduction to the issue online at https://guestpoetryjournal.blogspot.com/) but you can totally pre-order (that’s what we’re calling it, yep) via the paypal button (because I have a huge box of them sitting here, I mean really)
G U E S T [a journal of guest editors]
: issue #17
guest-edited by Melanie Dennis Unrau
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
June 2021
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
and, appearing simultaneously to the G U E S T issue [7am
CDT/9am EDT] will be:
energy stories : folio
edited by Melanie Dennis Unrau at periodicities:
a journal of poetry and poetics
as a supplemental folio to G U E S T #17
which will land on Thursday morning at https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/
along with an introduction by Unrau
with new writing by Sarah-Jean Krahn, Arleen Paré, Kathy
Fisher, David C. Brydges + Dymphony Dronyk
INFORMATION ON THE THURSDAY AFTERNOON READING:
June 3, 2021 : 2:30pm CDT/4:30 EDT
|see facebook link here for information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/3149594938632418
lovingly hosted by Melanie Dennis Unrau
with readings by participating authors:
Yvonne Blomer, Kiran Malik-Khan, Peter Christensen, K.B.
Thors, Rina Garcia Chua, David Martin, Ross Belot, Lindsay Bird, Kelly Shepherd
and Lisa Mulrooney
Melanie Dennis Unrau respectfully
acknowledges the original caretakers of the land known as Treaty 1/Winnipeg,
where she lives as a settler of mixed European ancestry on the traditional
territory of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, and Dene peoples and the
homeland of the Métis Nation, with water from Shoal Lake in Treaty 3 territory
and with electricity from Treaty 1,3, and 5 territory, where the Northern Flood
Agreement has never been implemented. Melanie is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in
English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a Research
Affiliate at the University of Manitoba Institute for the Humanities. She is
the author of Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems (Muses’ Company,
2013), a co-editor of Seriality and Texts for Young People: The Compulsion
to Repeat (Palgrave, 2014), a former editor and poetry editor at Geez
magazine, and a former co-editor of The Goose: A Journal of Arts,
Environment, and Culture in Canada.
