some author activity: Kolewe, Naughton, Webb, Kemp-Gee + (ottawa) small press almanac,

R. Kolewe is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Katie Naughton and Lindsey Webb both have new work at interim poetics; forthcoming author Meghan Kemp-Gee is also interviewed at Touch the Donkey; and did you see that above/ground press is now part of the "(ottawa) small press almanac" collective of Ottawa-based small and micro press publishers?

new from above/ground press: This Folded Path, by Robert van Vliet

This Folded Path
Robert van Vliet
$5

1


The
gentle wind
above the houses.

Everything that is
new is
not

new.
Heaven creates
itself without doing

anything. A long
river like
a

claw.
A flat
cloud stained like

a bloody liver.
What else
but

this
can any
of it mean?

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Robert van Vliet’s poetry has appeared in The Sixth Chamber Review, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Wine Cellar Press, Selcouth Station, Eunoia Review, Guesthouse, Otoliths, and elsewhere. He has been, among other things, a typographer, a singer/songwriter, a repair technician for Macintosh computers, a process designer, and a tutor & substitute teacher for middle school & high school. His first book, Vessels, is forthcoming from Unsolicited Press in 2024. He lives in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with his wife, Ana. His website is robertvanvliet.com.

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

new from above/ground press: Mayday, by Stephen Cain

Mayday
Stephen Cain
$5

May 1, 2023
Won’t say sundown
No lightness, no levity
What makes a Canadian?
CBC songs & squibs
Lumps of lyricism
Or that we see it differently
A national imaginary or
An imaginary nationalism

May 2, 2023
Losing leaves, like losing hair
The trees & me
Small schadenfreude
The Great Creep Forward
Aspersions to the contrary
Some Klanada flags
Call the cops on “Commies”
Or mismanage the missive

May 3, 2023
The crash of dishes
Symbols & snares
Percussive aggression
Passive insistence
Red rage is coming down
Pellets against glas
Sing a song of Spring
Sakura suicide
With a cherry on top

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Note:
31 poems of 31 words, where May Day becomes mayday.

Cover design by Eric Schmaltz.

Stephen Cain lives, teaches, writes, & walks with gratitude in Tkaronto. His newest poetry collection, Walking & Stealing, is forthcoming from Book*hug Press.

This is Cain’s fifth above/ground press title, after CIRCA DIEM (1997), ZOOM (2013), Tag & Run: Canto One (2019) and the collaborative Hijinks: A Sequence from Double Helix (with Jay MillAr; 2003).

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: Cadsby, Swensen, Martin, Solomon + Williams,

Heather Cadsby is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Cole Swensen has two new poems in Big Other; Camille Martin's work is featured in the latest issue of Of Poets & Poetry; Misha Solomon has a new poem up at Plenitude magazine; and an excerpt of Evan Williams' new chapbook is now online at Cleveland Review of Books.

new from above/ground press: LIVID REMAINDERS, by Geoffrey Olsen

LIVID REMAINDERS
Geoffrey Olsen
$5

 ease splits long this
        about class, marks white
  tree distillate, fierce gloom
recede in place of
    accumulated people not said
  straight forward ocean recedes along
 shore vast purple black depth
   terror dailiness
   in proactive form
  everything in the space of “my life”
 rooted poet name
   fed cats at dawn
action resides collective turn
  broke piano

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Geoffrey Olsen is the author of four chapbooks in addition to this one, most recently Nerves Between Song (These Signals Press 2022) and The Deer Havens (above/ground press 2020). He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

This is Olsen’s second above/ground press chapbook, after The Deer Havens (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

above/ground press at the TIFA Small Press Market at Harbourfront Centre Toronto this Saturday!

above/ground press (that's me!) will be exhibiting as part of the TIFA Small Press Market this Saturday from 11-5pm: you should come by! I'll have a whole slew of above/ground press new and recent items, and will be joined by a wealth of other incredible small publishers.

https://festivalofauthors.ca/event/small-press-book-fair/

Harbourfront Centre
235 Queens Quay West
Toronto M5J 2G8

please come! huzzah!

Here's the full list of incredible small presses that will be participating!

Invisible Publishing
knife | fork | book
Anstruther Press
Simulacrum Press
above/ground press
Puddles of Sky Press
Coach House Press
Wolsak & Wynn Publishers
Gordon Hill Press
Proper Tales Press
Teama Publishing
Augur Magazine
nOIR:Z
Dumagrad Books
Gap Riot Press
Book*hug Press
Serif of Nottingham
Nietzsche’s Brolly

All presses attending are also part of TIFA’s Interactive Small Press Map of Canada.
https://festivalofauthors.ca/small-press-interactive-map/

Benjamin Niespodziany's virtual reading marathon, September 24, 2023: Logan, mclennan, Walker, Williams, Barwin etc

above/ground press author Benjamin Niespodziany has curated a virtual reading marathon that will go live on Sunday, September 24, 2023 at noon CT, featuring thirty-one readers and nearly three hours of footage! the event also includes plenty of other above/ground press authors, including Nate Logan, rob mclennan, Laura Walker, Evan Williams and Gary Barwin! The premiere link for the event will be here, "live" on YouTube and will continue to be available after the event on his YouTube channel. He has included a list of authors and timestamps, also, if you aren't able to sit through all three hours.

00:00 Intro
01:02 Sparrow
05:12 Rebecca Wadlinger
07:44 Rainie Oet
10:15 Vi Khi Nao
13:07 Nate Logan
15:59 Jose Hernandez Diaz
19:31 Kristin Lueke
20:54 william erickson
25:06 Zachary Schomburg
29:36 Kiik Araki-Kawaguchi
34:37 Angelo Maneage
36:35 Joe Aguilar
42:08 Tyler Barton
50:58 Vik Shirley
54:53 Michael Bazzett
55:21 Daisuke Shen
57:24 rob mclennan
1:07:51 Laura Walker
1:12:56 Tom Snarsky
1:22:00 Evan Williams
1:34:49 Réka Nyitrai
1:36:24 David Wojciechowski
1:45:40 Jay Besemer
1:49:42 Paul Cunningham
1:58:00 David Dodd Lee
2:03:36 Lesle Lewis
2:10:09 Daniel Miller
2:15:51 Rick Bursky
2:24:08 Kai Ihns
2:27:44 Jeff Alessandrelli
2:37:34 Gary Barwin