Nicole Markotić chapbook launch, September 27, 2015 (Windsor ON

Nicole Markotić launches her chapbook Ins & Outs (2015) in Windsor, Ontario as part of The Windsor Thrill: Triple Chapbook Launch | Sunday 27 Sept | 1:00 PM | Common Ground, alongside Simina Banu (launching where art) and Melanie Janisse (launching Scrim Poems)‏. If you can't make it, you can always order a copy of Markotić's title here.

new from above/ground press: dealingwithit.gif, by ryan fitzpatrick

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ryan fitzpatrick
$4

Here’s To Shutting Up


I considered just standing here silently, but
isn’t that part of the problem too? Since I could
own your responses? Pat yourselves on the back.

Problem: my mic is on, so what do I do? Maybe
I’ll share my work with you. But it’s scary, you
wonder, how many people can I really open up to?

What modes of dissemination are appropriate?
If I photocopy The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
to hand out, is that like tweeting Gone with the Wind?

Free speech is all I have except everything. And
won’t gay weddings actively persecute me? Isn’t
crying censorship a live performance of 4’33?

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
September 2015
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

ryan fitzpatrick is a poet and critic living in Vancouver. He is the author of two books of poetry: Fortified Castles (Talonbooks, 2014) and Fake Math (Snare, 2007). With Jonathan Ball, he co-edited Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry (Insomniac, 2014). With Deanna Fong and Janey Dodd, he works on the second iteration of the Fred Wah Digital Archive (fredwah.ca). He is a PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University, where he works on contemporary Canadian poetics after the spatial turn.

Produced, in part, as a handout for PHILALALIA, the three-day small press/art fair, September 17-19, 2015 in Philadelphia PA. Thanks much to Kevin Varrone for his help and support.

This is his third chapbook with above/ground press, after STANZAS #25 (“further revisions”; July 2001) and Adolesce (2005).

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

some author activity: Irwin, Best, timewell, Trivedi + Abel,

Marilyn Irwin has a poem featured on the Matrix Magazine website; Ashley-Elizabeth Best is interviewed over at Kingstonist; lary bremner/timewell has a new photo album up at the Kootenay School of Writing website; Amish Trivedi has a blog; and Jordan Abel is seeking submissions for a special issue of filling Station magazine, "Experimentation in First Peoples' Art and Literature."

And we'll see you at The Fisher Fine and Small Press Fair today at the University of Toronto, yes?

above/ground press in Toronto : this weekend!

You might already know we're at a book fair this weekend, and they were good enough to post a photo to Instagram of two of our titles as part of their publicity! Titles by Hugh Thomas and Amy Dennis (and of course, both are still available). Might we see you Saturday? There might even be a new title or two (that we haven't told you about yet...

Helen Hajnoczky wins the fourth annual John Lent Poetry-Prose Award

Montreal poet Helen Hajnoczky has won the fourth annual John Lent Poetry-Prose Award! Which means her Bloom and Martyr will be appearing next year through Kalamalka Press. Congratulations, Helen!

some author activity: Kroetsch, Earl, Schmaltz + Christie,

Robert Kroetsch gets a short write-up by Wendy McGrath as part of Brick Books' Celebration of Canadian Poetry; Amanda Earl provides a short write-up for her most recent chapbook, A Book of Saints; THE ASSEMBLY LINE OF BABEL by Eric Schmaltz opens on September 25 a the Niagara Arts Centre, St. Catharines ON, Schmaltz also has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; and Jason Christie is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

Phil Hall w/ Miriam Toews at HIJ #15 (Toronto): September 20, 2015

See the Facebook event here for more details.