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In case you hadn't caught, I've been posting a series of missives from my time in Banff back in May over at my substack [ I know I posted a little tiny at-the-time report on my Banff adventuring, but this is far more substantive ], writing on days spent writing and reading, but also hanging out with such as J.R. Carpenter, ryan fitzpatrick, Fred Wah, Daphne Marlatt, Hiromi Goto, Jordan Abel, Adele…
Ryan Skrabalak lives in “Kingston, NY,” where he is an instructor, printer, and radio DJ. He runs and edits Spiral Editions , a small poetry press and occasional tape label. Goes on now except) , published by Beautiful Days Press this year, is his latest book. 1 - How did your first book or chapbook change your life? How does your most recent work compare to your previous? How does it feel…
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[Aoife's small press fair debut, selling copies of her books ; see part one here ; see part two here ] Be aware the next ottawa small press book fair is November 14 at Tom Brown Arena, yes? And the above/ground press thirty-third anniversary event, by the way, will be on August 22 nd at Anina’s Café in Vanier , which is pretty exciting. Have you caught this year’s above/ground press anniversary…
Bridget Huh is a queer Korean-Canadian poet from Toronto. She holds an MFA in poetry from Cornell University, and her poems have appeared in The Walrus , Gulf Coast , The Margins and elsewhere. She is the winner of the 2023 Vallum Poetry Award and has been recognized for awards in North American Review , Fugue Journal , and Palette Poetry . Her debut collection of poetry, Fugue Body , was…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE Sweetie notices my sudden shift in attention and tries to draw me back to another world. I must focus so hard now on my paid tasks. None of this comes easily anymore. Mostly, I’m failing at all this, and it will be discussed in-depth at my weekly one-on-one. I don’t remember much about being a small child. I don’t have an authentic first memory.…
The one hundred and twenty-fourth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Brooklyn poet and editor Gregory Crosby . The first eleven in the series were attached to the Drunken Boat blog, and the series has so far featured poets including Seattle, Washington poet Sarah Mangold, Colborne, Ontario poet…
Moustapha Mohamed Chein was born in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, and grew up in Nouakchott, Mauritania, carrying within him the dual memory of two contrasting lands. His trajectory is a long pilgrimage across continents—a poetic march where he gathers the shards and fragments of distant cultures to weave them at the threshold of his identity. A citizen of the world, he remains at his core an eternal…
Normal 0 false false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE Dowry death is often the murder of a wife by suicide— hanging, drowned, self-poisoned and sleeping in railroad tracks, her eyes slice blade of night train blaring moon glazing everything suddenly delayed. (“In Afterimage”) The third full-length poetry title by Seattle, Washington-based teacher, writer, dancer, filmmaker, visual and performance…
celebrating THIRTY-THREE YEARS of continuous activity (and nearly fifteen hundred publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents: readings and chapbook launches by: Stephanie Bolster (Montreal), Mark Goldstein (Toronto), Cara Goodwin (Ottawa), Sonja Greckol (Toronto), Harold Hoefle (Ottawa), James Spyker (Toronto) + Grant Wilkins (Ottawa) lovingly hosted by above/ground press…
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