Frances Boyle has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Virginia Konchan has a poem up at Poets.org; Pete Smith has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Monty Reid, Rae Kearney, and even Frances Boyle, as well; and Mark Scroggins has a new poem up at Merion West.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Friday, April 26, 2024
new from above/ground press: Process, by Julia Polyck-O’Neill
Process
Julia Polyck-O’Neill
$5
Lisa, Lisapublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
velvet
ribbons
& tender buttonhole
de-influence
me sip
air
powder’s gentlest
breaths its rare
sapidity
surface the
idle she-
capital
the pungency
of new
bloom
the
rose
bud
dew
& warm
air
April 2024
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Julia Polyck-O’Neill (they/she) is an artist, curator, critic, poet, and writer. They are currently the Michael Ridley Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Guelph and a former SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at York University’s Sensorium Centre for Digital Arts and Technology. Starting in July 2024, they will be an Assistant Professor of Communication and Media Studies at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Her research explores feminist, digital approaches to interdisciplinary artists’ archives and intersections between archives and creative praxis. Her publications appear in Amodern, Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft (The Journal for Aesthetics and General Art History), English Studies in Canada, BC Studies, Canadian Literature, and other places.
This is Polyck-O’Neill’s fourth above/ground press title, after femme (2016),
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
some author activity: Heroux, Houbolt, Banks, Flemmer, Armantrout, Campos + Nilson,
Jason Heroux has some poems up at anti-heroin chic; Kyla Houbolt has a new poem up for National Poetry Month at the Chaudiere Books blog, as does forthcoming author Chris Banks and Kyle Flemmer; Rae Armantrout has a poem up in The New Yorker; Isabel Sobral Campos has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series, and do you know what Geoffrey Nilson has been up to?
Friday, April 19, 2024
new from above/ground press: DAWN’S FOOL, by Kyla Houbolt
DAWN’S FOOL
Kyla Houbolt
$5
Dawn’s Fool
In the dawn window
above the night candle
I lift a curtain
to see silhouettes'
slow shift to color
and transparent utility.
Soon day reveals
its sacred flaws
but now sleep's
fugitive magic gentles
what remains shadowed
and there is the dove
who science knows
as a most foolish bird,
gilded now
with a moment's blush
of her ancient roles:
peace bringer, signal
of God's mercy.
I watch her trying
once again to build
a nest where a nest
won't hold
the way she does each year
exactly as I do here.
She will lay
her eggs and some
will hatch to become
more foolish birds
bringing the message of hope
deferred and peace
yet to come.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2024
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cover photo: David Fedor-Cunningham
Kyla Houbolt writes poems and occasional reviews, and takes care of two goats. https://kylahoubolt.us/
Dawn’s Fool was originally published by Ice Floe Press, in 2020.
This is Houbolt’s second above/ground press title, after But Then I Thought (2023).
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Tuesday, April 16, 2024
some author activity: Solomon, Berlatsky, Rogal, carisse, Baus + Dreiblatt,
Misha Solomon wrote on the late Ian Stephens for The Fiddlehead; Noah Berlatsky is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where Stan Rogal and russell carisse also have poems; and the video from Eric Baus and Ian Dreiblatt's zoom-reading in Jack Krick's Hugely Popular series is now online.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
some author activity: Kemp-Gee, Mody, Beaulieu, O'Reilly, Scroggins, van Vliet + Berlatsky,
Meghan Kemp-Gee has a new poem in Southeast Review; Monica Mody has new work in the Spotlight series; Derek Beaulieu has new work at petrichor; Nathanael O'Reilly is interviewed over at The Wild Umbrella; Mark Scroggins is interviewed at talking about strawberries all of the time, where Robert van Vliet also has poems; and Noah Berlatsky has a new poem at dadakuku.
Friday, April 12, 2024
new from above/ground press: Gnomics, by Dale Tracy
Gnomics
Dale Tracy
$5
Ars Poetica
You must eat your midnight and roses
or there’ll be no pounder of spices.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2024
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Dale Tracy is the author of Derelict Bicycles (Anvil Press, 2022), her first full-length poetry collection. She also wrote the chapbooks Lines That Open (Surrey Art Gallery, 2023), The Mystery of Ornament (above/ground press, 2020), and Celebration Machine (Proper Tales Press, 2018) and the academic monograph With the Witnesses: Poetry, Compassion, and Claimed Experience (McGill-Queen’s, 2017). She is a faculty member in the English Department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
This is Tracy’s second above/ground press title, after The Mystery of Ornament (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
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