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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Alexander Dickow
Alexander Dickow is associate professor of French at Virginia Tech. He is a bilingual poet and translator who works in French and English, and a scholar of modern and contemporary French and...
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the above/ground press summer sale! and the press' 26th birthday!
IT WAS TWENTY-SIX YEARS AGO THIS MONTH (July 9, 1993) that I launched the first two official above/ground press titles (after a year or two of a variety of titles and semi-random press names, if at...
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Etel Adnan, TIME; translated by Sarah Riggs
the sun came out at nightto go for a stroll and the divine crossedthe room. the windowsopenedwriting comes from a dialoguewith time; it’s madeof a mirror in which thoughtis stripped and no longer...
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Bill Carty, Huge Cloudy
Haze settles in rooftops,red tile abovethe midwifery center.Outside, topiary likelime-green popsiclesbefore summeruncouples sweetfrom stick. Some localparade passesthe hillside’s jaggedtombstones. No,...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with t’ai freedom ford
t’ai freedom ford is a New York City high school English teacher and Cave Canem Fellow. Her poetry, fiction, and essays have appeared in The African American Review, Apogee, Bomb Magazine, Calyx,...
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the above/ground press 26th anniversary reading/launch/party!
celebrating twenty-six years of continuous activity (and nearly a thousand publications), Ottawa publisher above/ground press presents: seven readings and chapbook launches by:Conyer Clayton...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Matthew Gwathmey
Matthew Gwathmey was born in Richmond, Virginia and studied creative writing at the University of Virginia. He became a Canadian citizen in 2013 and lives with his wife and children in Fredericton, New...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse: Michelle D'costa interviews Mehdi Kashani
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the latest interview is now online, as Michelle D'costa interviews Mehdi Kashani. Other interviews from my tenure include: an...
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Ongoing notes: early August 2019
[a recently-constructed fort that took up both dining room and a corner of our living room]Don’t forget the above/ground press anniversary event next week! And you know about the above/ground press...
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I Could Have Pretended To Be Better Than You: New & Selected Poems by Jay MillAr
Lyn Hejinian says writing is an aid to memory, and I can’t help but see a world around each poem that no one reader could possibly know. For instance, the basement apartment Hazel and I...
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Robert Hogg: Ranch Days (for Ed Dorn) and Ranch Days – The McIntosh
I spoke of the cock sorrel stemThe cock sorrel greweast of the woodshedgreen and like reeds in the springBy autumn the stalks grewbrown and brittleand you could break themeasily at the six-inch...
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Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part five,
[post ghost press]See the first of my notes from our most recent fair here and the second of my notes from our most recent fair here and the third of my notes from our most recent fair here and the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Andrew Farkas
Andrew Farkas [photo credit: Jacob Knabb] is the author of a novel: The Big Red Herring (forthcoming from KERNPUNKT Press in October 2019), and two short fiction collections: Sunsphere (BlazeVOX...
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Spotlight series #40 : Marty Cain
The fortieth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Ithica, NY poet, editor and publisher Marty...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Heather Nolan
Heather Nolan is a writer of poems, prose and songs from St. John's, Newfoundland. She is the author of This is Agatha Falling (Pedlar Press, 2019). Her work tends to explore themes of place and...
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Metta Sáma, Swing at your own risk
America,this land is my land this land is her landfrom the Mexican border to the New Englandshoreland this land is Not your land this body isNot your body this tongue is Not your tongue thislanguage...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Adrienne Drobnies
Adrienne Drobnies’ first book of poetry, Salt and Ashes, was released in April 2019 from Signature Editions. A graduate of the SFU Writer’s Studio, her poetry has appeared in Canadian literary...
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Ongoing notes: dusie kollektiv 9: Dana Teen Lomax + Juliet Cook
Further to the latest iteration of the dusie kollektiv [see my prior notes on chapbooks by Bronwen Tate and Elisabeth Workman from the same kollektiv here; on C.S.Carrier and Adra Raine here; on...
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Lea Graham, From the Hotel Vernon
Sentences for the BakerIn jail, they say, he learned tactics of a tiny man, slept in his own shit, foiled the sodomizers & years before demoted from baker to mopper among rumors of incest,...
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Jehanne Dubrow, American Samizdat
For a few days: frostremakes the lawn as frozen spines.I’m stepping on small bones.In these outlying partsstreets are named Whispering or Leaf.I’m leashed to a small companionwho leads me from one...
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