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Once upon a time in the West (of Ottawa, but still in Ontario, (part one,
Okay, so it feels like forever since we’ve been anywhere [Vancouver in February 2020; the UK in 2018], especially the whole group of us, beyond heading to father-in-law’s in Picton, or mother-in-law’s...
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Ana Božiĉević, NEW LIFE
5 THINGS AT 40You are not crazy, it’s the patriarchyYou’re not a loser, it’s the capitalismYou are not old, time’s not really a thingYou’re not alone, I’m hereYou’re made of stars, that’s fucking...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Caleb Curtiss
Caleb Curtiss is the author of Age of Forgiveness, forthcoming from Sundress in September. His poems appear in Gettysburg Review, Witch Craft Magazine, Image, New England Review, and TriQuarterly.1 -...
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a reminder: the 'six questions' interview series,
I mean, you probably already know, but in case you don't, you should check out the 'six questions' interview series I've been working weekly over at the Chaudiere Books blog (see the latest interview...
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Once upon a time in the West (of Ottawa, but still in Ontario, (part two,
[see part one here]Tuesday, July 25, 2023: Slept terribly, despite the better arrangements. The Oakville hotel was fine enough, the kids sharing a bed, but somehow that was a better sleep. Here they...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Astrid Blodgett
Astrid Blodgettis the author of the short story collections This is How You Start to Disappear(UAlberta Press) and You Haven’t Changed a Bit(UAlberta Press). Her stories have appeared in The Journey...
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Once upon a time in the West (of Ottawa, but still in Ontario, (part three,
[see part one here; part two here]Friday, July 28, 2023: I should have mentioned our visit the prior afternoon to Story Book Land, to meet up with Andrea, a friend of Christine’s we haven’t seen in a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Laila Malik
Laila Malikis a desisporic settler and writer living in Adobigok, traditional land of Indigenous communities including the Anishinaabe, Seneca, Mohawk Haudenosaunee, and Wendat. Her debut poetry...
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new from above/ground press: Massey, mclennan, Melançon, Hilder,...
SONGS FROM THE DEMENTIA SUITCASE, Karen Massey $5 ; edgeless : letters, by rob mclennan $5 ; Bridges under the Water, by Jérôme Melançon $5 ; Where there's smoke, by Monty Reid $5 ; {NANCY} [an essay...
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Natalie Rice, Scorch
ARROW-LEAVED BALSAM ROOTFLOWERsplits the hillside.Your arms are crossed, “maybe I’m notyour flower,” you say. Your mouth closes,mine opens. But John Thompsonleaps between his woman’s arms and...
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Soham Patel, all one in the end—/water
That September when I first saw Lake Michigan, I wanted it to be the sea. Inhales and I would pretend I could taste salt from the air in my nose.In the many months hundreds of articles twenty pounds...
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pre-order! groundwork: The best of the third decade of above/ground press:...
Celebrating thirty years of continuous activity with well over twelve hundred publications to date,groundwork celebrates the third decade of rob mclennan’s Ottawa-based above/ground press, publisher of...
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reminder : rob's clever substack,
You probably already know, but I’ve been working a substack for a while, aiming to post once a week or so. I started last fall, working on a book-length essay around literary community, responsibility...
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Monica Mody, Bright Parallel
In the beginning of time, a poet lived with family. Family loved and cossetted her, kept her away from housework + farmwork + roadwork.She kept letters dancing before her eyes. She with letters...
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Spotlight series #88 : Dessa Bayrock
The eighty-eighth in my monthly "spotlight" series, each featuring a different poet with a short statement and a new poem or two, is now online, featuring Ottawa poet Dessa Bayrock. The first eleven in...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Eugenia Leigh
Eugenia Leighis a Korean American poet and the author of two poetry collections, Bianca(Four Way Books, 2023) and Blood, Sparrows and Sparrows (Four Way Books, 2014), winner of the Late-Night Library's...
View ArticleThirteen ways of looking (in-progress,
, after Robert Kroetsch 1.A blackbird, thus. A lemon. Glacier. A mass of scatter, heart. The scent of that, green. Christine fills the sunroom with tomatoes, garlic, sunflower seeds. She pulls at the...
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dusie : the tuesday poem,
The Tuesday poem is more than ten years old, with new poems by more than five hundred different authors since April 9, 2013. For those unaware, I've been curating this weekly poem series over at the...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Nick Voro
A native of Kyiv, Ukraine, but living in Canada since the age of eleven, Nick Voro discovered literature at an early age, never quite mustering the ability to put an excellent book down. A recent...
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Adams (birth) Family Gathering, 2023
Christine, our young ladies and I recently attended an extended weekend family gathering of "cousins," etcetera, via my birth mother's family (you can see wee Aoife in the background of this picture,...
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