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Dorothea Lasky, Milk
Is it a burden to be so perfectAnd to have such perfect childrenAnd to have such a perfect marriageAnd to look so perfect all the timeAnd to make every decision perfectlyCocktails on Thursday with...
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today is my forty-eighth birthday,
“I told him, ‘Julie, don’t go!’” [link; link]My tag-line for the party we held over the weekend: “party until I break a hip” (which didn’t happen, fortunately). Responding to an email on same, my birth...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Major Jackson
Major Jackson is the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Roll Deep(Norton, 2015). Recipient of a John S. Guggenheim Fellowship, he is Richard A. Dennis Professor of English at the...
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Mikko Harvey, Unstable Neighbourhood Rabbit
SWIVELWhen I want to be sweet and light like a blackberryfloating in a bowl of water, instead I am heavyand awkward. When I want to be strong like a realsword, instead I just sit here like a blackberry...
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my (small press) writing day : new essays + a submission call,
I’ve been curious for some time about The Guardian’s occasional feature “My Writing Day,” and thought it might be interesting to do a blog of the same, “for those of us who might never make it into The...
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Arc Walk Ottawa #1 : Centretown : curator/guide: rob mclennan
Arc Walks Ottawa is a series of guided walks based on poetry themes and capitalizing on the rich poetry history of Canada’s capital. Residents and visitors alike are welcome to join in on the walks to...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Kristi Maxwell
Kristi Maxwell's books include That Our Eyes Be Rigged (Saturnalia Books) and PLAN/K (Horse Less). She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville. 1 - How did your first book change...
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Diana Arterian, playing monster :: seiche
my father and i are preparing a mealHe has to go outside, hasto tend to somethingHe instructs me not to touchhis ingredientsto continue slicing mushroomsI do, wielding a knifetoo large for my handWhen...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Didi Jackson
Didi Jackson's debut collection of poems, Killing Jar, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2020. Her poems have appeared most recently in The New Yorker, New England Review, and Ploughshares, among...
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Anne Parian, monospace, translated by Emma Ramadan
Changes in the air beyond our expectations cutting bit by bit through this discoveryI don’t know anything about itEach addition perfects the perceptible wholePromontories placed to give rise to forms...
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Arc walks, 2018 : centretown
[official Arc Poetry Magazine twitter photo by Chris Johnson] On Tuesday, I hosted the first of a series of “Arc walks” that Arc Poetry Magazine approached me to curate on their behalf, aiming for a...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague is a Miami <-> Philly gay, Latino Leo living in Philadelphia, PA. He is the author of the poetry books ->Jazzercise is a Language (The Operating System, 2018), about the...
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above/ground press gets some love in the globe and mail!
In case you didn't catch, Toronto writer, artist and filmmaker R.M. Vaughan was good enough to pitch and write a short piece for The Globe and Mail on above/ground press' twenty-fifth anniversary!...
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Queen Mob's Teahouse: Heather Sweeney interviews J’Lyn Chapman
As my tenure as interviews editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse continues, the thirty-seventh interview is now online:Heather Sweeney's interview with J’Lyn Chapman. Other interviews from my tenure include:...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with Alina Pleskova
Alina Pleskova is a poet, editor, Russian immigrant turned proud Philadelphian, & consummate Aquarius. Her first chapbook, What Urge Will Save Us, was published in April 2017 by Spooky Girlfriend...
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Chaudiere Books blog : National Poetry Month begins next week!
Over at the Chaudiere Books blog, we begin our fifth annual National Poetry Month array of new poems! With new work appearing almost daily by Chaudiere authors and friends of the press alike, including...
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Ryan Eckes, General Motors
we’re in a greyhound station in baltimore w/ an hour to kill, staring at the tv. cnn is in love w/ the bombing of the boston marathon, and cnn is in love w/ 165,000 new jobs, 165,000 new jobs, 165,000...
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12 or 20 (second series) questions with E. Martin Nolan
E Martin Nolan is a poet, essayist and editor. He edits interviews at The Puritan, where he’s also published numerous essays, interviews and blog posts. His essays and poems have appeared in Arc, CNQ...
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new from above/ground press: Notley, Gray, mclennan, Barwin/Burdick,...
UndoAlice Notley$5See link here for more informationGo Under The SurfaceStephanie Gray$5See link here for more informationsnow dayrob mclennan$5See link here for more informationPLEASURE BRISTLESGary...
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Jill Tomasetti, Prima Vera
APPROACHi wish withthelightningi’d leap like calvino saidover thetomboutrunthe after-darkoffirework’sflashear’sdeafnessaftertheboomBecause I am behind on everything, I am just now going through San...
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