some author activity: Mohammadi, Robinson, carisse, Campanello + Williams,

Khashayar "Kess" Mohammadi is interviewed with Klara du Plessis in the latest issue of The Temz Review, where Ben Robinson is also interviewed, and russell carisse also has new work; Kimberly Campanello and Wayne A. Gilbert's 2023 conversation "Moving Nowhere Here" is up on YouTube; and Evan Williams has some new work up at Tyger Quarterly.

some author activity: Niespodziany, Pakdel, Boyle, Campanello + mclennan,

Benjamin Niespodziany has four short poems up at The Poetry Project; Saba Pakdel has work in the new issue of Loft; Frances Boyle has new work in issue twenty-one of The Temz Review; Kimberly Campanello has a poem up at Granta; and rob mclennan has had another piece from his essay-in-progress on collaborating with Denver poet Julie Carr up on his clever substack.

some author activity: Ross, Eleftherion, Aigen, Campanello,

Stuart Ross posted a nice piece over at his blog (including his acceptance speech) on winning this year's Harbourfront Prize; Melissa Eleftherion has new work and a statement up as part of the Spotlight series; forthcoming author Razielle Aigen has some new work up at Train : a poetry journal; and Kimberly Campanello and Léonce Lupette have a collaboration in the Tuesday poem series over at the dusie blog.

some author activity: Aigen, Siklosi, Campanello, mclennan, Archer + Banu,

forthcoming author Razielle Aigen is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Kate Siklosi is interviewed in the new issue of talking about strawberries all of the time, as is Kimberly Campanello, and where rob mclennan also has a new poem, and Sacha Archer also has some new work; and Simina Banu has some new work up at pioneertown.

some author activity: Campanello, Rosenthal, Spinosa, Clayton + Earl,

Kimberly Campanello is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Sarah Rosenthal has some new work up at Word for/Word; Dani Spinosa is interviewed over at The Maynard; Conyer Clayton is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Amanda Earl has a piece in the "(Not) My Writing Desk" series at Queen Mob's Teahouse.

some author activity: Burdick, hanna, Campanello, Atkins + Radmore,

Alice Burdick has a new poem up as part of National Poetry Month on the Chaudiere Blog, as does natalie hanna; Kimberly Campanello has an essay in the my (small press) writing day series; Tim Atkins has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; and Claudia Coutu Radmore has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets.

some author activity: Saklikar, Barwin, Siklosi, Campanello, Unsworth + a report on Yee & du Plessis @ VERSeFest

the Surrey Now-Leader writes on the end of Renée Sarojini Saklikar's three-year term as Surrey, British Columbia's first City Poet Laureate; Gary Barwin is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where Kate Siklosi, Kimberly Campanello and forthcoming author Lydia Unsworth also have new work; and Manahil Bandukwala was good enough to blog about VERSeFest, including The Factory Reading Series event, featuring lectures by Sennah Yee and Klara du Plessis!

new from above/ground press: running commentary along the bottom of the tapestry, by Kimberly Campanello

running commentary along the bottom of the tapestry
Kimberly Campanello
$5

they didn’t expect


hedges steeples the time it takes
to cut away the chutes purpling
lips down the promenade past
nations stepping forward fire
blocking fire important speech
looped in a darkened room
hardy sightseers in rainproof
jackets everlasting bunkers
farmers or farmers wives or
farmers children blown
up mundane tasks running
commentary along the bottom
of the tapestry build up
of bodies where do we go
when we die the lovers
eating their crêpes her
outrageously classy flowers
their rolling cigarettes like sex

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
in part for the author’s participation in the TEXT/SOUND/PERFORMANCE: Making in Canadian Space conference at University College Dublin, Ireland, April 25-27, 2019.
https://textsoundperformance.wordpress.com/
April 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

cover image: The Fall and Redemption of Man:  The Embrace of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate, 1515. Albrecht Altdorfer (German, c. 1480-1538). Woodcut; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1932.330.5

Kimberly Campanello’s poetry books include Consent, Strange Country and Imagines (both on the sheela-na-gig stone carvings), and Hymn to Kālī (her version of the Karpūrādi-stotra). Her poems have appeared most recently in Banshee, Blackbox Manifold, para·text, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Wales, and in Laudanum Publishing’s Chapbook Anthology Volume Two. MOTHERBABYHOME, 796 poems on the St Mary’s Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Ireland, is out with zimZalla Avant Objects in April 2019. In 2018, Kimberly joined the University of Leeds and the University of Leeds Poetry Centre as Programme Leader for Creative Writing. She lives in York, UK. www.kimberlycampanello.com

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