some author activity: Kaplan, Simpson, Boyle, eckhoff + Rosenthal,

Genevieve Kaplan is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Natalie Simpson is video-interviewed via Gap Riot Press; Frances Boyle has a new poem up in the poetry pause series via The League of Canadian Poets; kevin mcpherson eckhoff has a new comedy album, available here; and Sarah Rosenthal is interviewed by Heidi Van Horn for The Brooklyn Rail.

new from above/ground press: Small Print, by Natalie Simpson

Small Print
Natalie Simpson
$5


Would you shape your future in profit-sharing? In slices and dices?

Could you count out slowly and exhale a meaningful product? We

would not predict, and yet success is bursting from every lip. Every

line you write improves your chances of gems and shining light.

Worship your pennies and the dollars just glitter. Just farther, there,

you can see another life, that one you led in your wildest dreams, a car

in the sun, it’s fun, your car at the beach, no care in the world, that life

comes from firm outputs, healthy royalties, press releases, trust.


published in Ottawa by above/ground press
January 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Natalie Simpson is the author of accrete or crumble (LINEbooks, 2006) and Thrum (Talonbooks 2014). Her poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including The Best Canadian Poetry in English, and many chapbooks, most recently Anonymous (Widow) Anonymous (Wife) (The Blasted Tree 2020). She practices pro bono law in Calgary.

This is Simpson’s third above/ground press title, after The writing that should enter into conversation (2005) and Dirty Work (2007).

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

some author activity: Graham, Stuart, Konchan, Simpson, Siklosi, Turner + Rogal,

Lea Graham has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Kate Siklosi (a collaboration with psw) and Cecilia Stuart and even Virginia Konchan; Natalie Simpson has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Michael Turner is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Stan Rogal has new poems up at where is the river.

some author activity: McNair, mclennan, Tucker, beaulieu + Simpson,

Two poems from a collaboration-in-progress between Christine McNair and rob mclennan are now online at berfrois; Aaron Tucker is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; rob mclennan talks about coffee and other subjects over at Queen Mob's Teahouse; derek beaulieu is interviewed by Pablo Lopez over at Les Figues; and Natalie Simpson posts an essay as part of the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

Evening Will Come: beaulieu, Earl, Hajnoczky, McElroy, Simpson, timewell + mclennan,

A special "Canadian Feature," posted as the May issue of Evening Will Come, a fragment of The Volta, is now online, featuring poetic statements by a slew of above/ground press authors (and some not-yet-authors), including: derek beaulieu, Amanda Earl, Helen Hajnoczky, Peter Jaeger, Gil McElroy, Erín Moure, Nikki Reimer, Natalie Simpson and lary timewell, as well as a brief introduction by guest-editor rob mclennan.

DUSIE #17 : Reed, Kaminksi, Poe, Prevost, Sand, Reid, Shapira, Simpson,

Dusie #17, lovingly guest-edited by Marthe Reed, features a slew of work by above/ground press authors, including Megan Kaminski, Deborah Poe, Roland Prevost, Kaia Sand, Monty Reid, Kate Shapira, Natalie Simpson and Reed herself, as well as a host of others.

above/ground press participates in The Capilano Review's epic kickstarter!

above/ground press has donated a mound of chapbooks for The Capilano Review's epic fundraiser! For a donation for $50 or more, you can pick up a set of fourteen above/ground press chapbooks. Only three sets available!

Each set includes: Gregory Betts, Who Let the Mice in Brion Gysin (2014), rob mclennan, How the alphabet was made (2014), Rae Armantrout, Rituals (2013), Fenn Stewart, An OK Organ Man (2012), Robert Manery, Richter-Rauzer Variations (2012), Mark Cochrane, Cat. (2012), Shannon Maguire, Vowel Wolves & Other Knots (2011), Ken Norris, GREEN WIND (2010), Natalie Simpson, The writing that should enter into conversation (2005), ryan fitzpatrick, Adolesce (2005), George Bowering (as "Ellen Field"), A, You're Adorable (2004), Meredith Quartermain, "Highway 99" (STANZAS #35) (2003), Donato Mancini, @phabet (2003), bpNichol, KON 66 & 67 (for jiri valoch (2002).

calgary wordfest: beaulieu, Robertson + Simpson, October 17, 2014

derek beaulieu hosts the Poetry Cabaret at Calgary Wordfest, Friday October 17, 2014, with performances by Dennis Lee, Nikki Reimer, Lisa Robertson and Natalie Simpson.

Friday, October 17 • 8pm
Theatre Junction Grand – Studio
Tickets: $15
$13 seniors, students and friends of cjsw

Buy Tickets / Call Wordfest to purchase tickets and passes: 403 237 9068

Helen Hajnoczky etc in Calgary: 100 Tender Buttons: a celebration of Gertrude Stein

Sunday, July 27, 2014
7pm
LOFT 112
535 8 Avenue SE, Calgary Alberta T2G 5S9

Montreal poet and above/ground press author Helen Hajnoczky is in Calgary, and she's doing a reading as part of a celebration of Gertrude Stein along with two other above/ground press authors: derek beaulieu and Natalie Simpson. See the facebook invitation here.

2014 is the 100th anniversary of the publication of Gertrude Stein's masterpiece TENDER BUTTONS. Join Calgary's Poet Laureate derek beaulieu on July 27th (the 68th anniversary of Stein's death) as he hosts an evening of poetic responses to Stein's work including readings by Natalie Simpson, Nikki Sheppy, Rachel Shabalin, Anj Fermor and Helen Hajnoczky!