Kōan Anne Brink has some new work up in the Spotlight series; Ken Norris' recent reading for mouse eggs has been posted to YouTube; Summer Brenner participates in the '12 or 20 questions' interview series; Amanda Earl is interviewed in the 6th episode of the podcast Babel Parish Radio; and Allyson Paty recommends some reading at Katie Naughton's Etcetera.
Showing posts with label Allyson Paty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Allyson Paty. Show all posts
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Saturday, February 20, 2021
some author activity: Johnson, Paty, Radmore, O'Reilly, Norris + Gold,
Chris Johnson has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Allyson Paty is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Claudia Coutu Radmore has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter, as well as an obituary for Ottawa poet Lesley Strutt; Nathanael O'Reilly is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; and Ken Norris and the late Artie Gold etcetera have work in the newly-revamped mouse eggs.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
some author activity: Farina, Paty, Armantrout, Earl, Rogal + Stuart,

Thursday, January 2, 2020
Jessica Drake-Thomas reviews Allyson Paty’s Five O’Clock on the Shore (2019)
Jessica Drake-Thomas was good enough to provide the first review of Allyson Paty’s Five O’Clock on the Shore (2019); thanks so much! You can see the original review here.
This week, I read Allyson Paty’s chapbook, Five O’Clock on the Shore, a collection of poems which explore temporal and causality. I found this book to be really intriguing. It has the feel of a confessional.
In her long poem, entitled “Millennial,” the speaker says, “Anything I did or had could be given a name and a value.” She then goes on to show how actions and exchanges shaped her life. How exchanges were made, so that she had the things that she did or does.
There are several such exchanges, for example:
“People with tumors lay down on a table for my father. My father cut the tumors out./ The people with tumors paid a hospital, the hospital paid my dad, and he paid for me.”
The series of statements show cause and effect throughout her life. How she came to be who she is and where she is. One would think that these would take the poetry and — out of the speaker’s life, however, these pieces become deeply meaningful and artfully spoken.
“Everything I did or had could be given a name and a value. It was a violent translation./Nothing it could not touch.”
“Millennial” evokes a certain sense of longing. For a simpler life with less of the “violent translation.” It’s a longing for life to mean something more than just these exchanges. There’s something deeply human and aching about the piece. Simply put, it’s stunning.
I highly recommend Five O’Clock on the Shore. Paty’s work is phenomenal. You can find Five O’Clock on the Shore through above/ground press.
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
new from above/ground press: F I V E O ’ C L O C K O N T H E S H O R E, by Allyson Paty
F I V E O ’ C L O C K O N T H E S H O R E
Allyson Paty
$5
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
cover image: Anonymous, Swiss Watch, c.a. 1820, Gold and Silver, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Allyson Paty's poems can be found in Boston Review, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, The Literary Review, Tin House, the PEN Poetry Series, and elsewhere. Five O'Clock on the Shore is her fourth chapbook, following Score Poems (Present Tense Pamphlets/The Block Museum, 2016), In Medias Res (Monster House Press, 2016), and The Further Away ([sic] Detroit, 2012). She was a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry and a participant in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 2017-2018 Workspace Program. With Norah Maki, she is co-founding editor of Singing Saw Press. She is Assistant Director of the Writing Program at NYU Gallatin, where she runs a website for student writing, art, and research, and produces a print journal with the students in NYU's Prison Education Program.
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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
Allyson Paty
$5
A R I T E
When a person dies the hours. That comprise
a total life. Have stripped their clothes and
buried them in mud. The days have.
Shaved their perfect heads. Floated the hair
downriver and out. Out to sea. A body
of water where day. After day the ships are.
Carrying their freight. To market to uses
to garbage. Once beyond the shore where
land. Is worked and fucked and full
for harvest. Like a field in wartime the weeks.
Have already lit themselves. Have smoldered.
And we with our timeless. Ashes to rake.
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
cover image: Anonymous, Swiss Watch, c.a. 1820, Gold and Silver, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Allyson Paty's poems can be found in Boston Review, BOMB, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, The Literary Review, Tin House, the PEN Poetry Series, and elsewhere. Five O'Clock on the Shore is her fourth chapbook, following Score Poems (Present Tense Pamphlets/The Block Museum, 2016), In Medias Res (Monster House Press, 2016), and The Further Away ([sic] Detroit, 2012). She was a 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Poetry and a participant in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 2017-2018 Workspace Program. With Norah Maki, she is co-founding editor of Singing Saw Press. She is Assistant Director of the Writing Program at NYU Gallatin, where she runs a website for student writing, art, and research, and produces a print journal with the students in NYU's Prison Education Program.
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 at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com or the PayPal button at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com
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