some author activity: Reimer, Mody, Armantrout, Niespodziany + periodicities,

Nikki Reimer is interviewed by Ariel Gordon in Prairie Books Now; Monica Mody is welcomed to town in an article celebrating Diwali by Melinda Palacio, Santa Barbara Poet Laureate, in the Santa Barbara Independent; Rae Armantrout is featured over at Only Poems with poems and even an interview; Benjamin Niespodziany has new work at gone lawn; and you saw that periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics is now at Blsky, yes?

new from above/ground press: Dinosaurs of Glory, by Nikki Reimer

Dinosaurs of Glory
Nikki Reimer
$5

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
November 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

This chapbook is a companion piece to Reimer's 2023 poetry book No Town Called We (Talon Books), which launches in Calgary at Shelf Life Books on Wednesday, November 8, 2023 as part of the Talonbooks Fall 2023 Poetry Launch.

Nikki Reimer is the author of four books of poetry, most recently No Town Called We (Talon Books). They make art, write non-fiction, and are currently studying towards an MA in Communication. Reimer is a carbon-based chronically ill neurodivergent prairie settler of Ukrainian and Russian Mennonite descent who resides on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. They are very tired.

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

new from above/ground press: Report from the Reimer Society. Vol. 1 No. 1

Report from the Reimer Society
Vol 1. No. 1
edited by rob mclennan
$7

an assemblage of writing in response
to the work of Nikki Reimer

including
poems, critical writings
and
philosophical transactions

with contributions by:
Jonathan Ball
andrea bennett
Jason Christie
Ryan J. Cox
Jen Currin
Dina Del Bucchia
ryan fitzpatrick
Kyle Flemmer
Elee Kraljii Gardiner
Emma Healey
Nicole Markotić
Carmen Faye Mathes
rob mclennan
Adam Seelig
Kevin Spenst
Jeremy Stewart
Jonathan Valelly
Daniel Zomparelli

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
April 2023
as part of above/ground press’ thirtieth anniversary
full list of published reports here
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Report on the Society logo by C. McNair, editor’s devil (retired)

Nikki Reimer (she/her/they/them) is a self-proclaimed “carbon-based life form of Ukrainian and Russian Mennonite descent who lives on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 region in Southern Alberta. She may or may not be undead. She writes poetry, essays and criticism, yells on the internet, and makes digital art.” They are the author of three books of poetry and multiple essays on grief. GRIEFWAVE, a multimedia, web-based, extended elegy, was published in February 2022. Her next collection, out this fall, is No Town Called We (Talon Books, 2023).

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 robmclennan.blogspot.com

some author activity: fitzpatrick, Johnson, Pirie, Boyle, Turnbull + Hogg,

TIA House presents a podcast conversation between ryan fitzpatrick and Nikki Reimer; Chris Johnson has a new piece up at Shrapnel magazine; Pearl Pirie conducts a mini-interview with Frances Boyle; Elee Kraljii Gardiner and Chris Turnbull are collaboratively interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Matthew Friedman writes a small piece remembering Robert Hogg.

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.

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