Sarah Rosenthal has three poems up as part of LAdige Review's "California Series"; russell carisse has new work up at The Pi Review; Micah Ballard has new work up at the Spotlight series; Benjamin Niespodziany has new work at Bennington Review; and forthcoming author J-T Kelly is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.
Saturday, February 8, 2025
Saturday, October 26, 2024
some author activity: carisse, Ebbitt, Sikkema, fitzpatrick + McNair,
russell carisse is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Katie Ebbitt is interviewed by Nadia Prupis over at Hobart, and by Emily Roll over at BOMB; Michael Sikkema has a handful of new poems up at Broken Lens Journal; ryan fitzpatrick has some poems online at The Capilano Review; and Christine McNair offers "A List for Lost Words" over at 49th Shelf.
Friday, October 25, 2024
new from above/ground press: poetry and labour / is concrete, by russell carisse
poetry and labour / is concrete
russell carisse
$5
published in Ottawa by above/ground press
October 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
russell carisse is currently living on unceded Wolastoqiyik/Mi’kmaw territory in New Brunswick. Here they have resettled from Tkaronto to an off-grid trailer in the woods, with their family of people and animals, to grow food and practice other forms of underconsumption. Work recently forthcoming or in, Queen’s Quarterly, The Temz Review, Touch the Donkey, also online: website: russellcarisse.carrd.co Mastodon: @russellcarisse@writing.exchange
This is carisse’s third above/ground press title, after English Garden Bondage (2022) and In The Margins. . . . . .of french translations found and remixed by russell carisse (2024).
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
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
some author activity: Solomon, Berlatsky, Rogal, carisse, Baus + Dreiblatt,
Misha Solomon wrote on the late Ian Stephens for The Fiddlehead; Noah Berlatsky is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where Stan Rogal and russell carisse also have poems; and the video from Eric Baus and Ian Dreiblatt's zoom-reading in Jack Krick's Hugely Popular series is now online.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
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.
Tuesday, February 27, 2024
new from above/ground press: In The Margins. . . . . .of french translations found and remixed by russell carisse, by russell carisse
In The Margins. . . . . .of french translations found and remixed by russell carisse
russell carisse
$5
draws me toward thepublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
“ego”
away
without a sign
a crying out
* * *
I expel myself
motion
perhaps
it is thus
an other
which “I”
of sobs, of vomit
the
tears and
perspire
makes me balk at
father who
desires
I expel
who am only
myself
but one that
turns me inside
that “I” am
my own death
* * *
February 2024
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
russell carisse is currently living on unceded Wolastoqiyik and Mig’maw territory in New Brunswick. Here they have resettled from Tkaronto into an off-grid trailer in the woods, with their family of people and animals, to grow food and practice other forms of underconsumption. russell is the author of chapbooks, BRICKWORKS (Frog Hollow Press 2021), and English Garden Bondage (above/ground press 2022). Their work can be found online and in print.
This is carisse’s second above/ground press title, after English Garden Bondage (2022).
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
Saturday, February 3, 2024
some author activity: carisse, Armantrout, Scroggins, Logan + Reid,
russell carisse has a new poem up at dadakuku; Rae Armantrout has a poem up in The New Yorker; Mark Scroggins' work gets some good critical attention by James Berger over at Jacket2; Nate Logan is featured over at Leavings; and Monty Reid is interviewed by Pinhole Poetry, which also includes a new poem.
Monday, June 19, 2023
some author activity: Carisse, Sparling + Pirie,
Russell Carisse has a new poem up in the Tuesday poem series; Ken Sparling displays his handmade books at the Coach House Books website; and Pearl Pirie posted a report on the pre-small press fair reading the other night, as well as receiving her festschrift!
Saturday, April 8, 2023
some author activity: Scroggins, Norris, Carisse, Hawes, Tracy, Mohammadi + Cadsby,
Mark Scroggins has a new poem up at talking about strawberries all of the time; Ken Norris is interviewed there, as is Russell Carisse, and so is James Hawes; Dale Tracy is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series; Khashayar Mohammadi has a poem up on the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, and so does forthcoming author Heather Cadsby!
Saturday, March 4, 2023
some author activity: Carisse, Mohammadi, Logan, Hyland, Moritz + Barwin,
Russell Carisse is featured over at IceFloe Press; Khashayar Mohammadi has new work in the latest issue of the ex-puritan; Nate Logan, MC Hyland and Rachel Moritz have new work up at Concision; and Gary Barwin has donated his chapbook collection (including a whole slew of above/ground press stuff) to McMaster University.
Thursday, May 5, 2022
new from above/ground press: English Garden Bondage, by Russell Carisse
English Garden Bondage
Russell Carisse
$5
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published in Ottawa by above/ground press
May 2022
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
Russell Carisse is currently living on unceded Mi'kmaw territory in New Brunswick. Here they have resettled off-grid with their family of people and animals, to grow food and practice other forms of underconsuption. Their writing can be found or forthcoming in Poetry Pause, The Anti-Langorous Project, The Quarantine Review, Funicular, The Utopia Project, The Pi Review, STILL: The Journal, Periodicities, The Paragon Journal, The Babel Tower Board, Talking About Strawberries, as well as in their self-published book, NOMOGRAPHY, on Google Books and New Brunswick Chapbook Series #18, BRICKWORKS from Frog Hollow Press.
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
Monday, November 16, 2020
Russell Carisse reviews Amanda Deutch’s Bodega Night Pigeon Riot (2020) in antilang
Arrivals<>Departures
Rummaging around Brooklyn’s streetscape with Amanda Deutch’s Bodega Night Pigeon Riot, from above/gound press, one is drawn along and through the accoutrements and fashions of late-capital’s urban millieux. This chap of haiku rattles off with arhythmic comparisons made by the witness in the window of a moving train with words that embark on the dichotomous unrest of jarring the traditional fair of petals, lurching suddenly against the ossified detritus of economic growth - the final excrements of replicative production. There’s a moment hanging on a bridge reaching for itself, but the lul of progress, the lul of onomatopoeic security, of the flashing signs, the monetary venture to work arrives fully stationed for a fresh departure from tradition, again, but with touch of that temporal inflexibility and constraint incorporated in conjunction with the police state - America's cultural soul, as approved religiously over and over again. A soul that is expressed by civil iconographics and neon churches posing in stolen clothes. Pulling into a solipsism that is triggered by the act of naming, a feigned escape materializes from personal reminiscence but tempered with its assurances of willful forgetting and itemized appropriations - the valorized garb of existential valuation. And then it’s off again, with the cycle of storefront-church-mural, uninterupted and augmented by humanity’s popular refrain singing its tune of wealth appreciation. The destination arrives with the traditional fair now blooming and employed with a future naturally littering itself for an immanent return, as one will keep coming back to these poems. Oh, and FUCK the POL(ICE)!