Showing posts with label Steve McCaffery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steve McCaffery. Show all posts

Thursday, October 18, 2018

Concrete Poetry exhibition at the Secret Handshake Gallery, Toronto:

Concrete is Porous
Act 1: Visual

An exhibition of concrete poetry.

November 3, 2018 to February 23, 2019
Opening reception November 3, 2:30pm to 6:30pm
The Secret Handshake Gallery
170a Baldwin Street
Toronto, Ontario


Featuring works by a variety of above/ground authors and non-authors, including bill bissett, dani spinosa, kate siklosi, eric schmaltz, derek beaulieu, michèle prevost, adeena karasick, david tin mouth, w mark sutherland, steve mccaffery, peggy lefler, mark laliberte, bpnichol, karl bekker, jim andrews, gary barwin, gustave morin, chad juriansz, paul dutton, michael e casteels, barbara caruso, amanda earl, jwcurry, judith copithorne, grant wilkins, hart broudy and daniel f bradley!

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

new from above/ground press: The Peter F Yacht Club #26; VERSeFest special!

The Peter F Yacht Club #26
VERSeFest 2018 special
edited by rob mclennan
$6


With new writing by a host of Peter F Yacht Club regulars, irregulars and VERSeFest 2018 participants, including Manahil Bandukwala, Gary Barwin, Frances Boyle, Stephen Brockwell, Jason Christie, Sergio Coddou (trans. Lea Graham), Anita Dolman, Klara du Plessis, Amanda Earl, natalie hanna, Gonzalo Hermo (trans. Ivan Barreiro and Erín Moure), Major Jackson, Sneha Madhavan-Reese, Alex Manley, Steve McCaffery, Gil McElroy, rob mclennan, Peter Norman, Carolyn Marie Souaid, D.S. Stymeist and Janice Tokar

published in Ottawa by above/ground press

celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
March 2018
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy
[a small stack of copies will be distributed free as part of the eighth annual VERSeFest, March 20-25, 2018]


To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com

Monday, March 19, 2018

new from above/ground press: CERTAIN WORDS, by Steve McCaffery

CERTAIN WORDS
a septipartite structure investing the seven ideas of Hermogenes
Steve McCaffery
$5


The boredom of snow
which always falls
about your steps
each time you write
the word “flake”

and language greets its
philosophical  counterpart
to make up the terms
that science steals away
from each example.

Can you think
as far as simile
allows you and think
while metaphor
is pushing facts
into substitutions ?

Is this another way
to write about writing ?
to write when outside
an idea or as a subject
with a different direction
one to whom relating
phrases to neighborhoods
by using mirrors for doors
takes you back to where
you started ?

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
March 2018
celebrating twenty-five years of above/ground press
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Steve McCaffery
is the author of over 40 books and chapbooks of poetry and criticism and his work has been translated into a dozen or so languages. A founding member of the sound poetry ensemble Four Horsemen, TRG (Toronto Research Group), Grand Satrap of the College of Canadian ”Pataphysics, and long-time resident of Toronto, he is now David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the University at Buffalo.

[Steve McCaffery launches CERTAIN WORDS in Ottawa as part of his performance at the 8th annual VERSeFest, March 24, 2018]


To order, send cheques (add $1 for postage; outside Canada, add $2) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9 or paypal at www.robmclennan.blogspot.com