some above/ground press author activity: Renée Sarojini Saklikar, Melissa Eleftherion, Orchid Tierney, Juliet Cook, Isabel Sobral Campos, Benjamin Niespodziany + Stan Rogal, / @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/some...

Thank you for your kind reading of my book @erikkennedy.com Welcome to the slaughterhouse.

📖 by #BlackEarthInstitute Fellow @orchidtierney.bsky.social is: "Part poem and part poet’s novel, this abattoir is a college explores the hostile demands that higher education places upon capitalised bodies, upon students and faculty..." @asterismbooks.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/this...

I am hosting a poetry zine workshop that explores all things vegetal on Friday, Aug. 8, at 12pm EST. If you or someone you know is interested in plant poetics, feel encourage them to sign up (or sign up yourself). It's free! Sign up here: tinyurl.com/mrf544ju

Please join us for this wonderful reading: www.facebook.com/events/11078...

In which fellow poets are doing amazing work.

In which we walk through the vegetal soundscape.

In which Rebecca Hawkes, John Garaets, and I talk about Big Poetry, this abattoir is a college, and MFA programmes. And a minor amendment: "this abattoir is a college" is published by Calamari Press and distributed by Asterism. johngeraets.com/marketplace/

In which my face is a thumbnail.

A set of amazing titles here.

In which rob asks me questions and I answer them. Thanks rob!

Tomorrow night!

A reminder that this event unfolds on Wednesday. It's virtual! It's free!

It's coming up! Please join us for a stellar reading!

an upcoming zoom launch, the ottawa small press book fair, the above/ground press anniversary party + other author (etc) updates, , in which we discuss many things across these next few weeks, abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/an-upcomin...

My new chapbook, "Pedagogies for the Planthroposcene" is available from above/ground press. To order, send cheques (add $2 for postage; in US, add $3; outside North America, add $7) to: rob mclennan, 2423 Alta Vista Drive, Ottawa ON K1H 7M9. E-transfer or PayPal at rob_mclennan (at) hotmail.com.

new from above/ground press: pedagogies for the planthroposcene, by Orchid Tierney / @orchidtierney.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/05/new-...

I am perpetually behind with things, but I want to thank Julia Fiedorczuk and Paweł Piszczatowski for this invitation to talk about my two of my favourite subjects: air and Keri Hulme (and water--so I guess that makes three.) I'm also excited to visit Poland and to test my Polish.

IN OUR LATEST ISSUE Orchid Tierney (@orchidtierney.bsky.social) reviews *The Plastic Turn* by Ranjan Ghosh Read it on Project MUSE (@projectmuse.bsky.social) at muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

"Nuclear Deal" by Nilufar Karimi is honestly an incredible book of poems. I don't think I've read anything for a while that stays with me long after I have put it down.

I will read with Claire Baechetel and Steph Chang, April 3, 4:30 at Birds of a Feather. In Gambier, of course! Please come and hear two fabulous students reading their work. There may be zines!

"The modern university is a factory that transforms knowledge workers into carcasses. We are cattle primed for the slaughter." @orchidtierney.bsky.social asterismbooks.com/product/this...

I hope we're all doing well in the meat grinder. I'm in the slaughterhouse, and this abattoir is a college is finally out. Find me in the knocking box: asterismbooks.com/product/this...

My short novel, The psychic surgeon assists, has been out for a year today, sharing a birthday with me, and with new Calamari titles from @orchidtierney.bsky.social and Sasha Hawkins: calamaripress.com

I'm so sorry to miss this event. FYI, Aditi's new book is amazing!

My #AWP things today (and I leave tonight, so hi and bye, I guess!)

I'm looking forward to hanging out with likeminded souls. See you soon in LA.

I'm really excited by this book. It was 15 years in the making, and finally (soon) out in the world: asterismbooks.com/product/this...

Glad to see this review is out--beautifully written: jacket2.org/reviews/weat...

"Never comply in advance." --Someone off Reddit.

EcoTheo Review will consider work for our Spring 2025 RESILIENCE-themed issue from 2/14 - 3/1/2025. Full details at ecotheo.org/submit. #ecotheo #celebratewonder #art #interviews #fiction #poetry #nonfiction #reviews #resilience

Yesterday was the first day of our Young Writers Winter Online Workshop. We just wanted to send them some extra love as they embark on this new journey. We're excited to hear about your workshop experience, and if you're a participant, drop us a line so we can follow along.

Powerful oral submissions opposing the Treaty Principles Bill this morning - listen live: www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic... (Don’t want to share the photo of Seymour feat. on the RNZ link... so here's a 2017 kōrero w. Moana Jackson on constitutional transformation www.converge.org.nz/pma/mjdec201...)

My essay on madness and the hysterical essay is out in Tusculum Review.

I’m happy to announce my poem, “age of villains,” appears in the newest issue of the award winning speculative fiction magazine, Strange Horizons. Check it out here: strangehorizons.com/poetry/age-o...

"this abattoir is a college" is available for preorder! asterismbooks.com/product/this... The modern university is a factory that transforms knowledge workers into carcasses. We are cattle primed for the slaughter. Burn down the classroom, the poem replies, we can build an unreasonable college.

I am looking for an assignment that can help students developing proposals (for creative work relating to climate change). Does anyone have one I might use?

🌩️ Storms Are Changing Incomes Frequent thunderstorms caused by the #ClimateCrisis are reshaping the US economy - lowering wages & widening income gaps, especially in poorer areas. Federal aid offers relief, but long-term adaptation is crucial. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm 🧪

Do you remember walruses? Tara Black does! Explore their beautiful comic in the latest issue of takahē 🖤 As ever, free online at: www.takahe.org.nz/i-am-the-wal...

Line Drawing, Print on Hahnemühle Textured Paper

Laynie Browne, Everyone and Her Resemblances / @pamenarpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2024/12/layn...

Submit!

My desire to attend the HSI conference (Warsaw) is at odds with my lack of money--but I'll enthusiastically Zoom in! I'm really looking forward to this panel! [Scroll over for alt-text?]

"this abattoir is a college" is forthcoming from Calamari Archive @in8id.bsky.social and engages with the College-Abattoir System, or CAS, that transforms student-workers and faculty-workers into resource units. If you want review information, interview information, or crying information, or

Thank you @coupletpoetry.bsky.social for giving home to these two poems! You can check out their beautiful new issue via this link coupletpoetry.com/issue-7/

I deleted Twitter and, boy, it feels great. I know all social media is nonsense but at least I'm seeing more content that I actually want to see on this site.

“Things got terribly ugly incredibly quickly” — Terrance Hayes

I just finished an off-the-cuff spellcasting gathering. The goal is to cast a spell for inclusive futures, climate freedom, and protection during the legal expression of the democratic process. If anyone wants the spell instructions, you can access them here: tinyurl.com/3fny37zt