Things in my Chest volume 2 smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...

newly posted at @periodicities.bsky.social : rob mclennan : Heliotropia, by Manahil Bandukwala / @manahil.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/10/rob-...

Emily Austin, Gay Girl Prayers robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/emil...

Things in my Chest volume 2 smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/10/thin...

don't forget the fall edition of the ottawa small press book fair Nov 22nd! + pre-fair reading the night prior at Anita's Cafe in Vanier, / @arcpoetry.bsky.social @amandaearl.bsky.social @thesedayszine.bsky.social @ctvnewsottawa.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

fwd : HallowZine, Ottawa Zine Fair, October 12, 2025; smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/09/fwd-...

No mail? Get yer zines, chaps, and CanLit trading cards at the glorious Glebe Community Centre in just 2 weeks today!

this Sunday, The Factory Reading Series! Ben Ladouceur launches a new chapbook, Irish-Australian poet Nathanael O'Reilly comes north + Michael Lithgow returns to Ottawa after 5+ years in Alberta! / @bookhugpress.bsky.social @cormorantbooks.bsky.social abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

S*BSTACK ALERT: Trace, (above/ground press, 2013) , offering the text of an out-of-print chapbook, robmclennan.substack.com/p/trace-abov...

this Sunday!

above/ground press: 2026 subscriptions now available! , anticipating the press' thirty-third year of activity, / @neonpajamas.bsky.social @russellcarisse.bsky.social @kevinspenst.bsky.social @frankyfrancescannon.com ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

fwd : HallowZine, Ottawa Zine Fair, October 12, 2025; smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/09/fwd-...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Fall 2025 | Common House Magazine smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/09/call...

The Carleton Poetic Society Outdoor Open Mic Time and Place: 5:30 pm. Vincent Massey Park, White Gazebo Web: linktr.ee/thepoeticssocietycu September 24 - sign up here: tinyurl.com/carletonopenmicsept24

We are thrilled to announce the finalists for the 2025 Lampman Award, recognizing outstanding poetry from brilliant Ottawa-based poets: Emily Austin's “Gay Girl Prayers,” Manahil Bandukwala's “Heliotropia,” and AJ Dolman's “Crazy/Mad.” Stay tuned for details about the winner announcement this fall!

Gwen Aube's pulp necrosis (above/ground press, 2025) is reviewed at Discordia Review abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/gwen...

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS | Fall 2025 | Common House Magazine smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/09/call...

Ottawa book launch : the book of sentences, (with Stephanie Bolster + Zane Koss, / @ucalgarypress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/09/otta...

Creatively Yours has launched. There are 6 items available for purchase now. More will be added and the current offerings will expire in December. Expect more wild promo and info to come! amandaearl.substack.com/p/creatively...

new from above/ground press: What's Left, by Ken Norris abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/09/new-...

September issue of Bywords.ca is now live w/ poems by Aline Bee, Ruth Kennedy, Charlene Osborne & Ellie Waisglass bywords.ca

I'm grateful to The Temz Review for inviting me to be a resident reviewer. The latest issue includes two of my reviews for Speech Dries Here on the Tongue and Carol Krause's A Bouquet of Glass. www.thetemzreview.com/issue-thirty...

Thrilled that James K Moran will be reading on September 28 with me and AJ Dolman, his co-pilot and fellow amazing writer

join as a free member and vote on your favourite CanLit Card from volume 1 www.patreon.com/posts/canlit...

report: the above/ground press 32nd anniversary reading/launch/party! / @linarvitvideopoet.bsky.social @mreid.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/repo...

Wow a fabulous review of We Astronauts. Thanks @pinholepoetry.bsky.social for making it possible & sharing the review by Catherine Walker. miramichireader.ca/2025/08/we-a...

The Factory Reading Series (Ottawa ON), September 28, 2025: Nathanael O'Reilly, Michael Lithgow + Ben Ladouceur, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025 / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

ANNOUNCING: the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025 / @bookhugpress.bsky.social @arcpoetry.bsky.social @smallpressalmanac.bsky.social @versefest-ottawa.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

the ottawa small press book fair, autumn 2025 edition: November 22, 2025 / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; smallpressbookfair.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

new from above/ground press: Downs, Kelly, Souffrant, Hausner, Gray, Vitkauskas, Chang-Richardson, Sandhu, Brenza, Berlatsky, Touch the Donkey #46 + Verse on the Banks / Poèmes sur le rivage, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/08/new-...

newly posted: Ken Norris : THE WEATHER & THE WORDS: THE SELECTED LETTERS OF JOHN NEWLOVE, 1963-2003, Edited by J.A. Weingarten / @wlupress.bsky.social ; periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2025/08/ken-...

hey everyone! ive had a couple of dozen folk telling me they're going to this event on thursday, but only 5 tickets have sold, which is prompting the venue to talk about cancelling; if you are planning to go, could you please pre-purchase your ticket? thanks! robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-...

Buy any of these unique chaps n zines this summer n get a free pack of CanLit trading cards as a bonus

above/ground press author spotlight #6 : Monty Reid , reading as part of the above/ground press 32nd anniversary event on August 7 in Ottawa, / @mreid.bsky.social @invisibooks.bsky.social ; abovegroundpress.substack.com/p/abovegroun...

To all Ottawa-based poets without a full-length book, don't forget about submitting to the 2025 Diana Brebner Prize. Deadline: September 4

Call for Submissions to Arc Poetry's Diana Brebner Prize / @arcpoetry.bsky.social ; smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/07/call...

VERSeOttawa seeks Festival Manager. Deadline to apply: July 26, 2025 www.verseottawa.ca/static/pdf/F...

SAVE THE DATE(S): ottawa small press fair fall 2025 and 2026 dates now available, / @ottawasmallpress.bsky.social ; smallpressalmanac.blogspot.com/2025/07/save...

Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part three : Claudia Souto Cuello (trans. by the author + Stuart Ross, robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/07/ongo...

Spotlight series #111 : Helen Robertson / @helendestroy.bsky.social ; robmclennan.medium.com/spotlight-se...

Over the next few weeks, we will be reposting the poems from our 2025 Poem of the Year Contest shortlist. To start, we're pleased to announce this year's Honourable Mention, Saemah Mushtaq's "eh·luh·jee for the ded," a poem that is "haunting, direct, with a sonic, rhythmic pulse": buff.ly/FeLqJdG

If updates be the food of love, play on. , Christine and I read in Dublin this weekend, yes? you should come to that, / @poetryireland.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/if-updates...

Touch the Donkey supplement #281 : six questions for Larkin Maureen Higgins touchthedonkey.blogspot.com/2025/07/ttd-...

AND DON'T FORGET THE ABOVE/GROUND PRESS POSTAL INCREASE SALE! ENDS TOMORROW! (although we're travelling for another week, so maybe we extend until July 15th? abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-...

today is the thirty-second anniversary of above/ground press, abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/07/toda...

Ongoing notes: the ottawa small press book fair (part one: Bardia Sinaee + George Bowering, / @thesedayszine.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/06/ongo...

new from above/ground press: The Oh Oh, by Beatriz Hausner , launching in Ottawa on August 7th as part of the above/ground press 32nd anniversary event at RedBird! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2025/06/new-...

S*BSTACK ALERT: the green notebook, , reading Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Christine McNair, Bill Knott, Gary Barwin + Jay MillAr, / @garybarwin.bsky.social @christinemcnair.bsky.social ; robmclennan.substack.com/p/the-green-...