Christopher Trela writes about Steve Roden's show at UCI OCMA that's on view through end of May 2026.
'Wandering the Steve Roden Exhibit at UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art'
www.newportbeachindy.com/wandering-th...
@atlascorpus
(Retired) sound artist. Long poem Atlas in progress since 2003: EVAD forthcoming 2026, above/ground press. Micro-chap excerpts in 2024 from @ghostcitypress.bsky.social and @stonecorpse.com. https://glennbach.com/
Christopher Trela writes about Steve Roden's show at UCI OCMA that's on view through end of May 2026.
'Wandering the Steve Roden Exhibit at UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art'
www.newportbeachindy.com/wandering-th...
damp breeze through the window birdsβ brief singing cloudy weather
Larry Eigner
Cover of Being-Time: A Practitioner's Guide to Dogen's Shobogenzo Uji, by Shinshu Roberts. Cover image is a painting of a snow-covered mountain against a cloudy sky.
All caught up for book club tonight. #crookedriverzen
Colour photograph of David Berman, seated by a sign that reads 'Fans/Bobby's/Idle Hour', next to which stands a stylised cheap life size human figure with a guitar.
'Berman's lyrics are often melancholic, deceptively simple, funny and modest, with a sense of acute intelligence and curiosity that has somehow fallen in on itself under the weight of it all, left standing bemused and amused in the wreckage'
The Strange World of #DavidBerman
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new from above/ground press: EVAD, by Glenn Bach
abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
EVAD is now available from above/ground press. Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the beautiful chapbook! abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-...
2/2
build now a squat stone tablet
for ants to sun on
and hide it in the dead grass:
βHere lie My Children.β
-Gary Snyder
1/2
walking lonely on a fall day
in a long meadow, slanting open to the woods
where the frost chilled
the dead grass, a year ago
peer sharply through the brown grass:
the slim thin white thing rotted
long ago
-Gary Snyder
Overhead view of a cardboard box filled with copies of EVAD, the first full chapbook from the Atlas long poem. The cover photograph is a reproduction of a photo collage of the Long Beach skyline in the East Village Arts District, 2006.
Copies arrived safe and sound (and dry, despite the relentless Cleveland snow). Thanks to @robmclennan.bsky.social for the first full chapbook from the Atlas long poem. An order link from above/ground press will be available soon.
front cover, EVAD, by Glenn Bach. Collage of photographs of Long Beach skyline: buildings, signage, and palm trees against blue skies.
back cover, EVAD, by Glenn Bach. Collage of photographs of Long Beach skyline: buildings, signage, and palm trees against blue skies, with stamp of above/ground press address.
Cover reveal for EVAD, forthcoming January 2026 from @robmclennan.bsky.social at above/ground press.
Just purchased!
Eliot Weinberger
LINE 2025 REFLECTION:
'six sound installations' (LINE_168)
by STEVE RODEN
10/2025
INFO:
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BANDCAMP:
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All LINE downloads 20% OFF with code 'goodbye2025' on Bandcamp
HΓΌsker DΓΌ by Daniel Corrigan
Stevie Chick talked to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart
Quietus Best Of 2025: HΓΌsker DΓΌ Interviewed
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how we spend our days is how we spend our lives, and how we spend our lives is what makes the world we live in
All poets working today need to read this article.
LINE 2025 REFLECTION:
'Forms of Paper (2024 remaster)' (LINE_158)
by STEVE RODEN
1/2025
INFO:
www.lineimprint.com/editions/sou...
BANDCAMP:
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+ special vinyl edition by @buhrecords.bsky.social
A collage of 24 books about urban and transport planning.
If our cities are shaped by stories, then great books form the foundation of knowledge and inspiration needed to build more liveable, inclusive and prosperous places.
These are 24 titles we read this year that informed our approach to changing hearts, minds and streets. An #UrbanismBookClub thread.
this is true. this is totally happening.
(out of Hitomaro
thicket
night mountains
birds spread
the tail rivet
the ruffling moon
lifting, lifting the eyes
light is gone in the sea
the stars are bringing down sleep
-Larry Eigner
"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flΓ’neur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of lifeβs great pleasures."
@sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes.
[via @thearsonista.bsky.social]
The plane
glints
in the sun, spins out
in smoke-
tufted straights,
loops
βeternal
<love, peace,> daysβ
nor had earth
appeared
more beautiful in its ruinsβ
luminous web
of sand, of
stone, grass, wind.
-Karin Lessing,
from βNazcaβ
Lorine Niedecker again, a few five-liners (with rhyming third and fourth lines). Written in 1957-58, shortly after Niedecker started working βa menial job at Fort Atkinson Memorial Hospital.β The tremendous punch of the wee.
Brian Lewis setting up displays at the first iteration of SHIP (Sheffield Independent Publishers), Winter Garden, Sheffield, July 2018. Photograph by Emma Bolland.
"The nature of a pop-up is that it is drawing to a close from the moment that it opens. This isnβt necessarily a bad thing. It can help to give it focus and purpose."
SHIP's log: notes from a pop-up bookshop
longbarrowpress.substack.com/p/ships-log
Vibrations that beat and dash at the eye at adhere eclipse at moved at at feverish at no matter at how much we at no matter no matter how at love we never enough
Rosmarie Waldrop
Nobody else is doing what a/g does
As iβve said before, and will probably say again, the most important twentieth century artist of the English landscape.
title graphic for above/ground press. founded July 1993 : CELEBRATING THIRTY-PLUS YEARS OF CONTINUOUS ACTIVITY + MORE THAN 1400 PUBLICATIONS TO DATE! Ottawa-based poetry chapbook + broadside publisher; publisher of The Peter F. Yacht Club (a writer's group magazine) + Touch the Donkey (a small poetry magazine) + G U E S T [a journal of guest editors] + periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics, as well as home of The Factory Reading Series (founded January 1993); edited/published/curated by rob mclennan
EVAD, the second chapter of Atlas, has been selected by @robmclennan.bsky.social for publication by above/ground press, forthcoming in 2026.
It's SO Steve.