new from above/ground press

STANZAS #37
Americausal by Rob Budde

free if you find it, $4 sample (add $2 international) & $20 for 5 issues
(outside canada, $20 US)(payable to rob mclennan), c/o 858 somerset st w, ottawa ontario canada k1r 6r7

Rob Budde teaches creative writing and critical theory at the University of Northern BC in Prince George. He has published four books (two poetry -- Catch as Catch and traffick, and two experimental novels -- Misshapen and, most recently, The Dying Poem). Rob has also just recently published a collection of interviews (In Muddy Water: Conversations with 11 Poets, J. Gordon Shillingford), and with his new press, wink books, self-published the poetry chapbook my american movie. He has been a finalist for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer and the McNally-Robinson Manitoba Book of the Year. In 1995, Budde completed a PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary. Check out his online literary journals called stonestone (http://stonestone.unbc.ca) and the soon-to-appear literary archive push (http://push.unbc.ca ).

STANZAS magazine, for long poems/sequences, published at random in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. previous issues include work by Gil McElroy, Aaron Peck, carla milo, Gerry Gilbert, George Bowering, Sheila E. Murphy & Douglas Barbour, Lisa Samuels, Ian Whistle, Gerry Gilbert, nathalie stephens, Meredith Quartermain, etc. 1000 copies distributed free around various places. exchanges welcome. next issue: derek beaulieu (Calgary)

submissions encouraged, with s.a.s.e. & good patience (i take forever) of up to 28 pages.

complete bibliography & backlist availability now on-line at
www.track0.com/rob_mclennan