some author activity: Earl, Schmaltz, Betts, Young + Pirie,

Amanda Earl is (willingly) led astray by Anne Carson, and she even has a new poem up in the March issue of The Steel Chisel; Eric Schmaltz has some new work that went online recently, EVERY DAY IS BLACK FRIDAY, hosted by GAUSS PDF, and he reads on April 15th in Toronto as part of the Art Bar Reading Series; he also writes on Stephen Collis over at Lemonhound; Gregory Betts contributes an essay to the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Deanna Young has a couple of new poems up at TRUCK; and Pearl Pirie does a talk on "Remixing your Poetic Source Material" for the Canadian Authors Association in Ottawa on April 8, 2014.

some author activity: Earl, McNair + mclennan, hastain, Bolster;

In case you weren't aware, Amanda Earl spent the month of August celebrating Anne Carson; the sixth issue of summer stock features part of the ongoing collaboration by Christine McNair and rob mclennan (featured in their recent above/ground press title), as well as new work by j/j hastain, and a collaboration hastain is working on with Joseph Cooper, Travis Macdonald and Michelle Taransky; and rob mclennan answers Jonathan Ball's "what are you working on right now?"

And Stephanie Bolster has made the CBC Poetry shortlist!