some author activity: Cone, Eleftherion, Armantrout, Skrabalek + Gontarek,

forthcoming author Jon Cone has new work up at Ant5; Melissa Eleftherion has new work up at Moira; Rae Armantrout has a new poem, "craft talk," up at The Best American Poetry blog; the video recording of Ryan Skrabalek's Woolsey Heights reading in South Berkeley, California, alongside Cecily Nicholson, Ted Rees and Joni Flint Gonzales, is now online; and I missed it before, but apparently Maxwell Gontarek had some work online as part of the online journal for Pamenar Press.

some author activity: Abel, Smith, Caple + Polyck-O'Neill,

A new conversation between Jordan Abel and Cecily Nicholson has been posted at Rungh; Jessica Smith has new work up at 8 Poems; Natalee Caple has a new essay in the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and Julia Polyck-O'Neill is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal.