some author activity: Tynes, Farina, Cone, Brockwell, Unsworth, Weaver, Christie, Shafer, Houbolt + Armantrout,

Jen Tynes, Laura Farina, Jon Cone, Stephen Brockwell (for Jason Christie), Lydia Unsworth and forthcoming author Emily Shafer all have poems on the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month; Brockwell also has new work up at The Pi Review, as does Andy Weaver; Kyla Houbolt has work in eunoia review; and Rae Armantrout has a poem up at The New Yorker.

some author activity: Farina, Paty, Armantrout, Earl, Rogal + Stuart,

Laura Farina is interviewed via Chaudiere Books; Allyson Paty has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at dusie; Rae Armantrout has two new poems up at the London Review of Books; Amanda Earl is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, where both Cecilia Stuart and Stan Rogal also have poems.

new from above/ground press: CHOOSE YOUR OWN POEM, by Laura Farina

CHOOSE YOUR OWN POEM
Laura Farina
$4

It fidgets
with the tops
of pines.

It cups
the full
moon.





If you’d like morning to come, turn to page 6.
If you’d like to remain in the shadows, turn to page 9.

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
February 2019
a/g subscribers receive a complimentary copy

Laura Farina is the author of two full-length books of poetry, Some Talk of Being Human (Mansfield Press, 2014) and This Woman Alphabetical (Pedlar Press, 2005), as well as the chapbook, Diagnostic Tool (Gaspereau Press, 2017). Her picture book, This is the Path the Wolf Took is forthcoming from Kids Can Press. Laura is the recipient of the Archibald Lampman Award, and has appeared on the longlist for both the ReLit Award and the CBC Poetry Prize. She grew up in Ottawa and gradually made her way west. She now lives in Vancouver, where she coordinates arts programs, facilitates writers’ workshops and hangs out with her husband and son.

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