Some author activity: Hawkins, Turnbull, Sand, Anstee, MacLeod, Pirie, Earl + Young,

rob mclennan has written a profile of Ottawa's most dangerous poet, William Hawkins, performing tomorrow as part of the inaugural Verse Ottawa Hall of Honour; Chris Turnbull has some new work up at ditch; Kaia Sand was recently selected for the inaugural City of Portland Archives and Record Center Artist in Residence Program; Cameron Anstee, Kathryn MacLeod and Pearl Pirie all have new work in the sixth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics; Cameron Anstee and Amanda Earl each have new work up in the March issue of The Steel Chisel; and Deanna Young reads at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library for Poetry Month at 2pm, Saturday, April 20, 2013 with Heather Cadsby and Mary Ellen Csamer.