some author activity: Robinson, Earl, Armantrout, McNair + beaulieu,

Elizabeth Robinson responds (as do many others) to a request to reflect on "The Work of Poetry" for the 25th issue of Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Amanda Earl has a new visual poem up at Truck: a small article on Rae Armantrout's poetry appears in The Portland Mercury; there is now a video online of Christine McNair's reading in Vancouver as part of the Real Vancouver Writers' Series Third Anniversary Celebration, May 24, 2013; and Vancouver poet Kevin Spenst's performance of derek beaulieu visual poetry suite "quartet for 6 voices" is now up at soundcloud, as is Spenst's nephew's sound response "quartet for kevin."