some author activity: Armantrout, Niespodziany, O'Reilly, Norris + Boyle,

Rae Armantrout has a new poem in The Nation; forthcoming author Benjamin Niespodziany has some new work up at Back Patio Press; Nathanael O'Reilly participated in a live poetry reading at the largest stone circle in Ireland last Saturday, alongside Ciaran O'Driscoll, Linda Louise Galvin, Eoin Devereux, Emer Fallon, Daniel Wade, Matt Mooney and Barbara Byar, the entirety of which was created, edited, filmed and posted to YouTube by Kevin Bateman; Ken Norris has an essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and Frances Boyle has new work in Cauldron Anthology #13, the June 2021 issue of Bywords.ca, and The Minola Review.