some author activity: Hoefle, Zhang, Trivedi, Paige, Oniță + Webb,

forthcoming author Harold Hoefle is interviewed via Chaudiere Books in the "six questions" series; Elena Zhang is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Amish Trivedi has new work at autocorrect; Salem Paige has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Adriana Oniță is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Lindsey Webb is named a finalist for this year's Loraine Williams Poetry Prize, hosted by The Georgia Review.

some author activity: fitzpatrick, Smith, Mody, mclennan, Burdick, Aube + Solomon,

ryan fitzpatrick has work up at NewPoetry; Dale Martin Smith has a new piece up at Annulet; Monica Mody has two poems up at Art of the Commune; rob mclennan has some new work up at North of Oxford; Alice Burdick also has new work up at NewPoetry; Gwen Aube is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Misha Solomon has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series.

some author activity: Inniss, Carpenter, Lea, benedict, Solomon + Flemmer,

Scott Inniss has new work in the Spotlight series; J.R. Carpenter is featured in the Canadian Poets Series over at Peripety and/or Tronies; N.W. Lea is interviewed via the above/ground press substack; alex benedict has a new essay on d.a. levy over at Cleveland Review of Books; Misha Solomon is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Kyle Flemmer is interviewed over at the podcast On Creative Writing.

some author activity: Smith, Unrau, Bell, Myers + Ross,

Steve Ross Smith has a new song up at bandcamp; Melanie Dennis Unrau is interviewed via the "12 or 20 questions" series; Wade Bell has new work up at Public Reverie; Peter Myers has new work up at noir sauna; and Stuart Ross is interviewed by Tali Voron-Leiderman for The Ampersand Review.

some author activity: Vitkauskas, van Vliet, Betts, Beaulieu, Kemp, Smith, Barwin + Jarvis,

did you know that Lina Ramona Vitkauskas has a substack? ; Robert van Vliet answers the "12 or 20 questions"; Gregory Betts is a guest on Richard Capener's Morgiana Podcast/substack, where I had clearly missed that Derek Beaulieu had also been a guest, as had Penn Kemp; some new Steven Ross Smith collaborations are now up at bandcamp; Gary Barwin has a new visual poem up at Asemana Magazine; and Jenna Jarvis has new work up at Discordia Review.

some author activity: Barwin, Nećakov, Cain, mclennan, Smith + Davis,

Gary Barwin and Lillian Nećakov have some collaborative work up in the Tuesday poem series; Book*hug Press features Stephen Cain as part of their National Poetry Month spotlight series; rob mclennan has a new poem on the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month; Mahaila Smith is interviewed in the 12 or 20 questions series; and Jordan Davis is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: Browne, mclennan, Paty, Boyle + Saklikar,

forthcoming author Laynie Browne is one of a trio--along with Anselm Berrigan and Kate Colby--discussing Lewis Warsh's poem "Polar Night" as part of the most recent podcast episode of PoemTalk; rob mclennan is interviewed by Hollay Ghadery for the New Books Network podcast; Allyson Paty answers the "12 or 20 questions" interview; rob mclennan has a new poem up at Sumac Literary Review, as does Frances Boyle; and Renée Sarojini Saklikar is the second in the Canadian Poets series over at Peripety and/or Tronies.

some author activity: Donato, Robinson, Ross, mclennan, Inniss + Boyle,

Joseph Donato has a poem in the "Tuesday poem" series; Ben Robinson answers the '12 or 20 questions' interview; Stuart Ross has new poems in the new issue of Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, as does rob mclennan, who also has a piece up at Still Point; Scott Inniss had some work up at Still Point a while back, also; and Frances Boyle has a poem online at The New Quarterly,

some author activity: Levy, Webb, Robinson, Banks, Naughton + Smith,

forthcoming author John Levy is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Lindsey Webb is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series; Elizabeth Robinson has new work up at Conjunctions; Chris Banks has a new essay up at The Woodlot; Katie Naughton has new work up at Still Point; and Mahaila Smith is interviewed via Chaudiere Books.

some author activity: Brenner, Baus, mclennan, Kaminski + Burnham,

Summer Brenner has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; some of Eric Baus' poems were translated into Czech; rob mclennan is featured via Instagram on Stephanie Austin's mugshot writers; Megan Kaminski features at Etcetera; and Clint Burnham is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series.

some author activity: Reid, Logan, Higdon, Houbolt + Munson,

Monty Reid is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Nate Logan has new work up at Otoliths, as well as Leavings; Hailey Higdon wrote an article on mothering for Nashville Scene; forthcoming author Kyla Houbolt has a prose poem up at Idle Ink; and Jed Munson answers the '12 and 20 questions.'

some author activity: Mellis, O'Reilly, Melançon + Dennis,

forthcoming author Miranda Mellis has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series via the dusie blog; Nathanael O'Reilly has new work up at axon; Jérôme Melançon has work featured in the Spotlight Series; and Amy Dennis is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series

some author activity: Gunnars, Mohammadi, Clayton, Hancock + O'Reilly,

[Khashayar Mohammadi, Amish Trivedi + rob mclennan during the recent VERSeFest/Factory Lecture Series event; photo by Pearl Pirie] Kristjana Gunnars participates in Turnstone Press' 2 Poem Tuesday alongside D.A. Lockhart; Khashayar Mohammadi participates in the "12 or 20 questions" interview series; Conyer Clayton has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; VERSeFest 2021 poet-in-residence Brecken Hancock does an interview for Rogers Ottawa; and Nathanael O'Reilly has a new poem in the latest issue of Backstory.

some author activity: Joseph, mclennan, Moore, MacEachern + Dowling,

Alexander Joseph was interviewed for Boulder Jewish News; rob mclennan has posted a new poem to his blog, and another at Watch Your Head, and a further at Train : a poetry journal; Nathan Alexander Moore is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Jessi MacEachern participates in the "12 or 20 questions" interview series; and Sarah Dowling is co-editing (with Jane Malcolm) a special issue of Amodern, tentatively titled "Body and/as Procedure," and seeks critical papers!

some author activity: O'Reilly, Boyle, mclennan, Williams, eckhoff, Pirie + fitzpatrick

Nathanael O'Reilly responds to the '12 or 20 questions' interview; Frances Boyle has new work up at long con magazine and Sheila-Na-Gig, a YouTube reading of three poems included in Dreich, as well as work in the second issue of n-o-b-o-d-y alongside rob mclennan, Julia Williams, kevin mcpherson echkoff, Pearl Pirie, ryan fitzpatrick and multiple others.

some author activity: Cortese, mclennan, Vaughan, Cooley, Saklikar + Turnbull

Franco Cortese answers the "12 or 20 questions"; rob mclennan recently posted a poem for the late RM Vaughan; Dennis Cooley has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Renée Sarojini Saklikar has helped launch "Poetry Phone" through the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, providing "Vancouver's first free poetry hotline," and featuring readings by Vancouver poets; and Chris Turnbull has some new work up at The Pi Review.

some author activity: Izsak, Sweeney, Kinaschuk, Clayton + Pirie,

Emily Izsak has a new poem on the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month, as does Heather Sweeney; Kyle Kinaschuk has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; Conyer Clayton is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and both Conyer Clayton and Pearl Pirie participate in Red Alder Review's open mic series.

some author activity: Robinson, Maloukis, Campos + Hogg,

Ben Robinson has some new work up at The /tƐmz/ Review; forthcoming author Rose Maloukis has an essay in the my (small press) writing day series; Isabel Sobral Campos is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" interview series; and Robert Hogg has three new poems (text and audio) up on the Pamenar Press website.

some author activity: Turnbull, Mavreas, Clayton, Barwin, Eleftherion + Braune,

[accidental blueberry damage to a stack of Chris Turnbull chapbooks, during one of my weekends away on the farm] Billy Mavreas and Conyer Clayton, among others, have new work in the twelfth issue of Amanda Earl's experiment-o; Gary Barwin has some poems online at Granta; Melissa Eleftherion has three new poems up at Burning House Press; and Sean Braune is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series.

some author activity: Hall, Landman, mclennan, Gray + Townsend,

University of New Brunswick writer-in-residence Phil Hall is written up in in the brunswickan; Seth Landman has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; rob mclennan answers the "12 or 20 questions," via Vallum magazine, and has a new poem up at his clever blog; forthcoming author Evan Gray has an essay in the "my (small press) writing day" series; and Jamie Townsend has new work in the second issue of baest : a journal of queer forms & affects.