some author activity: Armantrout, Boyle, mclennan, FitzGerald, Naughton + Ebbitt,

Rae Armantrout has a poem up at The Academy of American Poets website; Frances Boyle has new work up at iamb; rob mclennan has new work up at Eunoia Review, and provides a list of recommended reading via 49th Shelf; Ian FitzGerald answers the "six questions" interview questions via the Chaudiere Books blog; Katie Naughton is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Katie Ebbitt has new work in the "Tuesday poem" series via dusie,

some author activity: eckhoff, Kaminski, Hancock, Barwin, Irwin + Stewart,

kevin mcpherson eckhoff emerges from the west to perform in Toronto on August 21 as part of "poems to be performed by kevin mcpherson eckhoff (with or without a green elfin mask)"; Megan Kaminski has a new poem up at Finery; Brecken Hancock answers the Canadian Poetries questionnaire; Gary Barwin has a "Red Letter Day" over at 49th Shelf; and Marilyn Irwin and Christine Stewart both have new work in the tenth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics.

some author activity: Tucker, mclennan, McElroy, Anstee, Hawkins + Barwin,

Aaron Tucker has a couple of new poems up at Moss Trill, as does rob mclennan; mclennan is interviewed over at 'poets touching trees'; Gil McElroy has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series at the dusie blog; Cameron Anstee posted this bibliography of Ottawa poet William Hawkins, for the sake of Hawkins' recent seventy-fourth birthday; and Gary Barwin was recently announced as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Western Ontario for the 2014-15 academic year. Congratulations, Gary!

some author activity: Pirie, Barwin, hastain, Barton, Douglas, McKinnon, Simpson, Abel,

Pearl Pirie has a new poem in the March issue of Bywords.ca; Gary Barwin offers the fourth "first reading" of M. NourbeSe Philip's 'Zong' #6 over at Jacket2; j/j hastain responds to Jennifer K. Dick's series of essays on the fragment; John Barton has two new poems up at TRUCK, near the end of Colin Morton and Mary Lee Bragg's month curating March, as does Rhonda Douglas; Paul E. Nelson writes on Barry McKinnon; Rachael Simpson participates in the "My Writing Process - blog tour" interview; and Sean Cranbury interviews Jordan Abel for 49th Shelf.