some author activity: dueck, Pirie, Carr, Budde + McCann,

nathan dueck has some new work up at Canadian Poetries; Pearl Pirie is interviewed by Wanda Praamsma over at BookThug; Emily Carr has some new work up at Posit; Rob Budde has some new work up at Lemonhound; and Marcus McCann's homage to David McGimpsey is now up at Open Book: Toronto.

some author activity: Moritz, mclennan, McElroy, hastain, Pirie + Stewart,

Rachel Moritz is interviewed over at the website for the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation; rob mclennan's short 'commentary' on Gil McElroy is now up at Jacket2; a new interview with j/j hastain is now up at Touch the Donkey; Pearl Pirie answers the "Canadian Poetries Questionnaire"; and Christine Stewart has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog.

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: Irwin, Schmaltz, mclennan, Earl, Barwin, Graham, Abel + Dueck,

Marilyn Irwin now has a blog, which you should (obviously) read, for poems, upcoming readings, publications and anything else she might be up to; Eric Schmaltz reads at UNDEFINED in Toronto with Liz Worth, Lindsay Cahill, Phil Miletic, Juli Bisson Whittom, Andrew James Paterson and POEM (Worth and Jacqueline Valencia) at Playful Grounds, 605 College Street, Toronto on Wednesday, April 23 at 6pm; rob mclennan participates in "My writing process--blog tour," over on his blog, as do tagged authors Amanda Earl and Gary Barwin; and, in case you missed it, Lea Graham was guest blogger over at The Best American Poetry blog for the week of March 11-15, and posted such things as this and this and this and this and this; Lemonhound recently posted Jordan Abel and Renée Saklikar in Conversation: Accumulation as a Political Act; and Nathan Dueck answers the Canadian Poetries questionnaire.

some author activity: Reid, Cooley, Pirie, beaulieu, mclennan, McNair + McCann,

Monty Reid has a new piece up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; Dennis Cooley has six new poems up at Canadian Poetries; Pearl Pirie has some new work up at Halvard Johnson's TRUCK, as does derek beaulieu; rob mclennan responds to Jennifer K. Dick's series of essays on the fragment; and Ryan Pratt posted a report on Hamilton's LitLive Reading Series from March 2, 2014, including readings by Christine McNair, Marcus McCann and a couple of others.

Some author interviews: McKinnon, Mangold, Landman, Lindner, McNair, Barbour + Butler,

A wide array of author interviews! The full interview rob mclennan conducted with Barry McKinnon for filling Station magazine is now online; Sarah Mangold is interviewed over at seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics; Seth Landman, Erik Lindner and Christine McNair participate in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Douglas Barbour and Jenna Butler have a conversation over at Canadian Poetries.

some author activity: beaulieu, Armantrout, McNair + Maguire,

derek beaulieu has three new visual poems up at Canadian Poetries; Rae Armantrout has a new poem from the new issue of Poetry magazine up at the Poetry Foundation blog;  Christine McNair has a work included in the Contemporary Book Arts in Eastern Ontario exhibit at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario until the end of May, 2013, and she will be participating with Shannon Maguire in Harbourfront's Battle of the Bards in Toronto on April 3, 2013; and until the end of March, we have a banner ad over at The Review Review (produced with our eternal gratitude by Pearl Pirie); might it gain us a few more subscribers? Some more individual orders? Who knows...

some author activity: Robertson, Pirie, Hancock, mclennan, Martin, hastain + Nichol,

Are you ready for spring yet? Until then, there's a new interview with Lisa Robertson at The Rusty Toque; Pearl Pirie has a new essay up at Canadian Poetries, and a new poem over at Poem in Which; Pirie was also good enough to post a photo of Brecken Hancock from her recent appearance in the open set at The TREE Reading Series; Camille Martin gets reviewed over at Bookslut; j/j hastain participates in The Next Big Thing self-interview series; and the online archive for the late Toronto poet bpNichol has been extensively updated.