some author activity: Martin, Burdick, Earl, Notley + Witek,

Camille Martin has posted "My Evangeline (an illustrated personal essay)" over at her Rogue Embryo blog; Alice Burdick is featured on Catherine Owen's Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws podcast; and Amanda Earl writes about above/ground press, Alice Notley and forthcoming author Terri Witek as part of her AngelHousePress Caring Imagination Crowd Funding Campaign.

some author activity: Blades, mclennan, Dyckman, Robinson, Townsend + Pakdel,

Catherine Owen podcasts a commemoration for the late Joe Blades as episode #34; rob mclennan, Susanne Dyckman, Elizabeth Robinson and Jamie Townsend, among others, have work in the new issue of Trilobite; and Saba Pakdel has a poem in the Poetry Pause series via The League of Canadian Poets.

Amanda Earl on Catherine Owen (via Lemonhound)

Ottawa poet, editor and publisher Amanda Earl blogged on Edmonton poet Catherine Owen's chapbook Fyre (above/ground press, 2008), originally published as a chapbook, and republished online as a free, downloadable pdf publication, all part of the above/ground press ALBERTA SERIES.