some author activity: Cooley, Best, Pirie, Roberston + Stewart,

Dennis Cooley is interviewed by Turnstone Press, and has a new poem (audio and text) online at Winnipeg Free Press; Ashley-Elizabeth Best has a new essay in the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Pearl Pirie has a new poem posted at h&; and Lisa Robertson reads with Christine Stewart on May 24th in Vancouver!

some author activity: Pirie, Robertson, Earl + Moritz,

Pearl Pirie writes on her phafours over at Brick Books' ongoing Celebration of Canadian Poetry, where Christine Stewart also writes on Lisa Robertson; Amanda Earl is interviewed by Volodymyr Bilyk for Zouch Magazine; and Rachel Moritz is running "The Poem As Time Machine" as part of the Iowa Summer Writing Festival from July 9-10, 2016.

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.

North of Intention: Stewart, Quartermain, Betts, L'Abbe, echoff + others,

Various Canadian authors (and above/ground press authors) participate in North of Intention over at Jacket2, including Christine Stewart and Meredith Quartermain on Fred Wah, Gregory Betts on M. NorbeSe Philip, Sonnet L'Abbe on Stephen Collis, kevin mcpherson eckhoff and Jake Kennedy (collaboratively) on Jordan Scott, all curated by Sarah Dowling.

some author activity: Poe, McKinnon, Anstee, Pirie, Brockwell, Maguire, Stewart, Butler, Barbour, macLean + Burke

Deborah Poe [who took the above photo, by the by] has some new work in the fifth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics; Barry McKinnon does as well, with his lecture from the 2nd annual VERSeFest Poetry Festival; a new series of lectures will be presented at a VERSeFest fundraiser on November 15th in Ottawa, by Cameron Anstee, Pearl Pirie and Stephen Brockwell, hosted by The Factory Reading Series; Shannon Maguire reads in Toronto on November 7 with Melannie Gayle and Katie Jordan to help Sarah Pinder launch her new Coach House Books poetry collection (you should totally go); and various authors from moons back, including Christine Stewart and Jenna Butler were part of Douglas Barbour's month-long TRUCK (they all had above/ground press chapbooks in the "Alberta Series," all of which appear online as free pdfs), as do kath macLean and Andrew Burke; and above/ground press makes the Tarpaulin Sky list of titles one can possibly review! (we choose to remain optimistic)