some author activity: Tynes, O'Reilly + Robertson,

Jen Tynes was offering nearly-daily poems as part of National Poetry Month over at the Bloof Books blog; Nathanael O'Reilly has new work up at Cordite; and there is a new interview with Lisa Robertson up at minor literature[s], as conducted by Christina Politano.

some author activity: o'brien, Robertson + Melançon,

forthcoming author katie o'brien has a poem up in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Elena Betros López interviews Lisa Robertson over at Cordite; and Jérôme Melançon is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews.

Cordite Poetry Review: Robertson, beaulieu, Abel, Christie, Bolster + Barton,

As part of the collaboration between Arc Poetry Magazine and Cordite Poetry Review, the new issue of Cordite, "Oh Canada," includes work by a variety of above/ground press authors including Lisa Robertson, derek beaulieu, Jordan Abel, Jason Christie, Stephanie Bolster and John Barton, as well as work by non-above/ground press authors (as yet) Margaret Christakos, Stephen Collis, Sharon Thesen, Sachiko Murakami, Sonnet L'Abbé, Sandy Pool, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Aisha Sasha John and much much much more. Go read it now!

some author activity: de Meijer, Smith, Robertson, Francheteau, Jacobs + Hancock

Sadiqa de Meijer has both a new poem and an interview over at Susan Gillis' Concrete & River blog; Jessica Smith has some new work up at Cordite Poetry Review; Lisa Robertson's "Hotel Couplets" is now up at Poets.org; and Pearl Pirie was good enough to write up a post-reading report on the recent JM Francheteau, Danny Jacobs and Sadiqa de Meijer event (lovingly guest-hosted by Brecken Hancock) as part of The Factory Reading Series.

some author activity: Poe, Barwin, Brockwell, Martin, mclennan, Reed + Wilkinson,

Deborah Poe has some new work in "the special issue" of eccolinguistics; Gary Barwin's essay, "Author Notes from the Vaults: The Present 'House' of Story," is now online at The Town Crier, as is a similar essay by Stephen Brockwell, and a further by rob mclennan; Camille Martin writes about the loss of a tree; rob mclennan and Marthe Reed both have new poems up at Tarpaulin Sky; rob has another new poem up at Cordite Poetry Review; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson interviews Julie Doxsee over at The Conversant.