some author activity: Babineau, Earl, fitzpatrick, Konchan, Carr, Perry, Blunt Research Group + mclennan,

Kemeny Babineau writes about the late Asphodel Books in Cleveland over at Medium; Amanda Earl, ryan fitzpatrick, Virginia Konchan, Emily Carr, Paul Perry and Blunt Research Group, among many others, have work in the winter volume of Action, Spectacle, an issue guest-edited by more than a dozen contemporary poets and editors, including rob mclennan.

some author activity: Barwin, beaulieu, Robertson, Earl + Carr,

Gary Barwin has some new work posted at h&, and is interviewed over at the Hamilton Arts Council website; a new interview with derek beaulieu now lives on the ottawa poetry newsletter, and he guest-blogs on running a small press; Lisa Robertson has a new poem up at Literary Hub; and Amanda Earl responds to some work by Emily Carr.

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: Turnbull, beaulieu, mclennan, Ursuliak, Robinson + Carr,

Chris Turnbull has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of #NationalPoetryMonth, as does derek beaulieu and rob mclennan; rob mclennan is interviewed by Emily Ursuliak at University of Calgary radio's Writer's Block; Elizabeth Robinson has some new work up at Web Conjunctions; and Emily Carr has a new piece posted as part of Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca

some author activity: Poe, Carr, mclennan, Graham + Cooley,

Deborah Poe has some new poems up at Loose Change 5.1; Emily Carr has three new poems, as well as a short write-up by rob mclennan, now online at Jacket2; rob mclennan has four new poems, a short essay and an interview conducted by Lea Graham up at Atticus Review; and Dennis Cooley has three new poems, as well as a short write-up by rob mclennan, now online at Jacket2.

some author activity: Kaminksi, Dyckman, Carr, hastain + Ursuliak,

Megan Kaminski offers an "object lesson" on the box of wine in The Atlantic; Susanne Dyckman is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Emily Carr has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; j/j hastain has a new essay posted as part of the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and Emily Ursuliak has a new piece up at One Throne magazine.

some author activity: Higdon, Kaminski, Carr, Landman, Butler + Robinson,

Hailey Higdon has a recent piece up at Coldfront; Megan Kaminski picks another "song of the week" over at Coldfront as well; Emily Carr has new work in the August 2014 issue of Front Porch; Seth Landman has some new work over in NOO Journal #15; Jenna Butler has a short piece on the CBC website on why one should never write in a vacuum; and forthcoming above/ground press author Elizabeth Robinson responds to Where Do You Write, My Lovely?

some author activity: Mangold, Carr, Hall, Dennis, Robertson + O'Connor,

Sarah Mangold has a new poem up in the Tuesday poem series at dusie; Emily Carr wraps up her OSU-Cascades residency with a final blog post, "Back From The Woods!"; Phil Hall has a new poem up on Susan Gillis' Concrete & River blog, as well as a short interview; Amy Dennis has new work in the sixth issue of Amanda Earl's experiment-o; Lisa Robertson responds to Rachel Levitsky's The Story of My Accident Is Ours over at Futurepost; and Wanda O'Connor has a new poem in the The Puritan: Issue XXIII.

some author activity: Poe, Armantrout, Carr, Smith, McNair, Waldrop + Clarke,

Deborah Poe and Rae Armantrout (as well as many others) have new poems in 1913: a journal of forms #6; Emily Carr has a lyric essay on "eating disorders and body image" in Better issue three; Jessica Smith has a new poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series up at the dusie blog; Christine McNair and her work gets a good write-up by Alejandro Bustos in Apt613; Rosmarie Waldrop's Camp Printing (1970) is now online as a pdf at ubu web; and George Elliott Clarke has two new poems up at The Toronto Review of Books.

some author activity: beaulieu, McKinnon, Carr, Martin, McCann, mclennan, Reid;

Calgary author derek beaulieu is shortlisted as one of six nominees for Calgary's first Poet Laureate, and, as such, here is a reading he did as part of the recent shortlist showcase; Prince George poet Barry McKinnon's poetry collection Pulp/Log is available (apparently) here as a free download (but you should really pick up a copy of his The Centre: Poems 1970-2000, published by Talonbooks in 2004, which also includes the collection); Emily Carr now has audio of her reading some of her poems online at One Pause Poetry Project (check her site here for further/ongoing updates on her doings); and above/ground press authors Camille Martin, Marcus McCann, rob mclennan and Monty Reid all have new works up in the fourth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics.

some author activity: Young, Carr, Martin, Armantrout + Ackerson-Kiely;

See what some of our authors are doing! Deanna Young was interviewed over at Open Book: Ontario, in anticipation of her chapbook launch on Friday; Emily Carr's Conversation Hearts for the Chinese New Year: A California Lyric, a photo essay/love poem, is live & online at www.ifshedrawsadoor.com; Collage: An interview with Camille Martin is now online at Amanda Earl's AngelHousePress; Rae Armantrout discusses her work and poetics in an interview over at PBS; and Paige Ackerson-Kiely posts this book trailer for her second trade poetry collection, just in time for her appearances at AWP and VERSeFest!

some author activity: Amanda Earl, rob mclennan + Emily Carr,

A "12 or 20 questions" interview with poet Emily Carr, and rob mclennan and Amanda Earl read as part of the launch of Air Out/In Air (ed. Pearl Pirie) at Collected Works Bookstore, Ottawa, Thursday, January 19.

some author activity: Amanda Earl, Emily Carr + Camille Martin,

above/ground press author Emily Carr has a new poem online at Front Porch, and Amanda Earl's March, 2011 VERSeFest reading of her above/ground press chapbook, The Sad Phoenician's Other Woman (still available, here), is now on-line (as well as a number of other VERSeFest readings), and Camille Martin blogs on her recent Kingston + Ottawa chapbook launches.

some author activity: Stephen Brockwell + Emily Carr,

Ottawa poet Stephen Brockwell read from his "Impossible Books" work-in-progress (that includes his above/ground press chapbook) at the In/words reading series the other night, and Odourless Press was good enough to post selected audio of the evening. In other news, Calgary poet Emily Carr, author of the above/ground chapbook, & look there goes a sparrow transplanting soil, has new poems online at Web Conjunctions, and even a new book. Did you know any of that?

new from above/ground press: & look there goes a sparrow transplanting soil by Emily Carr

& look there goes a sparrow transplanting soil

Emily Carr

$4

published in Ottawa by above/ground press
in an edition of 200 copies, December 2009
add $1 for postage (outside Canada, add $2 & in American currency)
with cheques to rob mclennan, c/o 858 Somerset Street West, main floor,
Ottawa Ontario Canada K1R 6R7
2010 subscriptions now available

Emily Carr is writing to loot to hew & Eden, a book of poetry that explores happiness from feminist & ecocritical perspectives. In 2010, directions for flying is forthcoming from Furniture Press & 13 ways of happily: books 1 & 2 is forthcoming from Parlor Press. Emily has received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center & the Jack Kerouac House. Her poetry has appeared most recently in Gargoyle, Margie, Caketrain, ISLE, Fiddlehead & The Antigonish.

Cover image by kevin mcpherson eckhoff