some author activity: Irwin, Pirie, Earl, Armantrout, Robertson + Rogal,

Marilyn Irwin responds to the "My Writing Process (a blog tour)" interview meme over at her blog; Pearl Pirie responds to Jennifer K. Dick's "WHAT IS YOUR FRAGMENT" prompt; Amanda Earl posts a new essay, "On Perfection in Poetry & the Need to Hoard One’s Poems" over at her enormously clever blog; Rae Armantrout had a poem posted at The Toronto Quarterly for National Poetry Month; Lisa Robertson has a new essay up at Winter Anthology; and Stan Rogal contributes an essay to the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

some author activity: Pirie, Barwin, hastain, Barton, Douglas, McKinnon, Simpson, Abel,

Pearl Pirie has a new poem in the March issue of Bywords.ca; Gary Barwin offers the fourth "first reading" of M. NourbeSe Philip's 'Zong' #6 over at Jacket2; j/j hastain responds to Jennifer K. Dick's series of essays on the fragment; John Barton has two new poems up at TRUCK, near the end of Colin Morton and Mary Lee Bragg's month curating March, as does Rhonda Douglas; Paul E. Nelson writes on Barry McKinnon; Rachael Simpson participates in the "My Writing Process - blog tour" interview; and Sean Cranbury interviews Jordan Abel for 49th Shelf.

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 activity: Martin, Lea, Barwin, Schmaltz, Reed + Jones,

Part seven of Camille Martin's Robert Zend essay focuses on the late Toronto poet bpNichol; profile on N.W. Lea now online at Open Book: Ontario; Gary Barwin wrote on Eric Schmaltz's typewriter poems for Paul Dutton, his recent chapbook, last summer (I'm just finding out about this now, myself) for Jacket2; Marthe Reed responds to Jennifer K. Dick's "what is YOUR fragment"; and D.G. Jones has a new poem posted as part of the Tuesday poem series.