some author activity: Pirie, Tucker, Burgoyne, Braune + Notley,

Pearl Pirie is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews, as is Aaron Tucker; Sarah Burgoyne has three sonnets up at Lemonhound 3.0; Sean Braune has a new essay up at my (small press) writing day; and Alice Notley is interviewed by Ottawa's artsfile.

some author activity: mclennan, Archer, dueck + Earl,

rob mclennan and Sacha Archer have new poems in the first issue of where is the river :: a poetry experiment; nathan dueck has new work up at Lemonhound; and Amanda Earl reads next week at Toronto's Harbourfront, as part of the International Festival of Authors.

some author activity: Abel, McCann, Morton, mclennan + Archer,

Jordan Abel is part of a new editorial board at Wolsak and Wynn; Marcus McCann has a poem, "Sex at thirty-one," over at Lemonhound; Colin Morton and rob mclennan participate in "my (small press) writing day"; and Sacha Archer has a new visual poem up at h&.

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: Ursuliak, Smith, Tucker, Greenstreet + Landman,

a new interview with Emily Ursuliak recently appeared at Touch the Donkey; Jessica Smith has a new poem up at Delirious Hem, as well as at Drunken Boat; Aaron Tucker is included in the "Emerging Toronto Poets Folio" over at Lemonhound; Kate Greenstreet also has a new poem up at Delirious Hem; and Seth Landman has some new poems up at Queen Mobs Teahouse.

some author activity: Hajnoczky, Hancock, Ursuliak, Adams + Armantrout,

Helen Hajnoczky has five new poems up at Lemonhound; Brecken Hancock is interviewed by Ariel Gordon over at The Jane Day Reader; Emily Ursuliak has a new essay posted as part of the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Carrie Olivia Adams has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; and Rae Armantrout has some new poems posted in print and online in Lana Turner #7

some author activity: Armantrout, Barwin, Robertson, Kaminski + Brockwell,

Rae Armantrout is interviewed by Kaveh Akbar over at divedapper; Gary Barwin has some new visual poems over at NewPoetry (check out his writer-in-residence office hours and upcoming reception and reading/performance here); Lisa Robertson writes on Nicole Brossard, newly translated and posted up at Lemonhound; Megan Kaminski has four new poems in the New Orleans Review; and we didn't know until now that Stephen Brockwell had a poem up at Porkopolis.

some author activity: Waldrop, Robertson, Smith, Massey + Poe,

Rosmarie Waldrop's "Inalienable writes (PoemTalk #47)" was recently featured at Jacket2; Lisa Robertson writes on Peter Culley over at Lemonhound; and audio from Robertson's reading in Vancouver on March 19, 2014 at The Western Front is now online at The Capilano Review; Jessica Smith writes on Susan Howe over at Literary Mothers; Karen Massey's "fuse," an erasure poem based on Charles Bukowski’s poem "funhouse," is now online at Bukowski on Wry; and Deborah Poe reviews Meredith Stricker's Mistake over at Jacket2.

some author activity: Abel, Hancock, Markotić, Cooley, Graham, hastain, Barbour, Murphy, eckhoff + Pirie,

Jordan Abel is interviewed in the "Six Questions" series for the sake of his inclusion on the 2014 Gerald Lampert Award shortlist; Brecken Hancock has four poems up on Lemonhound; both Nicole Markotić and Dennis Cooley have new poems up at Atticus Review, as well as a short introductory essay on their work by Lea Graham; j/j hastain, as well as Douglas Barbour and Sheila E. Murphy, have new work in the second issue of Posit; there's a new interview with kevin mcpherson eckhoff up at Poets Touching Trees; and Pearl Pirie participates in the "My Writing Process: Blog Tour" meme.

some author activity: Earl, Schmaltz, Betts, Young + Pirie,

Amanda Earl is (willingly) led astray by Anne Carson, and she even has a new poem up in the March issue of The Steel Chisel; Eric Schmaltz has some new work that went online recently, EVERY DAY IS BLACK FRIDAY, hosted by GAUSS PDF, and he reads on April 15th in Toronto as part of the Art Bar Reading Series; he also writes on Stephen Collis over at Lemonhound; Gregory Betts contributes an essay to the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Deanna Young has a couple of new poems up at TRUCK; and Pearl Pirie does a talk on "Remixing your Poetic Source Material" for the Canadian Authors Association in Ottawa on April 8, 2014.

some author activity: Irwin, Schmaltz, mclennan, Earl, Barwin, Graham, Abel + Dueck,

Marilyn Irwin now has a blog, which you should (obviously) read, for poems, upcoming readings, publications and anything else she might be up to; Eric Schmaltz reads at UNDEFINED in Toronto with Liz Worth, Lindsay Cahill, Phil Miletic, Juli Bisson Whittom, Andrew James Paterson and POEM (Worth and Jacqueline Valencia) at Playful Grounds, 605 College Street, Toronto on Wednesday, April 23 at 6pm; rob mclennan participates in "My writing process--blog tour," over on his blog, as do tagged authors Amanda Earl and Gary Barwin; and, in case you missed it, Lea Graham was guest blogger over at The Best American Poetry blog for the week of March 11-15, and posted such things as this and this and this and this and this; Lemonhound recently posted Jordan Abel and Renée Saklikar in Conversation: Accumulation as a Political Act; and Nathan Dueck answers the Canadian Poetries questionnaire.

some author activity: Barwin, mclennan, Waldrop, Hall + Earl,

Gary Barwin has a short film he did with Jenna Mariash, "The Hand," now up at Lemonhound; Ryan Pratt includes two above/ground press titles in his 'top five books I read this year' over at his blog, titles by rob mclennan and Rosmarie Waldrop, linking back to the reviews he originally posted at the ottawa poetry newsletter blog; Phil Hall has the final "Tuesday poem" of 2013; rob mclennan lists his "'best of' list of 2013 Canadian poetry books" over at the dusie blog; and Amanda Earl starts a new 2014 feature over at her blog.

some author activity: Paige, Ladoueur, Poe, Robertson + The Factory Reading Series,

Abby Paige has a new essay, "On the Invention of Writing," posted as part of the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Ben Ladouceur is interviewed by Ruckus Readings; Deborah Poe writes on Megan Burns, and Lisa Roberston writes on John Clare, over at Lemonhound; and Pearl Pirie was good enough to post a report on the recent Factory Reading Series event with Dale Smith, Hoa Nguyen and Mari-Lou Rowley.

some author activity: Smith, Blouin, McElroy, mclennan, beaulieu + Poe,

Jessica Smith has some poems up in the first issue of N/A; co-author Michael Blouin's "On process" essay is the fourth piece in the ongoing "On writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Gil McElroy and rob mclennan have new essays in the seventh issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics; derek beaulieu gets some love from Eric Schmaltz over at Lemonhhound; and Deborah Poe's reading at Ivy Writers Paris, May, 2013 has been posted (with a report) up at YouTube.

Rae Armantrout to judge Lemon Hound's First Poetry Contest

For Immediate Release

June 28, 2013

LEMON HOUND wants to create better opportunities for critical writing, and one sure way to support critical writing is paying for it.  In an effort to do so, Lemon Hound announces its first poetry contest. The contest is part of a fundraising endeavor and all proceeds will go towards generating financial support for its reviewers.

LEMON HOUND is offering a $750 cash prize as well as online publication for one unpublished poem written in English. Entry deadline is November 15th, 2013. To enter visit our submittable page. Only entries submitted through our online server will be considered. Entry fee is $10 per poem. Multiple submissions are welcome, but each poem must be entered individually.

We are pleased to announce that Guggenheim Fellow (2008) and Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout will be this year’s judge. Armantrout is the widely anthologized poet whose most recent publications include: Just Saying (Wesleyan UP, 2013), Money Shot (Wesleyan UP, 2011), and Versed (Wesleyan UP, 2009), for which she won the Pulitzer in 2010 as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego.

Armantrout is also the author of the chapbook Custom (above/ground press, 2012). A second chapbook is forthcoming in fall 2013.

some author activity: Armantrout, mclennan, eckhoff, Prevost + Maguire,

"A Second Look: The Poetry of Rae Armantrout," in SF State magazine; rob mclennan has the third essay in the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; kevin mcpherson eckhoff and last year's Fish Quill Poetry Boat Tour; Roland Prevost has a new poem up as part of the dusie "Tuesday Poem" series; and Eric Schmaltz writes on Shannon Maguire over at Lemonhound.

some author activity: Abel, Martin, eckhoff, beaulieu, Wilkinson + Robertson,

Jordan Abel has a poem now available online at Canadian Literature; Camille Martin has a new poem up at Similar Peaks; kevin mcpherson eckhoff gets some love in the Vernon Morning Star; derek beaulieu is interviewed at Open Book as part of The WAR Series; Joshua Marie Wilkinson writes on Graham Foust over at RescuePress; and Lisa Robertson writes on Denise Riley over at Lemonhound.

some author activity: Turnbull, Pirie, Armantrout, Robertson, Mangold + hastain,

a. rawlings did a small write-up on above/ground press author Chris Turnbull's "rout/e" project; Pearl Pirie discusses Rae Armantrout in her essay, "What is Being Said," recently posted on her blog; Michael Redhill discusses Lisa Robertson over at Lemonhound; Armantrout reads Fanny Howe's poem "9/11" over at the Library of Congress website; Tsering Wangmo Dhompa writes on Sarah Mangold over at Harriet; and j/j hastain has a new poem posted on the Dusie blog as part of the Tuesday poem.

some author activity: Martin, Roberton, McCann, Smith, beaulieu + Wilkinson,

Camille Martin has some new work up at otoliths; Lisa Robertson writes on Dionne Brand over on Lemonhound; Marcus McCann discusses one of his recent poems over at the Town Crier; Jessica Smith has some new work up at Word for Word: Gary Barwin discusses derek beaulieu's piece, "Prose of the Trans-Canada," over at Jacket2; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson discusses The Volta over at the Poetry Society of America.

some author activity: Norris, Gold, Armantrout, Martin + mclennan,

Vehicule poets and above/ground press authors Ken Norris and Artie Gold are part of the brand-new Vehicule Poets website; Will Vallières discusses the title poem of Rae Armantrout's chapbook, Custom, over at Lemonhound; Camille Martin has new poetry up at The Rusty Toque, and reads in Vancouver with Andrew Kaufman and Barry Webster at the UBC Robson Reading Series on March 14, 2013; and rob mclennan has a new poem on Konundrum Engine Literary Engine.