some author activity: Ladouceur, Mangold, Landman, Roberston + mclennan,

Ben Ladouceur reads as part of the Dragnet issue 7 launch on Thursday, January 7, 2013 in Toronto, alongside Lizy Mostowski and A.G. Pasquella; Sarah Mangold has a clever new website; Seth Landman has new work up at Aesthetix; Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler's Revolution: A Reader is now available from Paraguay Press; and rob mclennan posts his 'best of' list of 2012 Canadian poetry titles over at the dusie blog. 

And over the coming weeks and months? You know I've already told you: new works by Sonnet L'Abbe, Helen Hajnoczky, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Abby Paige, Jordan Abel, Brecken Hancock, etcetera...

some author activity: Pirie, Anstee, Brockwell, eckhoff, Robertson, Armantrout + beaulieu,

Pearl Pirie was good enough to write a report on the recent VERSeFest fundraiser hosted by The Factory Reading Series, featuring lectures/talks by herself, Stephen Brockwell and Cameron Anstee (Pearl's photo of Cameron, above); see what Harold Rhenisch recently posted about kevin mcpherson eckhoff (among others) here; there's a recent interview with Lisa Robertson and co-editor Matthew Stadler on their Revolution: A Reader (she also has some new work up on the new Lemonhound); there are some new poems by Rae Armantrout on Jacket2; and Laura Broadbent reviews 2 recent titles by derek beaulieu's NO Press on the new Lemonhound.