some author activity: Anstee, Graham, Poe + mclennan,

A recording of a reading Cameron Anstee did at Raw Sugar Cafe as part of a recent mini-tour was recently posted online (alongside Michael e. Casteels, Christine Miscione and Nicholas Papaxanthos); Lea Graham has a whole slew of new poems (including some epistolary piecces for the late Robert Kroetsch) up at ditch: the poetry that matters; Deborah Poe has a new poem posted as part of dusie's Tuesday poem series; and rob mclennan has a new little poem up on Halvard Johnson's On Barcelona.

some author activity: Armantrout, Martin, curry + Ross, mclennan + Barwin

Catharine Wagner interviewed poet Rae Armantrout recently for POETRYEATER; Camille Martin has some new poems up at On Barcelona; jwcurry and Stuart Ross did some sound poetry improv in the open set of The Dusty Owl Reading Series, June 23, 2013 in Ottawa; rob mclennan has a new prose poem, "Life, Sentence," up at Otoliths; and have you seen the ongoing pieces that Gary Barwin has been writing for Jacket2?

some author activity: mcpherson eckhoff, Weaver, Markotić, Cooley, Reid, Bowering, Hall + mclennan,

kevin mcpherson eckhoff [pictured] was in Ottawa over the weekend, where he launched his new chapbook, and even posed for a number of other pictures; Douglas Barbour has been editing TRUCK over the month of October, and including various above/ground press authors, including Andy Weaver, Nicole Markotić, Dennis Cooley, Monty Reid + George Bowering; Phil Hall is doing a lecture at Queen's in November, as part of a series he's started; and I even have a new poem up at Halvard Johnston's On Barcelona.