some author activity: Irwin, Turnbull, Bowering, Reid + mclennan,

Video of Marilyn Irwin's recent co-featured reading as part of The TREE Reading Series is now online; Chris Turnbull has a new essay up in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; George Bowering participates in "The Humour Issue Questionnaire" over at Poetry is Dead; Monty Reid is interviewed about Arc Poetry Magazine over at The Review Review; and there's a new interview with rob mclennan over at barsetshirediaries.

some author activity: beaulieu, Earl, McKinnon, mclennan + Abel

derek beaulieu has been doing a series of posts for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver blog, and his final post is on Erica Baum; Amanda Earl is featured on Lucy Morrissey's On paper blog; beaulieu and Mark Young have a new collaborative piece online at Text Image Sound Failure; the third of rob mclennan's four-part interview with Barry McKinnon is now online at the filling Station blog; Jordan Abel has sent out a call for submission for the eighth issue of Poetry is Dead magazine, focusing on sound; and ross priddle has been posting a regular series of above/ground press posts here and here on his bentspoon blog.