some author activity: Earl, eckhoff, Hajnoczky, Schmaltz + mclennan,

Amanda Earl has a new poem posted at h& (as does kevin mcpherson eckhoff) and Earl is featured in the "spotlight" series over at the Drunken Boat blog; Helen Hajnoczky has a new poem posted at the vehicule press blog; Eric Schmaltz is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and rob mclennan discusses his desk over at Real Pants.

some author activity: Higdon, Armantrout, Smith + Ladouceur,

The audio of a 2009 Philadelphia reading at Chapter & Verse by Hailey Higdon, alongside Jenn McCreary and Ethan Fugate, is now online; Rae Armantrout has two new poems online at Granta; Jessica Smith writes on her desk over at Real Pants; and Thomas March provides a very close reading of a poem by Ben Ladouceur over at Lambda Literary.