some author activity: Schmaltz, Kaminski, Martin + mclennan,

Eric Schmaltz writes a report on the Avant-Canada conference recently held at Brock U; Megan Kaminski is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Camille Martin is nominated for a Pushcart Prize for her work in Posit; and rob mclennan has ten new poems in the second issue of Pallaksch.Pallaksch., edited by Elizabeth Robinson and Steven Seidenberg.

some author activity: Dyckman, beaulieu, Betts + Armantrout,

Audio of Susanne Dyckman--along with Joseph Noble, Tiff Dresden, Todd Melicker and Steven Seidenberg, among others--reading as part of the memorial for the late Colleen Lookingbill that occurred in May, 2014 in California is now online; derek beaulieu has visual poems featured on digital billboards around Calgary; Gregory Betts receives the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence over at Brock University for a variety of projects on and around bpNichol; and PoemTalk #81, in which Rae Armantrout, Laynie Browne, Kerry Sherin Wright and Al Filreis discuss two short poems by Fanny Howe is now online at Jacket2.