some author activity: Earl, Smith, Anstee, Ball + mclennan,

Amanda Earl has a new visual poem up at h&; Jessica Smith can be found at FORMATION; Cameron Anstee talks on Ottawa's CBC Radio on Nelson Ball's bpNichol Chapbook Award win; and rob mclennan has a new poem up at Truck.

some author activity: Reed, Prevost, Pirie, Irwin + beaulieu,

Marthe Reed has a new poem up at TRUCK; Roland Prevost and Pearl Pirie read today at 2pm in Kemptville, Ontario; Marilyn Irwin has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series at dusie; and derek beaulieu is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: Robinson, Earl, Armantrout, McNair + beaulieu,

Elizabeth Robinson responds (as do many others) to a request to reflect on "The Work of Poetry" for the 25th issue of Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Amanda Earl has a new visual poem up at Truck: a small article on Rae Armantrout's poetry appears in The Portland Mercury; there is now a video online of Christine McNair's reading in Vancouver as part of the Real Vancouver Writers' Series Third Anniversary Celebration, May 24, 2013; and Vancouver poet Kevin Spenst's performance of derek beaulieu visual poetry suite "quartet for 6 voices" is now up at soundcloud, as is Spenst's nephew's sound response "quartet for kevin."

some author activity: Pirie, Barwin, hastain, Barton, Douglas, McKinnon, Simpson, Abel,

Pearl Pirie has a new poem in the March issue of Bywords.ca; Gary Barwin offers the fourth "first reading" of M. NourbeSe Philip's 'Zong' #6 over at Jacket2; j/j hastain responds to Jennifer K. Dick's series of essays on the fragment; John Barton has two new poems up at TRUCK, near the end of Colin Morton and Mary Lee Bragg's month curating March, as does Rhonda Douglas; Paul E. Nelson writes on Barry McKinnon; Rachael Simpson participates in the "My Writing Process - blog tour" interview; and Sean Cranbury interviews Jordan Abel for 49th Shelf.

some author activity: Earl, Schmaltz, Betts, Young + Pirie,

Amanda Earl is (willingly) led astray by Anne Carson, and she even has a new poem up in the March issue of The Steel Chisel; Eric Schmaltz has some new work that went online recently, EVERY DAY IS BLACK FRIDAY, hosted by GAUSS PDF, and he reads on April 15th in Toronto as part of the Art Bar Reading Series; he also writes on Stephen Collis over at Lemonhound; Gregory Betts contributes an essay to the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Deanna Young has a couple of new poems up at TRUCK; and Pearl Pirie does a talk on "Remixing your Poetic Source Material" for the Canadian Authors Association in Ottawa on April 8, 2014.

some author activity: Reid, Cooley, Pirie, beaulieu, mclennan, McNair + McCann,

Monty Reid has a new piece up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; Dennis Cooley has six new poems up at Canadian Poetries; Pearl Pirie has some new work up at Halvard Johnson's TRUCK, as does derek beaulieu; rob mclennan responds to Jennifer K. Dick's series of essays on the fragment; and Ryan Pratt posted a report on Hamilton's LitLive Reading Series from March 2, 2014, including readings by Christine McNair, Marcus McCann and a couple of others.

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.

August's TRUCK: Rogal, Martin, Reid, Earl, MacLeod, McCann, McElroy, Anstee, Irwwin, MillAr, Jackson, McKinnon + mclennan,

I've been editing Halvard Johnson's TRUCK throughout August, and have included new poems by various above/ground press authors (the benefit of having produced so much, and for so long, it means a great many writers can be considered authors), including Stan Rogal, Camille Martin, Monty Reid, Amanda Earl, Kathryn MacLeod, Marcus McCann, Gil McElroy, Cameron Anstee, Marilyn Irwin, Jay MillAr, Meghan Jackson (who published a couple of above/ground press items under the name meghan lynch), George Bowering and Barry McKinnon, and forthcoming authors Lary Bremner and Jordan Abel, ending the month with a piece of my own, here. Check the entire month's worth, also featuring poems by nikki reimer, Daphne Marlatt, David McGimpsey, Kim Minkus and more.

And don't forget the 19th anniversary sale! only until September 15,

some author activity: Graham, Pirie, Bremner, mclennan, McNair, beaulieu

one of Lea Graham's series of epistolary poems for Robert Kroetsch is online at Atticus Review; Pearl Pirie has a new piece online at TRUCK, alongside rob mclennan, and perpetually forthcoming above/ground press author Lary Bremner; two pieces from rob mclennan's "Songs for little sleep," are online at The Offending Adam, alongside a small critical note on mclennan's two poems, and he has an interview over at Open Book: Ontario; Christine McNair has an interview over at Open Book: Ontario as well, and another at the Grey Borders site; and derek beaulieu now has a selected poems. What the...? 


Don't forget the mclennan/McNair pre-wedding SOCIAL tomorrow night, and the SPAO reading the following evening, featuring seven Ottawa poets (Earl, Pirie, Reid, Ridley, Radmore, mclennan + McNair).

And we will see you at the ottawa small press book fair on June 30th, right?