some author activity: mclennan, Niespodziany, Jenks, Shirley, Williams, Logan, Kemp-Gee + Young,

rob mclennan has a poem up at Pamenar Press online; the full event of Benjamin Niespodziany's Surreal-Absurd Reading Marathon, featuring a handful of above/ground press authors including Tom Jenks, Vik Shirley, Evan Williams and Nate Logan, is now up on YouTube! ; Meghan Kemp-Gee has a new poem up at Eunoia Review; and Geoffrey Young had a poem a while back on the Best American Poetry blog.

some author activity: Cone, Eleftherion, Armantrout, Skrabalek + Gontarek,

forthcoming author Jon Cone has new work up at Ant5; Melissa Eleftherion has new work up at Moira; Rae Armantrout has a new poem, "craft talk," up at The Best American Poetry blog; the video recording of Ryan Skrabalek's Woolsey Heights reading in South Berkeley, California, alongside Cecily Nicholson, Ted Rees and Joni Flint Gonzales, is now online; and I missed it before, but apparently Maxwell Gontarek had some work online as part of the online journal for Pamenar Press.

some author activity: Irwin, Schmaltz, mclennan, Earl, Barwin, Graham, Abel + Dueck,

Marilyn Irwin now has a blog, which you should (obviously) read, for poems, upcoming readings, publications and anything else she might be up to; Eric Schmaltz reads at UNDEFINED in Toronto with Liz Worth, Lindsay Cahill, Phil Miletic, Juli Bisson Whittom, Andrew James Paterson and POEM (Worth and Jacqueline Valencia) at Playful Grounds, 605 College Street, Toronto on Wednesday, April 23 at 6pm; rob mclennan participates in "My writing process--blog tour," over on his blog, as do tagged authors Amanda Earl and Gary Barwin; and, in case you missed it, Lea Graham was guest blogger over at The Best American Poetry blog for the week of March 11-15, and posted such things as this and this and this and this and this; Lemonhound recently posted Jordan Abel and Renée Saklikar in Conversation: Accumulation as a Political Act; and Nathan Dueck answers the Canadian Poetries questionnaire.

Lea Graham is this week's Guest Author on The Best American Poetry blog!

above/ground press author and amazing human being Lea Graham (author of the 2006 chapbook Calendar Girl and co-author of the 2011 chapbook Metric) is the "guest author" on The Best American Poetry blog this week. Congratulations, Lea! Does this mean we might even see a new book and/or chapbook out of her at some point, soon?

As they write on their site:

Lea Graham Guest Author March 11-15

This week we welcome Lea Graham as our guest author. Lea is the author of the poetry book, Hough & Helix & Where & Here & You, You, You (No Tell Books, 2011). Her poems, translations and reviews have been published in Notre Dame Review, Southern Humanities Review and Fifth Wednesday. She is a contributing editor for Atticus Review’s feature, “Boo’s Hollow,” which showcases poets writing on place. She is an Associate Professor of English at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, New York.

Welcome, Lea.

-- sdh