some author activity: Earl, Barwin, Greenstreet, Kaminski + Poe,

Amanda Earl has a new poem featured online at Matrix magazine, and further work featured at Queen Mob's Teahouse; Gary Barwin is interviewed over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Kate Greenstreet interviews Megan Kaminski over at The Conversant; and Deborah Poe is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: Robertson, Smith, hastain, Reed + Armantrout,

Lisa Roberton's "Essay on Origins" is included in the new issue of The Rusty Toque; Jessica Smith has a new poem up at Open Letters Monthly; j/j hastain has new work in issue #8 of summer stock; Megan Burns interviews Marthe Reed over at The Conversant; and Rae Armantrout has four new poems up at Jacket2.

some author activity: Reed, mclennan, Earl, Anstee, Young + Stewart,

Marthe Reed has a new poem up as part of "The Trash Issue" of The Volta, and rob mclennan's small press book fair interview, along with interviews with Amanda Earl, Cameron Anstee and Kimberly Dawkins, was posted as part of a selection of interviews in The Volta's sister publication, The Conversant (the original list of twenty-nine interviews from the fall 2013 ottawa small press book fair is posted here); Amanda Earl's AngelHousePress introduces a new imprint for transgressive work, DevilHousePress; Deanna Young reads at Ottawa's Pressed Cafe's Railroad Reading Series (750 Gladstone Avenue) at 7pm, January 16, alongside Dean Steadman, Susan McMaster, Lesley Strutt and Bruce Taylor; and Fenn Stewart reads with Mat Laporte at Toronto's HIJ Reading Series (260 Ryding Avenue), January 19, 4-7pm.

some author activity: Poe, Barwin, Brockwell, Martin, mclennan, Reed + Wilkinson,

Deborah Poe has some new work in "the special issue" of eccolinguistics; Gary Barwin's essay, "Author Notes from the Vaults: The Present 'House' of Story," is now online at The Town Crier, as is a similar essay by Stephen Brockwell, and a further by rob mclennan; Camille Martin writes about the loss of a tree; rob mclennan and Marthe Reed both have new poems up at Tarpaulin Sky; rob has another new poem up at Cordite Poetry Review; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson interviews Julie Doxsee over at The Conversant.