some author activity: Waldrop, Hall, Barwin, eckhoff, Wilkinson + mclennan,

Rosmarie Waldrop has a new poem as part of the dusie Tuesday poem series; Phil Hall is interviewed over at The Toronto Quarterly; Gary Barwin interviews kevin mcpherson eckhoff on his "Their Biography" project over at Jacket2; Joshua Marie Wilkinson participates in Green Mountains Review's "Why Write?" series with the essay "Or: A Hollow Little Nimbus of Grime: How I Made Certain of My Poems"; and rob mclennan has two new poems, as well as an interview, in the second issue of The Mackinac.

some author activity: Smith, Anstee, Butler, Ferguson, Abel + Earl,

Jessica Smith has some new poems up at Tarpaulin Sky; Cameron Anstee has a new poem up as part of the dusie "Tuesday poem" series; Jenna Butler has won the CV2 2-Day Poem Contest for her piece "Ella & Marilyn at the Mocambo"; Jesse Patrick Ferguson has two new poems over at The Mackinac; Jordan Abel gets an "author spotlight" over at Jessica Kluthe's blog; and, in case you didn't see it, Amanda Earl wrote a pre-reading post in anticipation of tonight's reading with Jessica Smith and Marilyn Irwin as part of The Factory Reading Series.