some author activity: Earl, Levin, Armantrout + Christie,

Amanda Earl has a new poem up at The Steel Chisel; A.J. Levin has a new essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Rae Armantrout has a new poem up at The Nation; and Jason Christie has a new poem posted at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month.

some author activity: Earl, Moritz, Smith + Gunnars,

Amanda Earl has a new poem up at The Steel Chisel; Rachel Moritz is interviewed over at Speaking of Marvels; Pete Smith is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Kristjana Gunnars is interviewed as part of a series of interview with former writers-in-residence at the University of Alberta.

some author activity: beaulieu, McCann, Maguire + Armantrout,

derek beaulieu offers his list of "Most Engaging Books of 2015"; Marcus McCann has a new poem up at The Steel Chisel; Shannon Maguire is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and "A Quick Interview With Rae Armantrout" by Corey Zeller now lives online at The Ampersand Review.

some author activity: Anstee, Barkman, Christie + Robinson,

Cameron Anstee has two new poems in the new issue of The Steel Chisel; Carla Barkman (the former Carla Milo) has a new poem now up on the Vallum magazine website; Jason Christie describes his writing space on Amish Trivedi's Where Do You Write, My Lovely?; and Elizabeth Robinson has a new collaboration with Sasha Steensen now up at Likestarlings.

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: Folsom, hastain, MillAr, McCann, Barwin + Sand,

Eric Folsom provides a new essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; j/j hastain is interviewed by Amanda Earl over at DevilHousePress; over at his blog, Jay MillAr posts a short essay on Toronto small press legend Crad Kilodney; we seem to have missed this new poem by Marcus McCann in the September 2013 issue of The Steel Chisel; Gary Barwin interviews Geof Huth over at Jacket2; and Kaia Sand has some new work and accompanying statement over at Everyday Genius.

some author activity: Ladouceur, mclennan, Poe, Robertson + beaulieu

Ben Ladouceur and rob mclennan both have new poems up in April's issue of The Steel Chisel, and there's a profile on rob mclennan up at Apartment613; Deborah Poe reads a poem by Aimé Césaire; Lisa Robertson has another new post up at Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation; and derek beaulieu's concrete and visual poetry is discussed at Exepose, the University of Exeter's Independent Student Newspaper.

Some author activity: Hawkins, Turnbull, Sand, Anstee, MacLeod, Pirie, Earl + Young,

rob mclennan has written a profile of Ottawa's most dangerous poet, William Hawkins, performing tomorrow as part of the inaugural Verse Ottawa Hall of Honour; Chris Turnbull has some new work up at ditch; Kaia Sand was recently selected for the inaugural City of Portland Archives and Record Center Artist in Residence Program; Cameron Anstee, Kathryn MacLeod and Pearl Pirie all have new work in the sixth issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics; Cameron Anstee and Amanda Earl each have new work up in the March issue of The Steel Chisel; and Deanna Young reads at the Sunnyside Branch of the Ottawa Public Library for Poetry Month at 2pm, Saturday, April 20, 2013 with Heather Cadsby and Mary Ellen Csamer.