some author activity: McKinnon, Barwin, mclennan, Adams, Dennis + Robertson,

Barry McKinnon was recently interviewed by Paul E Nelson; Gary Barwin participates in Amanda Earl's "One Thing", as does rob mclennan; Carrie Olivia Adams is interviewed over at Michigan Quarterly Review; Michael Dennis has a new poem up at Stuart Ross' The Week Shall Inherit The Verse; and Lisa Robertson's "Notes on Form and Belief" is up at The Volta.

Evening Will Come: beaulieu, Earl, Hajnoczky, McElroy, Simpson, timewell + mclennan,

A special "Canadian Feature," posted as the May issue of Evening Will Come, a fragment of The Volta, is now online, featuring poetic statements by a slew of above/ground press authors (and some not-yet-authors), including: derek beaulieu, Amanda Earl, Helen Hajnoczky, Peter Jaeger, Gil McElroy, Erín Moure, Nikki Reimer, Natalie Simpson and lary timewell, as well as a brief introduction by guest-editor rob mclennan.

some author activity: Martin, Pirie, beaulieu, Smith, Browning + Baus,

Camille Martin has curated a small "Robert Zend Sampler" of visual poetry over at Coldfront magazine; Pearl Pirie is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; derek beaulieu's "Game of Life: A User's Manual" is now online at NewPoetry; Jessica Smith has new work up in The Volta, guest-edited by Sommer Browning; and Eric Baus has some new poems up in Wag's Revue.

some author activity: Landman, mclennan, Barwin, Kaminski, Hajnoczky + Gordon,

Seth Landman has some new work up in Coconut #19; rob mclennan's "Reading Recommendations" were posted recently by Susan M. Toy; Gary Barwin has some new work on an international blog of concrete and visual poetry; forthcoming above/ground press author Megan Kaminski had some collaborative pieces (composed with Bonnie Roy) in a recent issue of ILK; Noah Eli Gordon "On Scaffolding, Surrounding Auras, Authenticity, and Artfulness" at The Volta; and Helen Hajnoczky's 2011 chapbook "Tight-Lacing," "A rare example of contemporary feminist concrete poetry," appears for free pdf download at ubu web: visual poetry.

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: Armantrout, Smith, Barwin, Paige, beaulieu + McCann,

Rae Armantrout lists her 'Best Books of 2013" over at The Volta; Jessica Smith's chapbook-length The Fortune-Teller appears in The Chapbook: Volume 2; Gary Barwin recently posted a poem for Toronto Mayor Rob Ford; Abby Paige has a new poem featured in the new issue of Room magazine (including online); Calgary Herald does an interesting write-up on derek beaulieu; and Marcus McCann has a poem reprinted on the véhicule press blog as part of their Sunday poem feature, selected by Carmine Starnino.

The Volta, September 2013: Women of Visual Poetry issue, ed. Jessica Smith

above/ground press author Jessica Smith has edited the September 2013 issue of the online journal The Volta as the "Women of Visual Poetry" issue, including the work of a ton of writers (including a number of above/ground press authors), such as Rosaire Appel, Petra Backonja, C. Mehrl Bennett, Maria Damon, Amanda Earl, Judith Copithorne, Jessica Smith, lindsay cahill, Susana Gardner, Sharon Harris, K. Lorraine Graham, Pearl Pirie, Deborah Poe, Michèle Provost, a rawlings, Sandra Stephenson, Eileen Tabios and Chris Turnbull.

some author activity: Ackerson-Kiely, Poe, Smith, Earl, Wilkinson

Paige Ackerson-Kiely is on the "23 People Who Will Make You Care About Poetry in 2013" list over at Flavorwire (and keep an eye out for her next Ottawa reading: October 21 at The Carleton Tavern as part of The Factory Reading Series, alongside Kate Greenstreet and D.J. Dolack); Deborah Poe and Jessica Smith each have short essays as part of the "Women Looking at Vispo" section of The Volta, guest-edited by Nico Vassilakis; Amanda Earl is interviewed for an article on Bywords.ca for Jam Jar Words; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson has two short films posted up at Omniverse, the blog of Omnidawn.

some author activity: Martin, Roberton, McCann, Smith, beaulieu + Wilkinson,

Camille Martin has some new work up at otoliths; Lisa Robertson writes on Dionne Brand over on Lemonhound; Marcus McCann discusses one of his recent poems over at the Town Crier; Jessica Smith has some new work up at Word for Word: Gary Barwin discusses derek beaulieu's piece, "Prose of the Trans-Canada," over at Jacket2; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson discusses The Volta over at the Poetry Society of America.

Some author activity: Stewart, Robertson, Markotic + Wilkinson; and McElroy, McNair + Markotic at VERSeFest!

Fenn Stewart, Lisa Robertson and Nicole Markotic read with Susan Holbrook in Toronto on Friday, March 8, 2013, hosted by the Toronto New School of Writing; and Joshua Marie Wilkinson has a new essay, "On Poetry & Accessibility," over at The Volta, and a review-essay over at West Branch Wired. And don't forget Gil McElroy, Christine McNair and Nicole Markotic (and many others) at this year's VERSeFest!