some author activity: Fuhr, Niespodziany + mclennan,

Laurie Anne Fuhr is interviewed in the "Six Questions" series via the Chaudiere Books blog; Benjamin Niespodziany has new work up at Peach mag, and at Litro, and is interviewed over at Gone Lawn; rob mclennan has a new poem up at Train: a poetry journal, and is interviewed by Lori Hettler in the 40 bu 10 questions interview series.

some author activity: mclennan, Robertson, Rogal, Maloukis + Niespodziany,

rob mclennan takes the Galaxy Brain Questionnaire over at Michael Murray's Galaxy Brain; Lisa Robertson writes on the colour rose for Cabinet magazine; Stan Rogal has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Rose Maloukis has a poem in the "Tuesday poem" series via the dusie blog; and Benjamin Niespodziany has a one-sentence story over at MonkeyBicycle.

some author activity: Reid, Hunter, mclennan, Nećakov + Brown,

Monty Reid has some new work posted online at IceFloe Press, and a poem-response to the #OttawaOccupation over at Train: a poetry journal; Carrie Hunter is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; rob mclennan's poem-response to the #OttawaOccupation is now up at his blog; Lillian Nećakov is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Simon Brown is interviewed via poetry mini interviews.

some author activity: Barwin, Eleftherion, Barbour, Notley + Earl,

Gary Barwin's "Letraset Canon," "A canon for 3 tenor saxophones," is now up at YouTube; Melissa Eleftherion has a poem in the new issue of Lammergeier; The Book Publishers Association of Alberta has announced that they have renamed their "Speculative Fiction Book of the Year" to the "Douglas Barbour Award for Speculative Fiction"; abstracts are sought for a roundtable on the work of Alice Notley; and Amanda Earl has new visual work posted at Train : a poetry journal.

some author activity: Ross, Reid, Tate, Archer, Gunnars, Jirgens, Norris + Young,

Stuart Ross is a finalist for the 4th James Tate International Poetry Prize, for his full-length manuscript, "Cringe System"; Monty Reid is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Bronwen Tate now has a newsletter you can sign up for; Sacha Archer has posted "an improvisation by Sacha Archer played on a broken stand-up piano that was found in a large dumpster in the downtown of Peterborough, Ontario c. 2007" via YouTube; and above/ground press authors Ken Norris, Karl Jirgens, Geoffrey Young and Kristjana Gunnars, among others, have new work in the latest issue of mouse eggs.

some author activity, dueck, Dowling, Higdon, Barwin + Reid,

nathan dueck has two new poems and a statement up as part of the Spotlight series; Sarah Dowling is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Hailey Higdon has a new poem in Typo; Gary Barwin has an essay on the CBC website on surviving lockdown; and Monty Reid has some new work up at Train : a poetry journal.

some author activity: Graham, Stuart, Konchan, Simpson, Siklosi, Turner + Rogal,

Lea Graham has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog as part of National Poetry Month, as does Kate Siklosi (a collaboration with psw) and Cecilia Stuart and even Virginia Konchan; Natalie Simpson has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Michael Turner is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and Stan Rogal has new poems up at where is the river.

some author activity: O'Reilly, fitzpatrick, eckhoff, Johnson + Novak,

Nathanael O'Reilly has some new work posted up at Literati, Melbourne Culture Corner #6 and The Elevation Review; ryan fitzpatrick has some new work plus statement posted as part of the Spotlight series; kevin mcpherson eckhoff has a new poem posted in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; Chris Johnson is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; and forthcoming author JoAnna Novak is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author acitivity: Clayton, Dolman, Earl, Baker + Polyck-O'Neill,

Conyer Clayton has some new work up at BlueHouse Journal; Anita Dolman has two new poems up at The Pi Review; Amanda Earl has some new work in Bones - a journal for the short poem; Jennifer Baker is interviewed as part of the "Six Questions" series via Chaudiere Books; Julia Polyck-O'Neill has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal.

some author activity: Coulton, fitzpatrick, Adams + mclennan,

Valerie Coulton has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; ryan fitzpatrick has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Carrie Olivia Adams is included in rob mclennan's SPOTLIGHT series; and rob mclennan has three poems up at where is the river.

some above/ground press author activity: Maloukis, Barwin, Mohammadi + Clayton,

forthcoming author Rose Maloukis has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal, as well as an interview; both Gary Barwin (with Michael Orr) and Khashayar Mohammadi (with Mehraz Karami) have new collaborations up at Long Con Magazine; and Conyer Clayton is interviewed by book blogger Ivana over at her blog.

some author activity: Atkins, Burdick, Boyle + Ross,

Tim Atkins has some new work up at The Abandoned Playground; Alice Burdick has some new poems up at The Brooklyn Rail; Frances Boyle has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; and Stuart Ross has posted an essay on death on his blog.

some author activity: Aigen, Burdick, Clayton, Barwin + Cooley,

Razielle Aigen is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Alice Burdick has a new poem up at The Miramichi Reader; Conyer Clayton has a poem reprinted up at Concrete&River, and has new work up at Long Con magazine; Gary Barwin has an essay on the CBC website on living through the pandemic; and there are new poems online by Dennis Cooley!

some author activity: hanna, Thomas, Trivedi, Maguire, Barton, Aigen, Spinosa + Weaver,

natalie hanna has a new poem on the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month, as do Hugh Thomas, Amish Trivedi and Shannon Maguire; John Barton is interviewed for the Chaudiere Books blog in the "Six Questions" series; Razielle Aigen is interviewed at Train : a poetry journal; and Dani Spinosa writes on Andy Weaver for Open Book.

some author activity: Eleftherion, Rogal, Clayton, Polyck-O'Neill, Christie + Trivedi

Melissa Eleftherion has some poems up at the tiny; Stan Rogal is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Conyer Clayton is profiled over at Open Book; Julia Polyck-O'Neill has new work up at IceFloe Press; Jason Christie has a new poem up at at the Coach House Books blog; and Amish Trivedi has new work up at the re-launched Can We Have Our Ball Back?

some author activity: Spinosa, Barwin, Sikkema, Earl, Rogal + Siklosi,

Dani Spinosa begins her residency at Open Book with an article that references Gary Barwin and Michael Sikkema, which you should totally read; Amanda Earl has a new poem up at the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month; Stan Rogal has a new poem up at Train : a poetry journal; and Kate Siklosi has a new essay in the Talking Poetics series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

some author activity: Koss, Sikkema, Spinosa, Radmore + Baus,

Zane Koss is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Michael Sikkema has a new essay in the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Dani Spinosa is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; Claudia Coutu Radmore is interviewed via Chaudiere Books; and Eric Baus has a new essay in the Talking Poetics series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

some author activity: Izsak, Christie, Burgoyne, Sweeney, Spinosa, Beaulieu + Ball,

Emily Izsak, Jason Christie, Sarah Burgoyne and Heather Sweeney have new work in the sixteenth issue of where is the river; Dani Spinosa has a new visual poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Derek Beaulieu is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal; and Ryan Pratt has a new piece on working through the late Nelson Ball's literary archive.

some author activity: mclennan, Tate, Kaminski, Hunter, Reed, Mavreas + Desbarats,

above/ground authors rob mclennan, Bronwen Tate, Megan Kaminski and Carrie Hunter etc participate in the dusie kollektiv 9, as a tribute to the late Marthe Reed, with new chapbooks in tribute to Reed now online as free pdfs via DUSIE 22; Billy Mavreas has new visual work up at Train : a poetry journal; and Michelle Desbarats has new work in the Glebe Report.

Some author activity: Boyle, Spinosa, Barwin + mclennan,

Frances Boyle is interviewed on the Big Little Books podcast, and has a new short story up at The /tƐmz/ Review; Dani Spinosa has a new visual poem up at Train : a poetry journal; Gary Barwin posts the text of a talk he recently gave as part of his writer-in-residence gig at Wilfrid Laurier University; and rob mclennan has a new poem upon his enormously clever blog.