some author activity: Trivedi, Folsom, Hofmann, Boyle + Solomon,

Amish Trivedi writes on Mark Novak's Social Poetics for The Iowa Review blog; Eric Folsom has a new poem up at the Kingston Public Library website; part two of a manifesto by forthcoming author Ava Hofmann is now online at the Action Books blog; Frances Boyle has a new poem up at Artis Natura; and Misha Solomon has an essay in the "Talking Poetics" series.

some author activity: Ross, Eleftherion, Aigen, Campanello,

Stuart Ross posted a nice piece over at his blog (including his acceptance speech) on winning this year's Harbourfront Prize; Melissa Eleftherion has new work and a statement up as part of the Spotlight series; forthcoming author Razielle Aigen has some new work up at Train : a poetry journal; and Kimberly Campanello and Léonce Lupette have a collaboration in the Tuesday poem series over at the dusie blog.

some author activity: beaulieu, Brockwell, Baker + Saklikar,

derek beaulieu has a new poem posted at h&; Stephen Brockwell offers poetry workshops in September as part of the Ottawa Public Library; Jennifer Baker has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series at the dusie blog; and Renée Sarojini Saklikar posts notes "for a writer starting out" over at her blog.

Anita Dolman on above/ground press;

Ottawa poet (and frequent above/ground press contributor) Anita Dolman was good enough to post a short write-up on above/ground press, the ongoing backlist/rarities lists I've been posting, and her relationship with the press on her blog today. Thanks much! You can see her original post here.

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: Irwin, Schmaltz, mclennan, Earl, Barwin, Graham, Abel + Dueck,

Marilyn Irwin now has a blog, which you should (obviously) read, for poems, upcoming readings, publications and anything else she might be up to; Eric Schmaltz reads at UNDEFINED in Toronto with Liz Worth, Lindsay Cahill, Phil Miletic, Juli Bisson Whittom, Andrew James Paterson and POEM (Worth and Jacqueline Valencia) at Playful Grounds, 605 College Street, Toronto on Wednesday, April 23 at 6pm; rob mclennan participates in "My writing process--blog tour," over on his blog, as do tagged authors Amanda Earl and Gary Barwin; and, in case you missed it, Lea Graham was guest blogger over at The Best American Poetry blog for the week of March 11-15, and posted such things as this and this and this and this and this; Lemonhound recently posted Jordan Abel and Renée Saklikar in Conversation: Accumulation as a Political Act; and Nathan Dueck answers the Canadian Poetries questionnaire.

some author activity: Thomas, Martin, beaulieu, Reid, Young + mclennan

[photo of how we would have preferred to move into the new house] Hugh Thomas has a new poem posted as part of the dusie "Tuesday Poem" series; Camille Martin reviews The Whole Island: Six Decades of Cuban Poetry (University of California Press, 2009), edited by Mark Weiss, over at her blog, and is interviewed by Katie Rosenthal over at Stated Magazine; derek beaulieu gives "advice to aspiring poets" through a q+a with Gauntlet; Monty Reid, Deanna Young and rob mclennan read at the Ottawa Public Library on October 7 with David Groulx, Rhonda Douglas and Chris Jennings, and mclennan also conducts a poetry workshop (pre-registration required) on October 17; and rob mclennan has quite the author page (as do others, I'm sure) over at filling Station magazine.

some author activity: eckhoff, MacLeod, Christie, MillAr + McNair

kevin mcpherson eckhoff keeps posting over at Goodreads: Kathryn MacLeod has a new poem as part of the Tuesday poem series on the dusie blog; Jason Christie takes part in an impromptu residency in Vernon, British Columbia at the Mackie Lake House; Jay MillAr is interviewed over at The Toronto Quarterly; and Christine McNair answers the Poets in Profile questions over at Open Book: Ontario.

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.