some author activity: Sikkema, Niespodziany, Caple + Norris,

Michael Sikkema has work in Heavy Feather Review; Benjamin Niespodziany has some new work up at SurVision; Natalee Caple was selected as this year’s recipient of the Faculty of Humanities Distinguished Service Award at Brock University; and Ken Norris has a new poem in the "Tuesday poem" series, and is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews.

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.

Rae Armantrout to judge Lemon Hound's First Poetry Contest

For Immediate Release

June 28, 2013

LEMON HOUND wants to create better opportunities for critical writing, and one sure way to support critical writing is paying for it.  In an effort to do so, Lemon Hound announces its first poetry contest. The contest is part of a fundraising endeavor and all proceeds will go towards generating financial support for its reviewers.

LEMON HOUND is offering a $750 cash prize as well as online publication for one unpublished poem written in English. Entry deadline is November 15th, 2013. To enter visit our submittable page. Only entries submitted through our online server will be considered. Entry fee is $10 per poem. Multiple submissions are welcome, but each poem must be entered individually.

We are pleased to announce that Guggenheim Fellow (2008) and Pulitzer Prize winner Rae Armantrout will be this year’s judge. Armantrout is the widely anthologized poet whose most recent publications include: Just Saying (Wesleyan UP, 2013), Money Shot (Wesleyan UP, 2011), and Versed (Wesleyan UP, 2009), for which she won the Pulitzer in 2010 as well as the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches Poetry and Poetics at the University of California, San Diego.

Armantrout is also the author of the chapbook Custom (above/ground press, 2012). A second chapbook is forthcoming in fall 2013.