some author activity: Armantrout, Niespodziany, O'Reilly, Norris + Boyle,

Rae Armantrout has a new poem in The Nation; forthcoming author Benjamin Niespodziany has some new work up at Back Patio Press; Nathanael O'Reilly participated in a live poetry reading at the largest stone circle in Ireland last Saturday, alongside Ciaran O'Driscoll, Linda Louise Galvin, Eoin Devereux, Emer Fallon, Daniel Wade, Matt Mooney and Barbara Byar, the entirety of which was created, edited, filmed and posted to YouTube by Kevin Bateman; Ken Norris has an essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and Frances Boyle has new work in Cauldron Anthology #13, the June 2021 issue of Bywords.ca, and The Minola Review.

some author activity: Boyle, O'Reilly, Dennis, Pirie, Trivedi + Solomon,

Frances Boyle has been on fire (again) lately, with new work up at MookyChick, The Wild Word and Vox Viola; Nathanael O'Reilly has a new piece as part of the "Talking Poetics" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter ; Pearl Pirie has posted a short piece on Michael Dennis; Amish Trivedi is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; and Misha Solomon has started a newsletter of weekly poems, some gay poems, which you should totally sign up for.

some author activity: Earl, Cochrane, Maloukis + Carpenter,

Amanda Earl is the October winner of the "Arc Award of Awesomeness" from Arc Poetry Magazine; Mark Cochrane has a new poem up at Canadian Literature; Rose Maloukis has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and J.R. Carpenter posts part of an audio collaboration with Darren Hagen.

some author activity: Clayton, Hunter, Kaplan, Boyle + mclennan,

Conyer Clayton has new work in Mineral Lit Mag; Carrie Hunter has new work up at The Pi Review; forthcoming above/ground press author Genevieve Kaplan has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Frances Boyle has some new work up at Mineral Lit; and rob mclennan has new work up at The Pi Review.

some author activity: Paige, Morton, Beaulieu, Ross, Dennis + Earl,

Abby Paige participates in the "Six Questions" interview series over at Chaudiere Books; Colin Morton responds to same; Derek Beaulieu has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Stuart Ross interviews Michael Dennis; and Amanda Earl has a photo essay at Watch Your Head.

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: Boyle, Clayton, Tracy + Gray,

Frances Boyle has three poems up at Cypress: A Poetry Journal; Conyer Clayton has an essay in the Talking Poetics series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Dale Tracy is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; and Marty Cain mentions Evan Gray's above/ground press title Body Birth (2019) as part of a blog post for Action Books (a title which is totally still available, by the way).

some author activity: Perry, Pirie, Ross, La Rocque, mclennan, Burdick, Dennis + Hogg,

Paul Perry has a new essay in the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Pearl Pirie writes on her writing space for The New Quarterly; Jenya Stashkov asked Stuart Ross to gather poems by fifteen Canadian poets to translate those poems into Russian, and to create a drawing inspired by them, which are now online, including translated poems by Lance La Rocque, rob mclennan, Alice Burdick, Michael Dennis, Robert Hogg and Ross himself; Robert Hogg has two further poems posted as part of the "Robert Kroetsch 2020" up at The Typescript; and Lance La Rocque is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews.

some author activity: Clayton, mclennan, Sikkema, Siklosi + Best,

safely delivered above/ground press chapbooks!

Conyer Clayton is interviewed over at The Puritan; rob mclennan has a new poem up at pioneertown.; Michael Sikkema is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Kate Siklosi has new work + a statement in the Spotlight series; Ashley-Elizabeth Best has an essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

some author activity: Pirie, Archer, Aigen, Boyle + Unsworth,

Pearl Pirie is interviewed over at talking about strawberries all of the time, as is Sacha Archer, and Razielle Aigen; Frances Boyle participates in the litter i see project; Lydia Unsworth has a new poem on the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month; and Razielle Aigen also has an essay in the "On Writing" series newly online on 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: Aigen, Eleftherion, Kasimor + Earl,

Razielle Aigen has some new work up in Moonchild magazine; Melissa Eleftherion has some new work up on Headline Poetry and Press; Mary Kasimor has an essay in the Talking Poetics series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; and Amanda Earl responds to the "Six Questions" interview via Chaudiere Books.

some author activity: Clayton, hanna, Unsworth, Claxton + Johnson,

Conyer Clayton recommends five books (including natalie hanna's above/ground press debut) as part of the TPQ5 over at The Poetry Question; Lydia Unsworth has a new essay in the Talking Poetics series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; a portrait of 2020 Governor General's Arts Award-winner Dana Claxton is now online; and Chris Johnson is interviewed in the Six Questions series at the Chaudiere Books blog.

some author activity: Kearney, Earl, Spinosa, Robinson + mclennan,

forthcoming author Rachel Kearney has a new essay in the "On Writing" series, via the ottawa poetry newsletter; Amanda Earl is interviewed at Train : a poetry journal; Dani Spinosa has a new essay celebrating 40-plus years of Stuart Ross' Proper Tales Press; Ben Robinson is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; and rob mclennan's 'writing is hard' interview from 2016 is back online.

some author activity: Tracy, Kronovet, Banu, Beaulieu + Notley,

Dale Tracy has an essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Jennifer Kronovet has a new poem in The New York Times; Simina Banu has new work and a statement up in the Spotlight series; Derek Beaulieu has a new visual poem up at Train : a poetry journal; and Alice Notley has a new poem in the "Tuesday poem" series via the dusie blog.

some author activity: Perry, Pirie, Gurton-Wachter + Archer,

Paul Perry has a new poem in the "Tuesday poem" series; Pearl Pirie has an essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Anna Gurton-Wachter participates in the "12 or 20 questions" interview series, and writes on one of her poems via The Poetry Society of America; and Sacha Archer is interviewed over at Train : a poetry journal.

some author activity: McElroy, Nilson, Cortese + Townsend,

Gil McElroy has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Geoffrey Nilson reviews Sonnet L'Abbé's Sonnet's Shakespeare over at the Hamilton Review of Books; Franco Cortese is interviewed at Touch the Donkey; and Jamie Townsend is interviewed on Steve Abbott over at FULL STOP.

some author activity: Hogg, Earl, Barwin, Clayton + Cortese,

Robert Hogg has some new poems up at Empty Mirror; Amanda Earl has a new essay in the "Talking Poetics" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Gary Barwin writes on the "&" for Macleans magazine; Conyer Clayton has two poems up at The /tƐmz/ Review here and here; and Franco Cortese has new work up in the Tuesday poem series over at the dusie blog.

some author activity: Unsworth, Clayton, Graham + Higdon,

forthcoming author Lydia Unsworth has an essay in the "On Writing" series at the ottawa poetry newsletter; forthcoming author Conyer Clayton is featured in rob mclennan's Spotlight series via Medium; Lea Graham has a new poem up at typishly; and Hailey Higdon is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey.

some author activity: Notley, Bowering, Dennis, Robinson + McElroy,

Gil McElroy, sporting his brand new above/ground press t-shirt

Alice Notley's lecture on Allen Ginsberg, presented as the keynote at the Allen Ginsberg Symposium this past May at the St. Mark's Poetry Project in New York City, is now online; George Bowering has a new essay in the "On Writing" series, over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Michael Dennis is being interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; and Elizabeth Robinson has a new craft essay up at Brevity.