some author activity: Donato, Robinson, Ross, mclennan, Inniss + Boyle,

Joseph Donato has a poem in the "Tuesday poem" series; Ben Robinson answers the '12 or 20 questions' interview; Stuart Ross has new poems in the new issue of Allium: A Journal of Poetry & Prose, as does rob mclennan, who also has a piece up at Still Point; Scott Inniss had some work up at Still Point a while back, also; and Frances Boyle has a poem online at The New Quarterly,

some author activity: Levy, Webb, Robinson, Banks, Naughton + Smith,

forthcoming author John Levy is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Lindsey Webb is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series; Elizabeth Robinson has new work up at Conjunctions; Chris Banks has a new essay up at The Woodlot; Katie Naughton has new work up at Still Point; and Mahaila Smith is interviewed via Chaudiere Books.

some author activity: Brenner, Baus, mclennan, Kaminski + Burnham,

Summer Brenner has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series; some of Eric Baus' poems were translated into Czech; rob mclennan is featured via Instagram on Stephanie Austin's mugshot writers; Megan Kaminski features at Etcetera; and Clint Burnham is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series.

some author activity: Reid, Logan, Higdon, Houbolt + Munson,

Monty Reid is interviewed over at Touch the Donkey; Nate Logan has new work up at Otoliths, as well as Leavings; Hailey Higdon wrote an article on mothering for Nashville Scene; forthcoming author Kyla Houbolt has a prose poem up at Idle Ink; and Jed Munson answers the '12 and 20 questions.'

some author activity: Mellis, O'Reilly, Melançon + Dennis,

forthcoming author Miranda Mellis has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series via the dusie blog; Nathanael O'Reilly has new work up at axon; Jérôme Melançon has work featured in the Spotlight Series; and Amy Dennis is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series

some author activity: Gunnars, Mohammadi, Clayton, Hancock + O'Reilly,

[Khashayar Mohammadi, Amish Trivedi + rob mclennan during the recent VERSeFest/Factory Lecture Series event; photo by Pearl Pirie] Kristjana Gunnars participates in Turnstone Press' 2 Poem Tuesday alongside D.A. Lockhart; Khashayar Mohammadi participates in the "12 or 20 questions" interview series; Conyer Clayton has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; VERSeFest 2021 poet-in-residence Brecken Hancock does an interview for Rogers Ottawa; and Nathanael O'Reilly has a new poem in the latest issue of Backstory.

some author activity: Joseph, mclennan, Moore, MacEachern + Dowling,

Alexander Joseph was interviewed for Boulder Jewish News; rob mclennan has posted a new poem to his blog, and another at Watch Your Head, and a further at Train : a poetry journal; Nathan Alexander Moore is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Jessi MacEachern participates in the "12 or 20 questions" interview series; and Sarah Dowling is co-editing (with Jane Malcolm) a special issue of Amodern, tentatively titled "Body and/as Procedure," and seeks critical papers!

some author activity: O'Reilly, Boyle, mclennan, Williams, eckhoff, Pirie + fitzpatrick

Nathanael O'Reilly responds to the '12 or 20 questions' interview; Frances Boyle has new work up at long con magazine and Sheila-Na-Gig, a YouTube reading of three poems included in Dreich, as well as work in the second issue of n-o-b-o-d-y alongside rob mclennan, Julia Williams, kevin mcpherson echkoff, Pearl Pirie, ryan fitzpatrick and multiple others.

some author activity: Cortese, mclennan, Vaughan, Cooley, Saklikar + Turnbull

Franco Cortese answers the "12 or 20 questions"; rob mclennan recently posted a poem for the late RM Vaughan; Dennis Cooley has a poem in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Renée Sarojini Saklikar has helped launch "Poetry Phone" through the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, providing "Vancouver's first free poetry hotline," and featuring readings by Vancouver poets; and Chris Turnbull has some new work up at The Pi Review.

some author activity: Izsak, Sweeney, Kinaschuk, Clayton + Pirie,

Emily Izsak has a new poem on the Chaudiere Books blog for National Poetry Month, as does Heather Sweeney; Kyle Kinaschuk has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; Conyer Clayton is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and both Conyer Clayton and Pearl Pirie participate in Red Alder Review's open mic series.

some author activity: Robinson, Maloukis, Campos + Hogg,

Ben Robinson has some new work up at The /tƐmz/ Review; forthcoming author Rose Maloukis has an essay in the my (small press) writing day series; Isabel Sobral Campos is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" interview series; and Robert Hogg has three new poems (text and audio) up on the Pamenar Press website.

some author activity: Turnbull, Mavreas, Clayton, Barwin, Eleftherion + Braune,

[accidental blueberry damage to a stack of Chris Turnbull chapbooks, during one of my weekends away on the farm] Billy Mavreas and Conyer Clayton, among others, have new work in the twelfth issue of Amanda Earl's experiment-o; Gary Barwin has some poems online at Granta; Melissa Eleftherion has three new poems up at Burning House Press; and Sean Braune is interviewed in the '12 or 20 questions' series.

some author activity: Hall, Landman, mclennan, Gray + Townsend,

University of New Brunswick writer-in-residence Phil Hall is written up in in the brunswickan; Seth Landman has a poem up in the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; rob mclennan answers the "12 or 20 questions," via Vallum magazine, and has a new poem up at his clever blog; forthcoming author Evan Gray has an essay in the "my (small press) writing day" series; and Jamie Townsend has new work in the second issue of baest : a journal of queer forms & affects.

some author activity: Armantrout, Moure, Waldrop, Eleftherion + Gruber,

Rae Armantrout, Erín Moure + Rosmarie Waldrop, along with multiple others, have new work as part of the #MeToo: A Poetry Collective feature at Chicago Review; Melissa Eleftherion is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Adrienne Gruber has some new work + a statement as part of rob mclennan's "Spotlight" series over at Medium.

some author activity: Notley, Marshall, Schmaltz, hanna + Earl,

Alice Notley is interviewed in the "12 or 20 questions" series; forthcoming author Sara Renee Marshall is interviewed over at poetry mini interviews; Eric Schmaltz will be editing an anthology of concrete and visual poetry for Knife Fork Book and is seeking submissions; and natalie hanna has some new work up at Canthius, as does Amanda Earl.

Some author interviews: McKinnon, Mangold, Landman, Lindner, McNair, Barbour + Butler,

A wide array of author interviews! The full interview rob mclennan conducted with Barry McKinnon for filling Station magazine is now online; Sarah Mangold is interviewed over at seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics; Seth Landman, Erik Lindner and Christine McNair participate in the "12 or 20 questions" series; and Douglas Barbour and Jenna Butler have a conversation over at Canadian Poetries.

some author activity: Amanda Earl, rob mclennan + Emily Carr,

A "12 or 20 questions" interview with poet Emily Carr, and rob mclennan and Amanda Earl read as part of the launch of Air Out/In Air (ed. Pearl Pirie) at Collected Works Bookstore, Ottawa, Thursday, January 19.