Avant-Canada: On the Canadian avant-garde, eds. Betts + Price, Jacket2

above/ground press authors Gregory Betts and Katie L. Price have co-edited "Avant-Canada: On the Canadian avant-garde" over at Jacket2, featuring a series of essays that came out of the Avant Canada: Artists, Prophets, Revolutionaries conference that was held at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, November 4–6, 2014.

Check out here to see their introduction, and links to the featured essays. The list of contributors to the feature includes essays by past and present above/ground press authors Stephen Collis, Alex Porco, Lori Emerson and Erín Moure, as well as Sarah Dowling, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Kaie Kellough, Tyrus Miller, Heather Milne and Vanessa Place, with critical pieces on Jordan Abel, Christian Bök, Ron Silliman, Erin Wunker, Michael Nardone, Lillian Allan, Steve McCaffery, d'bi.young, Lee Maracle, Jeff Derksen, Louis Cabri and Rachel Zolf.

some author activity: Schmaltz, Armantrout + beaulieu,

Eric Schmaltz interviews Kaie Kellough over at Queen Mob's Teahouse; a new interview with Rae Armantrout, conducted by Katy Lederer for Bennington Review; and derek beaulieu has a new poem up at h&.

some author activity: Maguire, beaulieu, Schmaltz + Armantrout,

Shannon Maguire is interviewed over at the BookThug website; derek beaulieu has new work up at NewPoetry; Eric Schmaltz writes on kaie kellough as part of Brick Books' Celebration of Canadian Poetry; and Matthew Gagnon writes on Rae Armantrout over at Jacket2.