some author activity: McFadden, Earl, Christie, Massey, Robertson + Armantrout,

Rusty Priske posted a lovely response to David W. McFadden's recent Ottawa appearance at VERSeFest (which was incredible, by the way); Amanda Earl has some visual work published over in the UK; Jason Christie has some new work up in the fourth issue of N/A; Karen Massey has an erasure poem posted online at Silver Birch Press; Lisa Robertson interviews Etel Adnan for BOMB Magazine; and there is an interview with Rae Armantrout over at the Writeliving's blog.

some author activity: Cochrane, Armantrout, mclennan, Higdon, Wilkinson, Butler, Betts, Cooley + Barbour,

[photo of Mark Cochrane reading Cat. on the poetry bus at Vancouver's WORD festival on September 29, 2013; photo credit: Kevin Spenst] Rae Armantrout and rob mclennan both have new work in the second issue of N/A; Hailey Higdon has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; there's a new interview with Joshua Marie Wilkinson over at Under A Warm Green Linden, Christopher Nelson's poetry blog; Jenna Butler guest-edits a Canadian poetry section in the October 2013 issue of Connotation Press online, including new writing by rob mclennan, Gregory Betts, Dennis Cooley, Douglas Barbour and plenty of others.

some author activity: Smith, Blouin, McElroy, mclennan, beaulieu + Poe,

Jessica Smith has some poems up in the first issue of N/A; co-author Michael Blouin's "On process" essay is the fourth piece in the ongoing "On writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Gil McElroy and rob mclennan have new essays in the seventh issue of seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics; derek beaulieu gets some love from Eric Schmaltz over at Lemonhhound; and Deborah Poe's reading at Ivy Writers Paris, May, 2013 has been posted (with a report) up at YouTube.