some author activity: Hall, Ball, Rosenthal, Browning, Hajnoczky + Pirie,

Phil Hall was featured on The Toronto Quarterly for poetry month; Open Book: Ontario posts a "Poets in Profile" interview with Nelson Ball; Sarah Rosenthal has new work in issue 8 of Lightning'd Press; Sommer Browning has a short piece on writing up at NPM daily; Helen Hajnoczky has one of her folk-art poems up on the McGill-Queen's University Press site for Poetry Month; and Pearl Pirie has a new poem up at Moss Trill.

some author activity: Irwin, Pirie, Earl, Armantrout, Robertson + Rogal,

Marilyn Irwin responds to the "My Writing Process (a blog tour)" interview meme over at her blog; Pearl Pirie responds to Jennifer K. Dick's "WHAT IS YOUR FRAGMENT" prompt; Amanda Earl posts a new essay, "On Perfection in Poetry & the Need to Hoard One’s Poems" over at her enormously clever blog; Rae Armantrout had a poem posted at The Toronto Quarterly for National Poetry Month; Lisa Robertson has a new essay up at Winter Anthology; and Stan Rogal contributes an essay to the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

some author activity: beaulieu, McNair, Paige, Maguire, Bolster, Armantrout, Anstee + the above/ground press fetish object,

Pearl Pirie discusses derek beaulieu's work over at CWILA: Canadian Women in the Literary Arts; Christine McNair has a blog post up at the IFOA website, anticipating her participation in this year's festival; the dvd of Abby Paige's solo show, Piecework: When We Were French, is finally available; Shannon Maguire was interviewed over at The Toronto Quarterly; Stephanie Bolster has a new poem posted as part of the "Tuesday poem" series over at the dusie blog; Rae Armantrout has a new poem up at the Boston Review; and Cameron Anstee discusses the recent "above/ground press fetish object" (among other recent acquisitions) that Christine McNair and I put together for the above/ground press twentieth anniversary celebration.

some author activity: Waldrop, Hall, Barwin, eckhoff, Wilkinson + mclennan,

Rosmarie Waldrop has a new poem as part of the dusie Tuesday poem series; Phil Hall is interviewed over at The Toronto Quarterly; Gary Barwin interviews kevin mcpherson eckhoff on his "Their Biography" project over at Jacket2; Joshua Marie Wilkinson participates in Green Mountains Review's "Why Write?" series with the essay "Or: A Hollow Little Nimbus of Grime: How I Made Certain of My Poems"; and rob mclennan has two new poems, as well as an interview, in the second issue of The Mackinac.

Aaron Tucker: an essay, and an interview,

 

Aaron Tucker sure has been busy lately. He spoke of writing the poems included in his punchlines (above/ground press, 2013) in an essay for The Town Crier, and an interview in The Toronto Quarterly. Where might Tucker end up next?

some author activity: eckhoff, MacLeod, Christie, MillAr + McNair

kevin mcpherson eckhoff keeps posting over at Goodreads: Kathryn MacLeod has a new poem as part of the Tuesday poem series on the dusie blog; Jason Christie takes part in an impromptu residency in Vernon, British Columbia at the Mackie Lake House; Jay MillAr is interviewed over at The Toronto Quarterly; and Christine McNair answers the Poets in Profile questions over at Open Book: Ontario.

Some author activity: McCann, Robertson, beaulieu, Earl, Best + Maguire,

Marcus McCann has a new poem posted in the dusie "Tuesday Poem" series; Lisa Robertson has a new poem up at Jerome Rothenberg's Poems and Poetics blog; derek beaulieu had one of the last pieces in Amanda Earl's 2013 NationalPoetryMonth.ca; Amanda Earl discusses her work, including some of her above/ground press publications, over at the Oh Get A Grip! blog; Ashley-Elizabeth Best, author of a recent above/ground press "poem" broadside, was recently featured with a new poem on The Toronto Quarterly; and Shannon Maguire has a poem up on the BookThug blog as part of poetry month.

Some author activity: Mangold, Young, mclennan, McNair, Armantrout + CWILA,

More poetry month! Sarah Mangold is featured on the NPM daily blog; Deanna Young is featured in The Toronto Quarterly, and rob mclennan is featured on the League of Canadian Poets' National Poetry Month blog, each with new poems; mclennan and Christine McNair read tonight in Toronto, through Skanky Possum; Laura Sims writes on Rae Armantrout's most recent book over at Harriet; and "Poetic Visuality and Experimentation, A Brief Guide to English-Canadian Poetry" is now online as part of Canadian Literature. Also, have you seen the work that CWILA: Canadian Women in Literary Arts has been doing?

Some author activity: Mangold, Prevost, eckhoff, mclennan, Robertson + Earl,

More poetry month! Sarah Mangold and Roland Prevost are each featured with a new poem on The Toronto Quarterly; kevin mcpherson eckhoff answers the "12 or 20 questions"; rob mclennan is interviewed over at Ribbon Pig, and has a new short story over at Numero Cinq; Lisa Robertson has a new piece on Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation; and Amanda Earl is once again posting a month's worth of poems over at NationalPoetryMonth.ca, focusing this year on visual poems.

some author activity: Anstee, Betts, Bradley, Brockwell, beaulieu, Armantrout, Martin, Robertson + Ackerson-Kiely,

poet and publisher Cameron Anstee now has a blog; AngelHousePress' NationalPoetryMonth site has works by above/ground press authors Gregory Betts, Jamie Bradley, and Stephen Brockwell; and The Toronto Quarterly, also for poetry month, posted new works by derek beaulieu and Stephen Brockwell; there's a new Rae Armantrout poem on the Poetry Foundation website (did you see her recently as an answer in the New York Times crossword?); Camille Martin posts a report (with photos!) from her recent reading in Chicago with Mark Goldstein; Sina Queyras writes on Lisa Robertson for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation; and Paige Ackerson-Kiely talks of birds and survival, and even recommends...

Some author activity: Martin, mclennan, Earl, Armantrout, beaulieu + Robertson,

A new poem from Camille Martin's forthcoming trade book appears online at The Toronto Quarterly as part of Poetry Month 2012; a new poem by rob mclennan's work-in-progress, "How the alphabet was made," appears online at Amanda Earl's NationalPoetryMonth.ca (be sure to check the entire month's worth of poems here), as does a piece by Camille Martin; there's a new interview with Rae Armantrout here, and "CCWWP Pedagogy Interview # 2 with derek beaulieu" is now online as well; see also, Amanda Earl's report on beaulieu's recent AB Series appearances in Ottawa, with Pearl Pirie's photos of same; and Lisa Robertson participates in "A Evening in Conversation with Lisa Robertson" in Toronto on Monday, April 9, 2012.