some author activity: Schapira, Hancock, Abel, McFadden + Reed,

Kate Schapira has a new essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter; Brecken Hancock responds to Open Book: Ontario's "dirty dozen" questionnaire; there's a new interview with Jordan Abel at Weird Canada; David W. McFadden writes on being diagnosed with Alzheimer's for Toronto Life; and Marthe Reed reviews Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader over at Jacket2.

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.