some author activity: Niespodziany, Beaulieu, mclennan, Boyle, Pirie + Patton,

Benjamin Niespodziany listed his favorite authors and their books that he read in 2021; Derek Beaulieu offers his list of most engaging books of 2021; and rob mclennan offers his best of list of 2021 Canadian poetry titles via dusie, as well as a new poem up at the clever blog; Frances Boyle has two new poems up at Blackbird; Pearl Pirie has some new work up at Red Alder Review; and forthcoming author Christopher Patton has new work up at where is the river.

some author activity: Frances Boyle,

above/ground press author Frances Boyle has been extremely busy lately, with new work via Floodlight, Wine Cellar Press, IceFloe Press, Ayaskala Magazine, The Ekphrastic Review, Bywords.ca, Red Alder Review, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, Mineral Lit Mag, Moira, Moimbo Publishing, Thimble Lit Mag and humana obscura. We can barely keep up!

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.