some author activity: mclennan, Anstee, Simpson, Earl + Christie,

rob mclennan participates in the "Blog Hop" self-interview; Cameron Anstee and Rachael Simpson, along with Jeff Blackman, Justin Million and jesslyn delia smith, are interviewed over at Open Book: Ontario on their "An Accords of Poets" tour; Amanda Earl responds to Susan M. Toy's book-meme questions over at Reading Recommendations; and Jason Christie has an essay in the "On Writing" series over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

some author activity: Landman, mclennan, Barwin, Kaminski, Hajnoczky + Gordon,

Seth Landman has some new work up in Coconut #19; rob mclennan's "Reading Recommendations" were posted recently by Susan M. Toy; Gary Barwin has some new work on an international blog of concrete and visual poetry; forthcoming above/ground press author Megan Kaminski had some collaborative pieces (composed with Bonnie Roy) in a recent issue of ILK; Noah Eli Gordon "On Scaffolding, Surrounding Auras, Authenticity, and Artfulness" at The Volta; and Helen Hajnoczky's 2011 chapbook "Tight-Lacing," "A rare example of contemporary feminist concrete poetry," appears for free pdf download at ubu web: visual poetry.