Joe Blades featured in rob mclennan's Spotlight series

Chaudiere Books author Joe Blades was recently featured in rob mclennan's monthly Spotlight series, via Medium, including some new poems and a short statement. You can see such here.

Amanda Earl : BRAVE NEW WORD

Amanda Earl has five new visual poems up at BRAVE NEW WORD.

Chris Turnbull at Coldfront

Chaudiere author Chris Turnbull has some new work online at Coldfront. And of course, her continua can be ordered directly, here.

the first two of Amanda Earl's "Paradise Lost: X Regained" series now up at Drunken Boat

Chaudiere author Amanda Earl, author of Kiki (2014), is featured today over at Drunken Boat via the first two poems in her "Paradise Lost: X Regained" series.

Drunken Boat blog spotlight : Amanda Earl,

Amanda Earl has the first post in rob mclennan's new monthly "spotlight" series over at the Drunken Boat blog. The post includes a short author statement by Earl, as well as two new poems.

Amanda Earl : new poems,

Chaudiere Books author Amanda Earl has been publishing a small mound of poems lately, including four pieces from the Vispo Bible on Utsang.It‏, two visual poems up at h& here, and here, and a further short poem up on Northbound Notebooks.

AMANDA EARL IS HOOD’S VERY LUCKY (FOR US) 13

Amanda Earl has a new poem up on Lynn Crosbie's website. Well done!

Amanda Earl: poems, an essay and an interview,

Amanda Earl has been awfully busy lately, with some new visual poems posted at Otoliths, a poetics essay as part of Evening Will Come, and a new interview over at the ottawa poetry newsletter.

Amanda Earl's visual poetry

Amanda Earl has been posting new work on her visual poetry blog.

rob mclennan: an interview, an essay and four new poems

rob mclennan has four new poems and an essay up at Atticus Review, thanks to the wonderfully talented American poet and critic Lea Graham, as well as an interview for same, all part of a regular feature she curates titled "Boo's Hollow."

Amanda Earl at Unlikely Stories

Amanda Earl has a new sequence of visual poems up at Unlikely Stories.

Marcus McCann: two new poems up at Jacket2

Chaudiere author Marcus McCann has two new poems, as well as a short write-up by rob mclennan, now up at Jacket2.

Amanda Earl: Excerpts from Saint Ursula’s Commonplace Book at Jacket2

Amanda Earl has some new poems, "Excerpts from Saint Ursula’s Commonplace Book," as well as a short write-up by rob mclennan, now online at Jacket2.

Roland Prevost : two new poems, Jacket2

Roland Prevost has two new poems, as well as a short write-up by rob mclennan, now online at Jacket2.

Pearl Pirie : two new poems, Jacket2

Pearl Pirie has two new poems, as well as a short write-up by rob mclennan, now online at Jacket2.

DUSIE #17 : Roland Prevost and Monty Reid

Dusie #17, lovingly guest-edited by Marthe Reed, features new work by Chaudiere Books authors Roland Prevost and Monty Reid, as well as a host of others.

National Poetry Month 2014: derek beaulieu,

That’s not writing

“That’s not writing, that’s typewriting.”

—Truman Capote on Jack Kerouac

“That’s not writing, that’s plumbing.”

—Samuel Beckett on William S. Burroughs

That’s not writing, that’s typing.

That’s not writing, that’s someone else typing.

That’s not writing, that’s googling.

That’s not writing, that’s pasting.

That’s not writing, that’s blogging.

That’s not writing, that’s wasted, unproductive, tweaking time.

That’s not writing, that’s stupid.

That’s not writing, that’s a coloring book.

That’s not writing, that’s coming up with ideas.

That’s not writing, that’s waiting.

That’s not writing, that’s a mad scribble.

That’s not writing, that’s printing and lettering.

That’s not writing, that’s tape-recording

That’s not writing, that’s word-processing.

That’s not writing, that’s following the herd.

That’s not writing, that’s copying and pasting.

That’s not writing, that’s directing.

That’s not writing, that’s using high-“polluting” words to confuse readers.

That’s not writing, that’s aggregating, and there are already plenty of aggregators out there.

That’s not writing, that’s printing.

That’s not writing, that’s art.

That’s not writing, that’s Tourettes.

That’s not writing, that’s posing.

That’s not writing, that’s button-mashing, and anyone can do that.

That’s not writing, that’s vandalism.

That’s not writing, that’s acting.

That’s not writing, that’s blabbing.

That’s not writing, that’s hiking.

That’s not writing, that’s just a knife he’s using to eat pie with.

That’s not writing, that’s bullying.

That’s not writing, that’s dentistry.

That’s not writing, that’s just endless blathering.

That’s not writing, that’s yelling.

That’s not writing, that’s butchery!

That’s not writing, that’s a fortune cookie!

That’s not writing, that’s emoting.

That’s not writing, that’s just dressing it up after.

That’s not writing, that’s just playing around.

That’s not writing, that’s daydreaming.

That’s not writing, that’s showing off.

That’s not writing, that’s keyboarding.

That’s not writing, that’s calligraphy.

That’s not writing, that’s mindless pasting.

That’s not writing, that’s an action flick.

That’s not writing, that’s a puddle.

That’s not writing, that’s a tragedy.

That’s not writing, that’s assembly line mass production.

That’s not writing, that’s transcribing.

That’s not writing, that’s computer-generated text.

That’s not typing, that’s data entry.

derek beaulieu is the author or editor of 15 books, the most recent of which are Please, No more poetry: the poetry of derek beaulieu (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013) and kern (Les Figues press, 2014). He had work featured in the anthology Ground Rules: the best of the second decade of above/ground press (Chaudiere Books, 2013). He is the publisher of the acclaimed no press and is the visual poetry editor at UBUWeb. Beaulieu has exhibited his work across Canada, the United States and Europe and currently teaches at the Alberta College of Art + Design.

Amanda Earl to Source Poems from The Ottawa Citizen During National Poetry Month

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Local Author to Source Poems from The Ottawa Citizen During National Poetry Month

Author One of 78 Poets Set to Participate in Experimental Writing Initiative

OTTAWA — MARCH 20, 2014: Amanda Earl, a resident of Ottawa, is one of 78 poets from seven countries selected to participate in the OULIPOST project this April. Coordinated by the Found Poetry Review, the initiative unites authors in applying the constrained writing techniques of the Oulipo group to text found in local newspapers. Earl will be using The Ottawa Citizen as her source text for the month.

OULIPOST is inspired by the experimental writing practices of Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle — or “workshop of potential literature”) writers. Founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais, the group encourages the application of writing constraints to generate new structures and patterns.

“Oulipo constraints provide poets a chance to break free from the restrictions and challenges they face in their everyday writing practices,” noted Found Poetry Review Editor-in-Chief Jenni B. Baker. “We’re encouraging writers to be bold, take risks and write about topics they normally wouldn’t touch.”

Examples of the writing constraints poets will face range from relatively simple – a tautogram in which every word in the poem must start with the same letter – to a sestina, a fixed verse form consisting of six stanzas of six lines each, followed by a short three-line stanza. In all cases, the words and phrases incorporated into the poems must be taken from the poet’s local newspaper.

“I've always found constraint-based poetry to be a chance to up my game and learn a few things,” explained Earl.

This is the third year the Found Poetry Review has led a project for National Poetry Month. Last year, the journal enlisted 85 poets to create found poetry from the 85 Pulitzer Prize-winning works of fiction as part of its Pulitzer Remix project.

Keep track of Earl's progress at amandaearl.tumblr.com. View updates from all OULIPOST poets at http://bit.ly/oulipost.

ottawater #10 : Dolman, Lea, Le Dressay, Massey + Prevost,

The tenth issue of the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater is now online at www.ottawater.com, featuring work by Chaudiere Books authors Anita Dolman, N.W. Lea, Anne Le Dressay, Karen Massey and Roland Prevost, along with numerous others.

Tuesday poem #34 : Joe Blades

Chaudiere Books author Joe Blades has a new poem, "where is tomorrow's wine?," now posted on the dusie blog as part of the "Tuesday poem" series.