VERSeFest this week! and other (author) updates,

, in which we begin to talk about authors, interviews, appearances, and other miscellany,

So, VERSeFest: Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival begins this week, but you probably already know that. above/ground press authors Andy Weaver (newish chapbook, Robert Duncan at Disney World), Phil Hall (recent-ish chapbook The Green Rose, with Steven Ross Smith, among multiple other titles) and Eileen Myles (new chapbook, Teenage Whales) are performing as part of our fifteenth annual festival, among plenty of others (Myles even reads twice! and runs a workshop!). You probably already saw the recent interviews posted at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics with Andy Weaver and Phil Hall, I’m sure. Otherwise: Benjamin Niespodziany (The Northerners) hosts Vik Shirley (CASSETTE POEMS) and a whole bunch of others this week in North Hollywood, as part of AWP; Gwen Aube launches their new above/ground press debut (pulp necrosis) on April 1st in Montreal, alongside Simina Banu (Tomorrow, adagio) and others. For more ongoing updates and upcoming events, you can always check out the above/ground press blog.

Otherwise, you probably already saw that Ben Robinson has some new poems up at the temz review; Chris Banks posts an essay over at The Woodlot, on how he still believes in National Poetry Month; Stuart Ross has a bunch of new poems up at Mercurius; and Frances Boyle has a new poem up at Concision, new work at Full House Literary and a further at Major 7th Magazine. ryan fitzpatrick is the first in the Canadian Poets series over at Peripety and/or Tronies; Saba Pakdel has a poem up in the "poetry pause" series via The League of Canadian Poets; Rae Armantrout has three new poems up at N+1, and two new poems up at The Fortnightly Review; Penn Kemp has two poems and two paintings over at The Typescript. I mean, you are an astute and attentive bunch, I’m sure. These are all just reminders, after all.