Craig Dworkin and I are presenting “Poetics Sights and Sounds: Talk and Reading” April 20th 7:30 pm at Columbia University (602 Hamilton Hall) — see you there!

I’ve just confirmed that I will be reading as part of the launch of filling Station #52 at Shelf Life Books (100, 1302 – 4th Street SW) March 23rd at 7:00pm. Hope to see you there!

On March 31st I will be doing two readings in Ottawa through the A/B Reading Series. The first is a free reading 3:00 at The Daily Grand (601 Somerset St. W), the second ($9/$7) is a performance and chat about visual poetry at Gallery 101 (301 1/2 Bank St). See you there!

My performance as a short-listed candidate at the 2012 Calgary Poet Laureate Showcase is now available for viewing. The selected candidate will be announced at Calgary City Council March 19th…

Jeroen Nieuwland has just reviewed seen of the crime at his blog transversalinflections and expanded on this discussions here. More information on seen of the crime, including ordering information, can be found here.

NO PRESS is proud to announce the publication of “pentaphtong” by Jaap Blonk. Published in an edition of 50 copies, this leaflet will be available at readings (and via the post) through-out the spring; keep an eye out!

NO PRESS is proud to announce the publication of “surprising poetry” by Judith Copithorne, one of the pioneer Canadian Concrete poets. Published in an edition of 100 copies, this leaflet will be available at readings (and via the post) through-out the spring; keep an eye out!

rob mclennan’s above/ground press has just published

ECONOMIES OF SCALE: rob mclennan interviews derek beaulieu on NO PRESS / derek beaulieu interviews rob mclennan on above/ground press
with a selection of new work by both authors

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I’m proud to announce that Lori Emerson and I are editing a new collection of John Riddell‘s work. Writing Surfaces: The Selected Fiction of John Riddell will be published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Spring 2013.

How to Write has just been reviewed by both ryan fitzpatrick (in Canadian Literature) and Melissa Dalgeish (in The Bull Calf).