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the VERSeFest fundraiser is live! to officially launch our rebuilding year, check out perks including an in-person poetry workshop with Stephen Brockwell! manuscript consultations with Madeleine Stratford, Otoniya J. Okot Bitek, Sandra Ridley, Stephen Collis, ryan fitzpatrick, Stephanie Bolster and Annick MacAskill! books, chapbooks and magazine subscriptions! and more to come!
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On Beauty: stories, (University of Alberta Press, 2024) : now available for pre-order!
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upcoming events!
- rob reads as part of the milk magazine reading series, May 8, 2024 (Toronto ON
- rob reads as part of the PEP Rally reading series, June 20, 2024 (Picton ON
- the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2024 edition: June 22, 2024 (Ottawa ON
- rob features as part of Shab-e She’r at the Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Avenue, July 30, 2024 (Toronto ON
- Christine reads as part of the PEP Rally reading series, September 19, 2024 (Picton ON
- rob features with Christine McNair at Single Onion, November 21, 2024 (Calgary AB
- rob's (ongoing) editing service: poetry manuscript evaluation;
other rob links
- rob's author page on facebook
- rob's Electronic Poetry Center page: NEWLY UPDATED!
- Interview Editor at Queen Mob's Teahouse (2015-2020)
- rob's Jacket2 'commentaries' (January-March 2015)
- rob's extensive links page
- rob's League of Canadian Poets page
- Sentinal poetry November 2005 feature
- rob's Ploughshares page
- 1998 Via Rail Great Canadian Literary Tour
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- 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Melia McClure
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- Pattie McCarthy, extraordinary tides
- Rose finally gets a fish
- 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Walter Anc...
- Ian Seed, Night Window
- Buck Downs, NICE NOSE
- 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Barrett Bo...
- Ongoing notes, mid-January 2024: Karen Schindler +...
- Kelly Weber, You Bury the Birds in My Pelvis
- 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Lisa Olstein
- Kay Gabriel, KISSING OTHER PEOPLE OR THE HOUSE OF ...
- Walter Ancarrow, ETYMOLOGIES
- 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Dan Crawley
- the genealogy book
- from Fair bodies of unseen prose,
- rob reads next week in London ON at Antler River P...
- Touch the Donkey : new interviews with Berlatsky, ...
- 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Josie Teed
- two new reviews!
- the VERSeFest fundraiser is live!
- just emerging from losing four days to the flu,
- A ‘best of’ list of 2023 Canadian poetry books
- Spotlight series #93 : Emma Rhodes
- today is kate's thirty-third birthday,
- Jack Underwood, Not Even This: Poetry, Parenthood ...
- 12 or 20 (second series) questions with Joe Baumann
- dusie : the tuesday poem,
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rob essays/reviews/articles
- Joel W. Vaughan reviews Four Stories (Apostrophe Press, 2016) at Broken Pencil
- Pearl Pirie on rob mclennan + mentorship : The League of Canadian Poets (September 2016)
- Pearl Pirie on rob mclennan : Celebration of Canadian Poets, Brick Books (September 2016)
- from the desk of rob mclennan, at Real Pants (May 2016
- "Publishing Tips: On Attention," at The Malahat Review, January 2016
- a review of my "a (short) history of l." by Elizabeth Kate Switaj at Poets' Quarterly
- a review of my "wild horses"
- a short write-up on the reading I did in November 2015 with David O'Meara and Brecken Hancock through the Ottawa Arts Council
- reviewers on reviewing, for CWILA, November 2015
- One More Thing, August 2015
- Profile of Ben Ladouceur, with a few questions, at Open Book: Ontario, June 2015
- Janet Nicol reviews Notes and Dispatches: Essays, at The Maple Tree Literary Supplement
- article by Catherine Brunelle on rob's many online schemes, Apartment613
- review of Why Poetry Sucks: An Anthology of Humorous Experimental Canadian Poetry (Insomniac Press, 2014) now up at Arc Poetry Magazine
- review of Pearl Pirie's the pet radish, shrunken (BookThug, 2015) at The Small Press Book Review
- review of Pattie McCarthy's x y z & & (Ahsahta, 2015) at The Small Press Book Review, March 2015
- "World's End: Alta Vista," at Atticus Review, February 2015
- Family Literacy Day, some recommendations, All Lit Up blog, January 2015
- "On Writing" at Catina Noble's blog, January 2015
- "Life Is Too Short For A Long Story," a new essay up at Numero Cinq, January 2015
- rob mclennan: recommended reading, at Readerby (November 2014)
- Brian Mihok reviews The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (Chaudiere Books, 2014) over at Rain Taxi
- review of 70 Canadian Poets (Oxford, 2014), ed. Gary Geddes, at Cordite Poetry Review
- review of Redell Olsen's Film Poems (Les Figues, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- All Lit Up Fall Preview: rob mclennan anticipates Stan Dragland's The Bricoleur & His Sentences (Pedlar Press, 2014)
- Ryan Pratt reviews "Acceptance Speech" (phafours, 2014) over at the ottawa poetry newsletter
- Profile of The Rotary Dial, with a few questions, at Open Book: Ontario
- Profile of Stuart Ross' Proper Tales Press, at Open Book: Ontario
- Author's Note, at matchbook lit, September 2014
- "Ottawa Lit: fall 2014 preview," at Open Book: Ontario
- review of The Uncertainty Principle: stories, (2014) at Necessary Fiction
- review of The Uncertainty Principle; stories, (2014) at Broken Pencil magazine
- "rob mclennan on Elizabeth Smart," re-posted at Literary Mothers
- review of Eric Baus' The Tranquilized Tongue (City Lights, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- Profile of Jason Christie, at Open Book: Ontario
- "(further) notes on the archive," at Open Book: Ontario
- "On starting a new poetry journal: Touch the Donkey," at Open Book: Ontario
- review of Lisa Jarnot's a princess magic presto spell (Solid Objects, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- "John Newlove at 76," at Open Book: Ontario
- Where Do You Write, My Lovely? (June 2014)
- "Literary mothers: rob mclennan on Elizabeth Smart" at Open Book: Ontario (June 2014)
- review of Pearl Pirie's Quebec Passages (2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- Aaron Daigle discusses How the alphabet was made, (2014) over at the Flat Singles Press blog
- review of Cecily Nicholson's From the Poplars (Talonbooks, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- review of Emily Kendal Frey's Sorrow Arrow (Octopus Books, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- "Writing, fatherhood (fragments," at Open Book: Ontario (May 2014)
- At the Desk: rob mclennan at Open Book: Ontario (April 2014)
- review of Angela Carr's Here in There (BookThug, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- review of Endi Bogue Hartigan's POOL [5 CHORUSES] (Omnidawn, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- review of The Uncertainty Principle: stories, by Ryan Pratt, at the ottawa poetry newsletter
- review of Anne-Marie Turza's The Quiet (Anansi, 2014) at The Small Press Book Review
- Pearl Pirie discusses How the alphabet was made, (2014) over at her blog,
- review of The Uncertainty Principle: stories, at The Small Press Book Review
- WHAT IS YOUR FRAGMENT IV: rob mclennan responds
- review of Sarah Gridley's Loom (Omnidawn, 2013) at Jacket2
- Scott Gridley reviews Mother Firth's (2013) in Broken Pencil #62
- "Writing Fatherhood, pt. 4," at Open Book: Ontario
- Ryan Pratt reviews The Laurentian Book of Movement (2013) at the ottawa poetry newsletter
- "Writing Fatherhood, pt. 3," at Open Book: Ontario
- "Writing Fatherhood, pt. 2," at Open Book: Ontario
- "Writing Fatherhood," at Open Book: Ontario
- Gordon Bolling reviews missing persons (2009) at Canadian Literature, October 2013
- en route : Ottawa's Literary Scene Stacks Up, October 2013
- Ryan Pratt reviews The creeks (above/ground press, 2013) over at the ottawa poetry newsletter
- Alejandro Bustos discusses Songs for little sleep, and Mother Firth's, over at Apt 613,
- John Lent reviews Songs for little sleep, over at Arc poetry magazine
- review of Marie Annharte Baker's Indigena Awry (New Star, 2012) at Vallum magazine,
- Ryan Pratt reviews my chapbook, Trace, (above/ground press, 2013) at the ottawa poetry newsletter
- Introduction, "Stan Rogal's Brautiganesque," on The Toronto Review of Books
- Alejandro Bustos profiles me for Apartment613, April 2013
- Alejandro Bustos profiles my enormously clever blog for The Ottawa Blogging Library, April 2013
- Some notes on Lisa Jarnot's 'Sea Lyrics,' at Jacket2
- (brief) profile by Lucy Morrissey
- Edric Mesmer reviews (among other things) my chapbook Sextet: six poems from Songs for little sleep, (above/ground) at Galatea Resurrects #19
- review of Hoa Nguyen's As Long As Trees Last (Wave Books), at Galatea Resurrects
- review of Dorothea Lastky's Thunderbird (Wave Books), at Galatea Resurrects
- review of Steven Ross Smith's Fluttertongue 5 (Turnstone Press) at Turntable + Blue Light, December 2012
- a note on "Miss Canada," at Bywords.ca
- Daily Offerings: a note on "Songs for little sleep," at Branta
- Matthew Hall reviews A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011) in Canadian Literature
- Cameron Anstee reviews my chapbook/essay, The stone-boat heart: letters to Andrew Suknaski over at his blog,
- shorthand: eleven short essays on fiction, at The Puritan
- j/j hastain reviews Glengarry (Talonbooks) and C. (little red leaves) over at Turntable + Blue Light
- Pearl Pirie responds to the Call and Response/SPAO end-of-project reading (June 2012)
- Andrew Burke's article on collaboration in Southerly, that mentions myself + Christine McNair,
- review of Jake Kennedy's Light & Char (Greenboathouse, 2010) at The Antigonish Review
- Notes on Five Canadian small (micro) publishers for Cordite Poetry Review (May 2012)
- review of Jamie Townsend's MATRYOSHKA (little red leaves) + Edward Smallfield's Equinox (Apogee) at Turntable + Blue Light,
- review of my Glengarry (Talonbooks) with Andy Weaver's Gangson (NeWest) by Sean Braune in Canadian Literature
- a short review/mention of a (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks) in the Halifax Chronicle Herald,
- reviews of my grief notes: (BlazeVOX) and a compact of words (Salmon Publishing) by Rupert Loydell
- review of my grief notes: (BlazeVOX) by Jordan Fry
- Profle of The Emergency Response Unit, with questions at Open Book: Ontario
- rob's "Top Eleven (Canadian) poetry books of 2011," on the Dusie blog
- "Roy Kiyooka's 'Pacific Windows,'" on The Capilano Review blog
- "collaborating with Lea Graham," on The Capilano Review blog
- review of Elizabeth Robinson's Three Novels (Omnidawn) at Galatea Resurrects #17
- review of Jake Kennedy's Apollinaire's Speech to the War Medic (BookThug) at Galatea Resurrects #17
- rob recommends Dirty Semiotics by Jesse Patrick Ferguson (Broken Jaw Press, 2011) at the Advent Book Blog, December 20, 2011
- Profile of Ottawa's Mother Tongue Books at Open Book: Ontario
- On Richard Brautigan's Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970 (1972) at We Who Are About To Die
- Profile of Ottawa poet Pearl Pirie at Open Book: Ontario
- Profile of Ottawa poet Sandra Ridley at Open Book: Ontario
- "There was something about the body: Sylvia Legris," on The Capilano Review blog
- Profile of the ottawa international writers festival + questions with director/co--founder Sean Wilson at Open Book: Ontario
- Eileen R. Tabios on my work-in-progress "The Uncertainty Priniciple: stories,"
- Profile of Cameron Anstee's Apt. 9 Press at Open Book: Ontario
- "Four Questions for Deborah Barnett, Someone," at Open Book Toronto
- "Ottawa's Thriving Literary Scene," by Vera Grbic
- "A second time around: a conversation between rob mclennan and Stephanie Bolster," on seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry + poetics
- "Sainte-Adele: redux," Open Book Ontario
- Mark McCawley reviews rob mclennan's chapbook "First you know, and then so ordinary," (above/ground, 2010)
- A short interview with Michael Blouin, Open Book Toronto
- Robert Kroetsch (June 26, 1927-June 21, 2011), at Branta
- "Call and response: a note on Phil Hall, and 52 flowers (or, a perth edge)" at Maple Tree Literary Supplement
- "an old poem embedded in thoughts on the ottawa river" at Open Book Ontario
- review of Ken Belford's Decompositions (Talonbooks)
- longer article/interview by Patrick Connors, on rob mclennan's Pivot Reading, May 4, 2011, at Open Book Toronto
- "an old poem embedded in thoughts on the manx pub," at Open Book Ontario
- article/interview by Maja Stefanovska, Writers History
- review of wild horses (U of Alberta) by Ryan Porter, The Bull Calf;
- article/interview by Patrick Connors, on rob mclennan's Pivot Reading, May 4, 2011;
- "An old poem embedded in thoughts on my mother" at Open Book Toronto
- "the glass manifesto: on blogging" at Open Book Toronto
- group review of Oana Avasilichioaesi, Meredith Quartermain, Sachiko Murakami & George Stanley at Maple Tree Literary Supplement
- "Anticipating The Man who Killed Don Quixote" at Rain Taxi
- review of M NourbeSe Philip's Zong!
- "writing and reading glengarry county" at Open Book Toronto
- "the green-wood essay: a little autobiographical dictionary" at Open Book Toronto
- review of Marcus McCann's Force Quit (The Emergency Response Unit) in The Antigonish Review
- "writing and reading glengarry county" at Open Book Toronto
- review of missing persons by Cassie Leigh
- review of David Donnell's Watermelon Kindness, at Prairie Fire Review of Books
- "Translating Pessoa: Winnett, Taddle, Garrison" at Open Book Toronto
- "Casa Mendoza" at Open Book Toronto
- review of wild horses by Jeramy Mesiano-Crookston, Ottawa X-Press
- Love, Anne Carson: a fictional essay in the wrong order
- "G20" at Open Book Toronto
- "Walking Brun's Wick: on bpNichol's The Martyrology Book 5" at Open Book Toronto
- on prairie poet Andrew Suknaski
- "Bloomsday, High Park" at Open Book Toronto
- "Wide Awake in High Park North" at Open Book Toronto
- "Nights below Front Street East" at Open Book Toronto
- rob's participation in Gary Barwin's Heine Project
- review of Larissa Lai's Automaton Biographies
- "Valentine's Day, the Royal York Hotel" at Open Book Toronto
- Judith Fitzgerald reviews rob's wild horses for Globe and Mail book blog
- "Alberta Redux" at Open Book Toronto
- "Spring, and all" at Open Book Toronto
- Globe and Mail book blog: rob mclennan on Robert Kroetsch
- "Canadians in New York: The Chelsea Hotel" at Open Book Toronto
- "Queen City Chronicles" at Open Book Toronto
- "The implied," on Branta
- Globe and Mail book blog: rob mclennan on Pearl Pirie
- Globe and Mail book blog: Judith Fitzgerald on rob mclennan
- Reading and Writing Glengarry County: The Long Sault Hydro Electric Project
- Douglas Barbour at 70, Jacket
- how to love everything: thoughts on rereading Sarah Manguso, Moria
- review of Eric Baus' Tuned Droves
- review of Monty Reid's The Luskville Reductions
- "lake, my pretty name" at Open Book Toronto
- "the cn tower" at Open Book Toronto
- review of Catherine Wagner's My New Job
- "Dispatches from the Future Bakery" at Open Book Toronto
- article on rob for Guerilla mag by Nigel Beale
- review of on bondage by Trisia Eddy & Lainna Lane El Jabi
- "lake, oh pure contradiction" at Open Book Toronto
- "sleeping in toronto" at Open Book Toronto
- Robin Blaser obit for the Xtra chain
- review George Bowering's According to Brueghel
- review of Alberta dispatch in the Ottawa X-Press
- review of Margaret Christakos' What Stirs
- review of George Bowering's Kerrisdale Elegis
- reviews of Roger Farr's Open Text: Canadian Poetry in the 21st Century
- reviews of Sachiko Murakami and Oana Avasilichioaei
- rob as part of Runaway Jury 5 (GG poetry shortlist, 2008)
- review of white
- review of Rob Budde's Finding Ft. George
- review of Dennis Cooley's correction line
- as part of Shawna Lemay's Capacious Hold-All project
- Stephen Brockwell's The Real Made Up and David McGimpsey's Sitcom
- Rereading Sheila Watson and Elizabeth Smart at the Garneau Pub, Edmonton
- Amanda Earl on rob's blog (5 years!)
- review of Donna Stonecipher & Serge Gavronsky, Verse magazine
- review of Some Answers by George Bowering
- review of Patrick Friesen's Interim: Essays & Meditations
- review by Judith Fitzgerald
- rob in Calgary's ffwd weekly
- Susannah M. Smith's mention of white
- new review of aubade (Intercapillary Space, UK)
- Dennis Cooley's fictions: "love in a dry land" (Vallum magazine)
- review of white in Vue Weekly (Edmonton)
- Phil Hall’s surrural: Ontario gothic, the killdeer, the music of failure and the distraction of shifting ground
- review of white in The Globe and Mail
- review of Sarah Lang's The Work of Days
- some short little poetry reviews i wrote for The Ottawa X-Press
- review of George Bowering's Vermeer's Light: Poems 1996-2006
- article on the U of Alberta website
- article in The Gateway (U of Alberta student newspaper)
- short piece by Nathaniel G. Moore, Critical Crushes Volume 3, No. 7
- article in The Edmonton Journal by Todd Babiak
- review of Rachel Zolf's Human Resources (Vallum magazine)
- review of Susan Briante's Pioneers in the Study of Motion (Vallum magazine)
- Myrna Kostash's All of Baba's Children (or, "on once not staying at Myrna Kostash's house")
- review of name, an errant by John Stiles
- review of The Ottawa City Project (Ottawa X-Press)
- a brief note on the poetry of Sandra Ridley
- article in The Ottawa Citizen by Patrick Langston
- On (not) Being an Alberta Writer: or, anticipating UofA
- review of Transversals for Orpheus & the untitled 1-13 by Garry Thomas Morse
- a brief note on the poetry of Michelle Desbarats
- review of Jay MillAr's Sporatic Growth
- article on rob on new literary press Chaudiere Books
- a brief brief note on the poems of Karen Massey
- review of Birk Sproxton's Headframe: 2
- review of Dennis Cooley's Country Music: New Poems
- a brief note on the poetry of Michael Dennis
- some notes on aubade by Amanda Earl
- an accumulated retreat: four chapbooks from BookThug
- a brief note on Rhonda Douglas
- another review of name, an errant
- John Newlove's "Ottawa poems"
- the stone-boat heart: letters to Andrew Suknaski
- review of Graham, mclennan above/ground press items
- review of name, an errant
- review of F.T. Flahiff's A Life of Sheila Watson and Barbara Caruso's A Painter's Journey, 1966-1973
- review of Andy Weaver's Were the Bees
- a brief note on the poetry of Max Middle
- notes on geography: Meredith Quartermain, John Newlove, William Hawkins & The Ottawa City Project
- Writing the Terrain: Travelling Through Alberta with the Poets and Post-Prairie: An Anthology of New Poetry
- review of Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, ed. Sina Queyras
- Clare Latremouille & the moon
- on Changing on the Fly, The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering
- on Barry McKinnon's The Centre: Poems 1970-2000
- best practices, small press action network - ottawa
- The Trouble with Normal: Breathing Fire II, Pissing Ice and the State of Canadian Poetry
- Smaller than small: small press article by Matthew Firth, Ottawa X-Press
- review of rob's red earth, etc. (Arc)
- on Margaret Atwood's Survival
- review of rob's what's left
- Sex at Thirty-One -- McKinnon, Fawcett, Gold, Stanley, etc.
- review of Di Brandt, Suzanne Zelazo & nathalie stephens (Coach House Books)
- on John Newlove's "The Death of the Hired Man"
- Notes on Andy Weaver's "Three Ghazals to the constellation Corvus (The Crow)"
- a. rawlings' micropress essay
- review of Stephanie Bolster & Stephen Brockwell
- review of rob's paper hotel, etc. (Arc)
- review of rob's harvest: a book of signifiers, etc. (Arc)
- review of rob's bagne, or Criteria for Heaven
- another review of rob's bagne, or Criteria for Heaven
- yet another review of rob's bagne, or Criteria for Heaven
- What's Love Got To Do With It?: two Margaret Christakos poetry collections, wipe.under.a.love & Excessive Love Prostheses
- review of Stuart Ross' Razovsky at Peace (ECW)
- review of Robert Allen & Jan Conn
- review of Alice Burdick
- review of Carmine Starnino & Aurian Haller
- review of Susan Gillis
rob interviews
- rob mclennan interviewed on above/ground press for Entropy mag, December 2016
- by Julienne Isacs, "On the Art of the Literary Interview," The Town Crier
- by Lea Graham, Atticus Review, February 2015
- by the editors, Canadian Literature
- by OttawaWrites on Chaudiere Books and our big Indiegogo Campaign
- by The Review Review on ottawater and Touch the Donkey, August 2014
- by Nathaniel G. Moore, Verbicide magazine, August 2014
- with Jon Paul Fiorentino for The Rusty Toque, July 2014
- by Susan Toy, "Reading Recommendations," July 2014
- by David Prosser, barsetshirediaries, June 2014
- by Poets Touching Trees, May 2014
- by The League of Canadian Poets, April 2014
- by the editors, on The Mackinac #2, August 2013
- by Jessica Kluthe on "The Uncertainty Principle: stories," July 2013
- by Kimberly Ann Southwick on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, Boog City 80, May 2013
- by Ribbon Pig (conducted May 2012) on "How the alphabet was made," April 2013
- by Alison Lang, on the 20th anniversary of above/ground press, the Broken Pencil blog, January 29, 2013
- by Finn Harvor, on Conversations on the Book Trade, December 18, 2012
- by Jonathan Ball, "What are you working on right now?," September 8, 2012
- by Evan Munday, on Canadian Poets Petting Cats, July 3, 2012
- with David O'Meara, in/at Ottawa Magazine
- by The South Townsville micro poetry journal (interview + poem), March 15, 2012, Australia
- by Janet Vickers, Lipstick Press; a little (birthday) interview, Gabriola BC
- by Rusty Morrison, Omni-Verse (the Omnidawn blog), on Canadian poetry, blogging/reviewing + above/ground press,
- by Cassie Leigh, Grey Borders Reading Series blog, St. Catharines ON
- by Darryl Salach, The Toronto Quarterly blog; a new poem + a little tiny interview,
- by Kim Jernigan, on Ottawa as a literary capital, for The New Quarterly blog
- by derek beaulieu, 10 questions for rob mclennan on above/ground
- by James Pickersgill, Poetry'z Own Weekend Festival, Cobourg ON
- by Kevin Spenst, on editing & revision,
- by Nathaniel G. Moore, "The state of short fiction in Canada, part one" at Open Book Toronto
- by Sina Queyras/Lemon Hound, "On reviewing"
- by Jonathan Ball, "Mass Interview 1: Marginalia"
- by Eric Schmaltz, Grey Borders Reading Series blog
- rob answers the Proust Questionnaire, Open Book Toronto
- by Jacob Mooney, The Torontoist
- by Peter Simpson, The Ottawa Citizen
- by Susan Olding, Proved on the Pulses
- by Bruce Deachman, The Ottawa Citizen
- by Open Book Toronto
- by Jonathan Ball
- by The Danforth Review, on the ottawa small press book fair
- with Elizabeth Bachinsky
- some answers to questions and a poem at Canadian Literature (UBC)
- with Sachiko Murakami
- with Sandra Ridley
- with Melanie Little, editor, Freehand Books
- by Ryan Saxby, on the ottawa small press book fair
- by Broken Pencil, on the Departures chapbook
- rob answers his own '12 or 20 questions'
- by ryk mcintyre for GotPoetry (part two)
- by ryk mcintyre for GotPoetry (part one)
- 12 or 20 questions project (interviews with various authors)
- by Lea Graham, for MiPOesias
- with Rob Budde
- by Didi Menendez, Men of the Web Wide Poetry World
- with/by K.I.Press, responding to my "anticipating Alberta..."
- by Haas Bianchi
- by Cameron Anstee
- with Stephen Brockwell
- with Shane Rhodes
- by Matthew Firth, on Chaudiere Books
- by Nathaniel G. Moore, on Chaudiere Books
- with Rachel Zolf
- with Chris Turnbull
- with Monty Reid
- with Adam Dickinson
- with Amatoritsero Ede
- with Dave Cooper
- by Amatoritsero Ede
- by Sheila Murphy
- with William Hawkins
- with Jay MillAr (on BookThug)
- with John Barton
- with Max Middle
- with Meredith Quartermain
- by james hörner
- with Stephen Cain
- with Stan Rogal
- with Douglas Barbour
- by donato mancini
- with Gil McElroy
- with/by Stephanie Bolster
- by Michael Bryson
- by Michael Bryson (on above/ground press)
writer (etc) blogs i often read
- (NEW!) rob's list of blogs by Canadian writers
- Jonathan Ball, Calgary AB
- John Barlow, Toronto ON
- Gary Barwin, Hamilton ON
- derek beaulieu, Calgary AB
- Charles Bernstein, New York NY
- Gregory Betts, Ste. Catherines ON
- Biblioasis blog, Windsor ON
- Joe Blades, Fredericton NB
- Michael Bryson, Toronto ON
- Rob Budde, Prince George BC
- Mairead Byrne, Providence RI
- Stephen Cain, Toronto ON
- Jason Camlot, Montreal QC
- Jason Christie, Calgary AB
- Cormorant Books blog
- Brad Cran, Vancouver BC
- Peter Culley, Nanaimo BC
- Marita Dachsel, Edmonton AB
- Lauren B. Davis, Princeton NJ
- John Degen, Toronto ON
- Conrad DiDiodato, Toronto ON
- Nate Dorward, Toronto ON
- Amanda Earl, Ottawa ON
- Jon Paul Fiorentino, Montreal QC
- ryan fitzpatrick, Calgary AB
- Tom Fowler, Ottawa ON
- Corey Frost, Montreal QC / New York NY
- Laurie Fuhr, Calgary AB
- Ariel Gordon, Winnipeg MB
- Spencer Gordon, Toronto ON
- Kate Greenstreet, New York NY
- Helen Hajnoczky, Calgary AB
- Sharon Harris, Toronto ON
- Jill Hartman, Calgary AB
- Amy King, New York NY
- Dawn Marie Kresan, Kingsville ON
- Ben Ladouceur, Ottawa ON
- Larissa Lai, Calgary AB
- Shawna Lemay, Edmonton AB
- Rachel Loden, Palo Alto CA
- Annabel Lyon, Vancouver BC
- John MacDonald, Ottawa ON
- Robert Majzels, Calgary AB
- Billy Mavreas, Montreal QC
- Marcus McCann, Ottawa ON
- Max Middle, Ottawa ON
- Jay MillAr, Toronto ON
- Nathaniel G. Moore, Toronto ON
- Sachiko Murakami, Vancouver BC
- Wanda O'Connor, Montreal QC
- Susan Olding, Kingston ON
- Paul Pearson, Edmonton AB
- Pearl Pirie, Ottawa ON
- Harriet, the Poetry Foundation blog, US
- ross priddle, Calgary AB
- Sina Queyras, Montreal QC
- a. rawlings, Toronto ON
- nikki reimer, Vancouver BC
- Brent Robillard / The Backwater Review, Athens ON
- Stuart Ross, Toronto ON
- Mari-Lou Rowley, Saskatoon SK
- Maria Scala, Scarborough ON
- Brenda Schmidt, Creighton SK
- Jordan Scott, Toronto ON
- Ron Silliman, PA
- Natalie Simpson, Calgary AB
- Jessica Smith, Mid-Atlantic
- Susannah M. Smith, Vancouver BC
- Juliana Spahr, Oakland CA
- nathalie stephens, Chicago Il
- Anne Stone, Vancouver BC
- Kate Sutherland, Toronto ON
- Mark Truscott, Toronto ON
- Michael Turner, Vancouver BC
- Daniel Scott Tysdal, Moose Jaw SK/Toronto ON
- Vehicule Press blog, Montreal QC
- Aaron Vidaver, Vancouver BC
- Natalie Zina Walschots, Calgary AB
- Darren Wershler-Henry, Toronto ON
- Thomas Wharton, Edmonton AB
- Ian Whistle, Nepean ON / Winnipeg MB
- Michael Winter, Toronto ON / St. John's NFLD
- Rachel Zucker & Arielle Greenberg, New York NY
- Heather Zwicker, Edmonton AB
- Atlanta Poets Group
- Trans-scribing Canada (between Taiwan and Canada, but not in the Pacific Ocean)
- Calgary blowout blog
- Chaudiere Books blog
- ottawa poetry newsletter
- alberta, writing
- thirdfactory list of other poetry blogs etc
- list of Canadian writers' blogs from the Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta
- rob's list of other blogs
other books/sections edited
- Guthrie Clothing: The Poetry of Phil Hall, A Selected Collage
- Tuesday poem, Dusie blog, April 2013 etc
- Halvard Johnson's TRUCK, August 2012
- Douglas Barbour section, Jacket
- Open Letter: A Canadian Journal of Writing and Theory; "new Canadian poetries" issue
- Decalogue: ten Ottawa fiction writers
- Decalogue: ten Ottawa poets
- George Bowering section, Jacket
- evergreen: six new poets
- side/lines: a new Canadian poetics
- new Canadian poets section, Jacket
- YOU & YOUR BRIGHT IDEAS: NEW MONTREAL WRITING
- Written in the Skin: a poetic response to aids
Cauldron Books (rob mclennan, series editor)
- Cauldron Books (Broken Jaw Press)
- ancient motel landscape, shauna mccabe
- Dancing Alone, Selected Poems, William Hawkins
- Groundswell: best of above/ground press, 1993-2003
- resume drowning, Jon Paul Fiorentino
- This Day Full of Promise, poems selected & new, Michael Dennis
- Shadowy Technicians: New Ottawa Poets
some other lit sites worth reading
- Aaron Tucker's Agora Review, Toronto ON
- branta: celebrating the might of write (Goose Lane blog), Fredericton NB
- Peter Darbyshire's CanCult, Vancouver BC
- Trevor Cole's Authors Aloud, Toronto ON
- Chicago Postmodern Poetry
- The Danforth Review, Toronto ON
- ditch: the poetry that matters
- Doppelganger, Vancouver BC
- Dooney's Cafe :: A News Service
- The Goose
- Intercapillary Space, UK
- It's Still Winter, Prince George BC
- Jacket magazine, AUS
- jwcurry/Messagio Galore page (with links)
- LEXICAN RADIO, Vancouver BC
- Narrativity
- Northern Poetry Review
- The Parliamentary Poet Laureate "Poem of the Week"
- paperplates, Toronto ON
- Parser: New Poetry & Poetics, Vancouver BC
- Phillytalks
- Stephen Collis' Poetic Front, Vancouver BC
- PoetryReviews.ca
- rabble.ca
- The Rain Review of Books, Vancouver
- Rain Taxi
- ReLit Awards
- Shampoo Poetry
- stonestone, Prince George BC
- Louis Cabri's Talknophical Assumnacy, Windsor ON
- W magazine (KSW), Vancouver BC
- UbuWeb
- /ubu Editions
- more here
rob's audio/video
- rob's first post-Alberta Ottawa reading at the Dusty Owl Reading Series, Sunday, June 8, 2008
- on Bookmark, CKUA Radio (Edmonton), March 16, 2008
- on Breakfast Television for Ottawa: The Unknown City, A Channel, Ottawa, March 14, 2008 (YouTube)
- on Trevor Cole's Authors Aloud, reading from The Ottawa City Project
- Reading at the Atwater Library, Montreal, Thursday, February 16th, 2006
- a new poem, "The Key of L," on On Barcelona, September 2013
- two short stories in Sassafras #1, September 2013
- two new poems in Tarpaulin Sky, August 2013
- new poem, "from Hark, a journal: 1864-1967," in Himalayan Walking Shoe, July 2013
- new poem, "Origin story:," in The Wonder Book of Poetry, Jully 2013
- new poem, "Conditions of the shudder," above/ground press broadside #319, June 2013
- four new poems, in The Avatar Review #15, June 2013
- two very short stories, in The Barnstormer, May 2013
- collaborative poem with Christine McNair in Gritty Silk #1, May 2013
- new poem, "Testament: a short sequence of poems after housewares," in The Wonder Book, May 2013
- 2 poems from "Songs for little sleep," in foam:e 9, May 2013
- new poem, "Conditions of the shudder," up at the LPG National Poetry Month blog, April 19, 2013
- new poem, "Bank Entire," up at The Steel Chisel, April 2013
- new short fiction, "A Short Film About My Father," on Numero Cinq, April 2013
- new poem, "King Kong Goes to Cambridge," on Dr. Hurley's Snake Oil Cure, March 2013
- new poem, "Liner notes: empty, for an era," on On Barcelona, March 2013
- new poem, "Birthday Poem for Gwendolyn Guth," on Peter Ganick's experiential-experimenta-literature, March 2013
- new poem, "King Kong Goes to Parliament Hill," on Centretown Nonsense, February 2013
- new poem, "Self-portrait, with infant," on Konundrum Engine Literary Review, February 2013
- four prose poems, "Notlake Utanikki," on Talking Writing, January 2013
- new poem, "King Kong Goes to Stratford," on On Barcelona, January 2013
- new poem, "A SINGLE STREAK, PURE WHITE OF SKY," on the Verse magazine blog, December 2012
- new poem, "Imaginary Fred," on Peter Ganick's experiental-experimental-literature, November 2012
- new short story, "The Matrix Resolutions," on The Puritan, November 2012
- from "Songs for little sleep," in On Barcelona, October 21, 2012
- Field Notes: Dear Lea Graham, on Centretown Nonsense (October 2012)
- two poems from an untitled collaboration with Christine McNair, in summer stock (September 2012);
- from "Songs for little sleep," in TRUCK, August 31, 2012
- from "Songs for little sleep," in Newark Review, August 2012
- a short short story at Reader's Digest Canada (online), July 2012
- from "Songs for little sleep," in The Offending Adam (with little write-up), June 20, 2012
- from "Songs for little sleep," in Truck, June 13, 2012
- from "The underside of the line," in Turntable + Blue Light, May 2012
- from "Songs for little sleep," in foam:e 9, April 2012
- from "Songs for little sleep," in Prompt #1, April 2012
- from "how the alphabet was made," at NationalPoetryMonth.ca
- sequence "Notes on the subject of marriage" at Quarter After #1 (March 19, 2012)
- three new poems at NAP 2.4 (March 12, 2012)
- untitled short story at Fortunates (January 29, 2012)
- Subject; , on Scott Howard's RECONFIGURATIONS: Volume 5: Disappearance (January 21, 2012)
- Territory is not Map--, on Halvard Johnson's On Barcelona (January 16, 2012)
- two poems from "Songs for little sleep," on Dear Sir, (January 2012)
- a small handful of poems, in BlazeVox Winter 2011 issue (January 1, 2012)
- two poems from an untitled Sainte-Adele collaboration with Christine McNair, in TRUCK (November 24, 2011)
- "lake, verse," in Canadian Literature #208 (spring 2011)
- "The Carleton Tavern, shadow," on Mad Hatter's Review blog, August 8, 2011
- from "Songs for little sleep," on Lily, August 1, 2011
- "A (broken) line of ants," poems responding to Warren Dean Fulton's last Ottawa Pooka Press pub crawl, at Upstart, July 7, 2011;
- two lake poems, on Apparent Magazine, July 4, 2011
- "Vancouver, specifically," on Sachiko Murakami's Project Rebuild, July 6, 2011
- "They will take my island," June 30, 2011
- four poems online at Stride magazine (England), June 13, 2011
- Poemaday 12, May 13, 2011
- National Poetry Month blog, The League of Canadian Poets, April 2011
- Prick of the Spindle, 4.3, Sept. 2010
- Otoliths, summer 2010
- late nights on bank street: a concordance, from Branch 2.1
- AngelHousePress, Nat'l Poetry Month, from "grief notes"
- monday poem, leaf press, January 18, 2010
- shampoo 36
- turntable (BC)
- angelhousepress' national poetry month, 2009
- a poem and brief write-up at The Globe and Mail blog
- black robert journal
- pf poetry
- leaf press, Monday's Poem
- milk
- rob mclennan feature at Poet's Corner - Fieralingue
- three poems on the TREE Reading Series "open mike" page
- ars poetica
- lexican radio
- another new rob poem on The Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
- rob mclennan feature on Other Voices International
- Starfish Poetry #8
- rob on MayDayPoems, daily during May, 2008
- blue skies poetry
- Forget Magazine
- BlazeVOX
- ditch: the poetry that matters
- OCHO #11
- Bywords.ca
- Puritan Fiction Magazine
- Walrus, Toronto ON
- Stylus Poetry Journal
- Shearsman magazine 69/70
- Shadowtrain 13
- stonestone, winter 2007
- Dusie 5
- Sidebrow
- Otolith 3
- Jacket 31
- Murderous Signs 13
- Drunken Boat 8
- melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks 4
- "intercapillary space"
- listenlight 01
- aught 15
- The Parliamentary Poet Laureate Poem of the Week
- luzmag
- RealPoetik
- zafusy
- Nth Position
- The Argotist Online
- Spillway Review
- P.F.S. Post
- Moira Poetry Journal
- Shampoo 23
- Malleable Jungle
- Stylus Poetry Journal
- Jacket 28
- Hutt
- Cordite Poetry Review
- Sentinel Poetry
- Honouring Mothers
- The Alterran Poetry Assemblage
- stonestone
- the muse apprentice guild
- Pettycoat Relaxer
- Gumball Poetry
- Milk
- Flatlands
- Shampoo 18
- greenboathouse books
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