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- Another Christmas in Old Glengarry
- Robert Kroetsch's Excerpts from the Real World
- Worth repeating: Ben Okri, “Of Poets and Their Ant...
- Ongoing notes: late December, 2008
- What kind of city would you like to live in?
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- Letters to Poets: Conversations about Poetics, Pol...
- Interview with Roger Farr, CUE Books (Capilano Uni...
- Ongoing notes: some magazines
- cocktails, the chateau laurier, etcetera;
- Katia Grubisic, What if red ran out
- Maxine Chernoff’s The Turning
- The Best Canadian Poetry in English, ed. Stephanie...
- Diane Woodward at the Mud Oven;
- Joe Blades, from the book that doesn’t close
- Ongoing notes: some book fairs, Ottawa & Expozine
- Concordia University’s Headlight anthology, #10-11
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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
1 comment:
It was great meeting Lainna. How she comes back to Ottawa often.
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