August's TRUCK; a month of poems,

In case you didn't notice, that nice Halvard Johnson was good enough to let me drive his TRUCK for the month of August, and i posted a month's worth of poems by various Canadian writers: nikki reimer, Stan Rogal, Camille Martin, Monty Reid, Jake Kennedy and kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Amanda Earl, Kathryn MacLeod, Marcus McCann, Sandra Ridley, Cameron Anstee, Daphne Marlatt, Gil McElroy, Natalee Caple, Nathan Dueck, Priscila Uppal, Lary Bremner, Marilyn Irwin, Jay MillAr, Sonnet L'Abbé, Jordan Abel, Trisia Eddy, Joe Blades, Meghan Jackson, Barry McKinnon, Judith Copithorne, Rob Budde, Shannon Bramer, David McGimpsey, Kim Minkus and George Bowering, finally ending the month with a new piece of mine. Check out the entire month here.

rob curates TRUCK during the month of August,

During the month of August, I’ll be curating Halvard Johnston’s blog, TRUCK, and daily posting new work by various Canadian writers.

This is the same site where Christine McNair and I first premiered our work-in-progress collaborative work (which has yet to figure out a title), a work that recently produced a small fragment as an above/ground press chapbook.

Given that TRUCK originates “in the tri-state area,” I wanted to find a wide array of Canadian writers to introduce to American audiences, to further previous sections I’ve edited on and by Canadians such as the three features I edited for Jacket ("Some Canadian poets," "George Bowering at 70" and "Douglas Barbour at 70"), or dusie 10: the Canadian issue.

Be sure to check the site every morning to see just who might be featured, each with a poem, a bio and an attractive photo. The first poet is Nikki Reimer, recently returned to Calgary from Vancouver. Watch for new work over the coming days by Jake Kennedy and kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Camille Martin, Stan Rogal, Kathryn MacLeod, Natalee Caple, Gil McElroy, Monty Reid, Daphne Marlatt, Nathan Dueck, Amanda Earl, Sandra Ridley, Marilyn Irwin, Cameron Anstee and plenty of others. Enjoy!

TRUCK: Christine McNair + rob mclennan, two poems from a collaborative work-in-progress,

Two poems from my collaborative work-in-progress with Christine McNair are now on-line at Halvard Johnson's TRUCK, thanks to November's editor, Andrew Burke.

See the link, too, to my little essay on our collaboration, at Open Book: Ontario.