Author Archives: Pearl

Btw, there are updates to upcoming readings, and a new haiku section on website. Also, maybe phafours press is coming back small, micro-books of object poems. Then more trad, maybe come fall? A few in mussels, a few in jars, a few unfolding from birch bark backed with felt. Finding the fun of playing again…extending […]

If I let myself talk I only depress myself. Maybe that’s why I like to wear another person’s mind through reading. Training a posture. A break from self. There are so many books I want to finish writing but the inner heckler is revved up and I’m getting tired of the fight against rotten fruit […]

As I mentioned in an earlier there was an annual National Poetry Month in the Pontiac event in Shawville, population 1600. Fun fact, unlike most municipalities in Quebec, it has no Catholic church. This is an area I’ve been researching for family history and I learned that thanks to a person in charge of handing out […]

Hey all, Sit tight. It’s going to a longer one. I used to do it a lot of testing out poems at reading series around Ottawa before the Great Crash of the Year I was Dead, and moved out of the province. I used to get out a couple to a few night a week […]