Author Archives: Pearl

Last Monday I started collecting leaves and testing designs. I have a post about the earlier stage of inking for making the chapbook covers at the Ottawa small press almanac… The chapbook is coming out on Saturday June 20th at the small press fair. (Another post is coming elsewhere Sunday afternoon about haiku. I’ll let […]

Want to get stocked up on more odd and intriguing things to read? the ottawa small press book fair, spring 2026 is on this weekend–the afternoon until 5pm of Saturday, June 20, 2026 in the Main Hall of the Glebe Community Centre, 175 Third Avenue (at Lyon St. S). There was a cancellation so I will table, and hang […]

A few more coming in the next few weeks, but here are three I’ve done, John’s Table by Lesle Lewis (Piżama Press, 2026), and Tamil Terrains: poems, translations, reflections, edited by Nedra Rodrigo and Geetha Sukumaran (Trace Press, 2025) and The Poet’s Cookbook, edited by André Narbonne

It’s summer, for sure this time. Gave my author site a cleanup for broken links and to be better organized. Read a bit. Sent a couple more submissions. Took a walk. Transcribed some. Birdsong of various chirps, and another, somewhere among cat’s meow, falsetto donkey and door hinge. Took a horsefly, a wasp, a few […]

I have curiosity about monoku which are one-liner haiku. Not monostitch — that is more like the American sentence. I do like me a good caesura. I’m thinking, I’ll try to make a group chapbook again. It’s been a while. I’m thinking for the end of June 2026, the ottawa small press fair, with a […]