For One Night and One Night Only: 5 Ottawa poets who launched earlier during the pandemic: Susan Atkinson, Jacqueline Bourque, Conyer Clayton, Doris Fiszer and Deborah-Anne Tunney. Books available for sale on site.
Author archives: Pearl
Loved Then, Loved Now: Go to the Limits of Your Longing
I grew up reading Rilke under the assumption that I was reading a woman, Maria. (Ah pre-internet days.) Go to the Limits of Your Longing God speaks to each of us as he makes us,then walks with us silently out of the night.These are the words we dimly hear:You, sent out beyond your recall,go to […]
Elsewhere
You can see poems and books I’m reading at my Instagram, support me at Patreon, and see at the eponymous feed at twitter, news on biology, puns, flowers, disability, poetry… And of course in person Saturday afternoon in Ottawa at the small press fair.
Making chapbooks
I shall essay* to explain this process. I have been working out a choose-your-own-adventure (CYOA) type flipbook chapbook of haiku for nearly 3 months now. The number of options in how to read increases exponentially with more poems. A dozen haiku make for 1,726 possible readings. 18 haiku make for nearly 6000 possible readings. The […]
Checking In With: Roland Packer
How did I meet Roland? On the page, over and over. We met face-to-face just once but I had and have followed his concrete and experimental haiku in journals for years. He has a refreshing take on things. For example, q ant m from Wayfarers outlastingeveryone she loved –heartwood Tinywords Or this one at is/let. […]