Author Archives: Pearl

It is too hot for words. Photos I can do. Have been doing. Is it just me or is prose easier than poetry in higher temperatures? 5 days into August and I have two ghazals and 5 haiku written. Mostly I’ve been reading. Chapbooks, single author collections, what have you. I’m doing the Sealey Challenge. […]

I know the adage poetry is that which does nothing, but please, let us not confine ourselves to such lazy cynicism. Poetry doesn’t have to ignite passion and action, nor refuse to. Poetry can be whatever nudges meaning or lack of meaning as language touches a human tangent. Poetry can be in a breeze, or […]

an accurate cigarette: poetry & prompts by Sarah Burgoyne (above/ground, 2026) has prompts and her responses to them. I’ve been going through that, generating poems in this wild bit of heat and storm we find ourselves in, within a side of vertigo (to go soon I hope). One of her prompts was take a rough […]

There’s a certain inflexibility to a mind that replies with quotes, cited rules. But. An antiquarian bookshop, Ageless Literature, posted about the cultural value of memorizing. The act internalizes a rhythm. Its breath becomes yours, and by repetition, you understand it more intimately. You can continue to access what is memorized and it can access […]

I said I’d mention when a post went up about haiku community. It took me a week-long minute. But that’s up to the plasticity of time, isn’t it? I’m doing very well on my to-do lists, measured by the one of mid-May. June, well, progressing. I think of spring, but also summer. The sheer amount […]