Author Archives: Pearl

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 […]

I am aiming to read wider, and source sustainably. And peck away at French books. I kick myself for not getting any häiku at the conference. This count includes ones read and partly read. Not the 50 or so others scattered around. I’m hoping to finish title 115 read this week. Page count varying from […]

I’m toying with the idea of doing a call and getting a chapbook done for end of June. Madness?