the first sugar ant surveys the counter lifting the silver brittleness of last years herbs, fresh oregano is clamped to the ground, more leaf than stem, more green than anything except pincushion moss among its fellows and lichens crowding a planetscape on a boulder.a housefly makes wobbly lobs of test flights. clusters of junco flocks sweep tips of […]
Author Archives: Pearl
New reviews posted
Do It Wrong: How to be a Poet in the Twenty-first Century by Derek Beaulieu (Assembly Press, 2026), Best Canadian Poetry 2025 edited by Mary Dalton (Biblioasis, 2025), and Sincerely Katherine: Life, Gender, Inclusivity and Leadership for the Future by Katherine Dudtschak (Page Two, 2026).
Out and about
Have you noticed how cooking and editing are comically ill-at-odds with each other? Did you know ravioli is edible after being cooked for at least 25 minutes and fried for the last few? *le sigh* I have poems up at Thinking About Strawberries All the Time. Did I mention the Griffin Prize wants feedback? I […]
Openings and Closing Calls
2 new poems are up at The Pi Review. Good to see them landed well as a test for the manuscript. * That’s not nothing. Still I feel a post should be longer. (Too late to bury the lede?) * What else? there’s 40% off poetry books for Poetry Month at Haymarket. * Should I […]
Poetry links
Open mic as part KaDo at versefest.ca, was 1:30pm Sun Mar 29, Black Box Theatre, Arts Court, Ottawa. I read a few haiku atMinute 52:43. Photos at PearlEssence. If you missed it, theVF channel is still there to see events you missed. or want to have another go at listening to. Like Isabella Wang at […]