Author Archives: Pearl

Some writing experts with courses seem to harp on about linearness. You start something, you finish something. Process is negated without reaching for the brass ring of product. Big emphasis on closure. It makes sense. It’s an economic model of you pay for classes, you get your money back in sales therefore offset courses. For […]

Are there mistakes really? Or only critical mindset? Obviously grievous ones exist in war and acts of fear. But what comes after?  I’ve added a couple people on social media with the same name as intended connection but by time I sort it’s not that person, it’s an interesting human so let’s go with that. […]

Btw, there are updates to upcoming readings, and a new haiku section on website. Also, maybe phafours press is coming back small, micro-books of object poems. Then more trad, maybe come fall? A few in mussels, a few in jars, a few unfolding from birch bark backed with felt. Finding the fun of playing again…extending […]

If I let myself talk I only depress myself. Maybe that’s why I like to wear another person’s mind through reading. Training a posture. A break from self. There are so many books I want to finish writing but the inner heckler is revved up and I’m getting tired of the fight against rotten fruit […]

As I mentioned in an earlier there was an annual National Poetry Month in the Pontiac event in Shawville, population 1600. Fun fact, unlike most municipalities in Quebec, it has no Catholic church. This is an area I’ve been researching for family history and I learned that thanks to a person in charge of handing out […]