So, I dive in again. The first focus was to concentrate and complete, not skim and browse restlessly. To completely read and completely rest to prevent cognitive exhaustion. Next to up the percentage of people read who are not just contemporary middle class white. To focus on Canada’s classics, but not exclusively. To consider the […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Last Call, Chocolate
I know the pic says 10th but it was extended to the 20th. Just in case you’re sitting on cocoa poems.
Tonight on Literary Landscape
How to get your memoir on? On the air with Brecken Hancock talking about this and more. Brecken Hancock’s poetry, essays, interviews, and reviews have appeared inLemon Hound, The Globe & Mail, Hazlitt, Studies in Canadian Literature, and on the site Canadian Women in the Literary Arts. Her first book of poems,Broom Broom (Coach House, 2014), was named […]
Cento
It’s a remarkable sensation being in a group of writers where each knows the other’s go-to ideas and style and how that projection produces a poem from cento process like a thumb print from each. The effect among people who are strangers isn’t visible in the same striking way. To today’s rusty gate I gave […]
Poetry Writing Rates
I have been scrupulous since elementary school to note what draft number a poem is, giving hooks for cross-referencing with date started, how many drafts it takes to end. Most of the early poems are on paper aka largely lost/mislaid/likely to be foisted at me from one of mom’s sheds, but ones I have from […]