What is the unit of composition? The line? The phrase? The sentence? The argument? The image? Life-wide? Sound? Form? Metaphor? Rhythmical unit? When I look at how I think poetically, or generally, there’s a lot of constraint, but also a pattern of deconstructing and reconstructing strategies. I like to take words apart, dissect ideas. What […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Cash Value for Time
None of this enter a contest for free business. MyTimeHasValue is kickback against the government competition to design a logo for the anniversary of confederation. Bet that surprised the planners of the feel good about your country campaign. It fits in nicely with a poem I’ve been ruminating through. The economics of time is money […]
For the love of cocoa
This call for chocophiles only: Poems that rhapsodize the holy bean. Any style. End product would be an anthology chapbook to cocoa by April 2015. So, a.s.a.p. by Valentine’s Day, Send 2 poems maximum in .doc or .rtf to the contact address with the subject: “chocolate”.
The State of the Writing Industry
Have you read Pasha Malla’s report? Some interesting thoughts in his 27 thoughts on CanLit including, 7. Part of the reason for this dismay is that there seems to exist a tacit, unchallenged compact among those of us who work in the literary arts that we are all on the side of good[…] 9. Is […]
Morris and Babineau on CKCU
Tonight at 6:30pm on Literary Landscapes: two poets livestreamed or on playback at CKCU 93.1fm. Tracie Morris is my first guest this evening. She’s at AB Series, Jan 15th The Ottawa Art Gallery | La Galerie d’art d’Ottawa 2 Daly Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6E2 8pm-9:30pm. Tracie presents her work extensively as a poet, performer […]