It’s like this. I was thinking little photo shoots with clusters of books and stuffed animals. (And making it more complicated than necessary. What fun complications can be.) I was keeping all the read books in a read-it stack. As weeks passed, the stack got buried, toppled, raided, mixed up with new or partly read […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Factory: Madhavan-Reese, Spenst & Pirie
Kevin Spenst spent yesterday poem-bombing Ottawa. He’s towards the end of the biggest poetry tour possible for the smallest wee books. When he gets back to Vancouver he’ll hit 100. Kingston gets him today and St. Catharines, soon. And last night the Factory Series Reading happened. What a fun time. Good crew of audience with […]
News roundup
Yesterday’s Sneha & I were onClick Here with Mitchell Caplan. You can listen at that link. Did you see Michael Jacobson’s asemic piece at NationalPoetryMonth.ca? Here’s a whole gallery of asemic writing The New Post-literate “I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won’t have to fool around with it any […]
Versefest 2014: Goyette Connelly and McFadden
A few more things from Versefest. Sue Goyette read. She warned before her reading think of it like technomusic. The poems make no sense. There’s no decoder ring, no test afterwards. You get them or you don’t. You probably already have Sue Goyette’s Ocean right? Before or after it was short-listed for the Griffin? Funny […]
Putting the Launch in Launch: Factory Series
Glue is dry. Supervisor cat confirms. When supervisor cat wasn’t lying on the instructions. The launch projectiles include a dozen excerpts from each of the poets attached to a mint or chocolate mint candy. If test flings are, er, ah, problematic, the poems will be party favours on the tables. Who reads? You know this, […]