Step one: Acknowledge the person and site that involved you in the blog tour: Ryan Pratt’s blog tour tap Step two: Answer the 4 questions below about your writing process: 1) What am I working on? As of March 30- April 9 when I’m writing this: There’s a phrase that bothers me as wrong in […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Versefest 2014: Sister in Slam
Way back on Day 3 of Versefest there was a woman’s slam performance. Kayla Fraser (left) organized and MCed the event where there was a roller coaster of arc with poets cycling from topic to topic on aspects of being female from dating, to assault or fear of, friendship and love, from politics to motherhood […]
Word Tools
You already know about Reverse Dictionary which is a kind of an online thesaurus and RhymeZone but did you notice Rhyme Zone now has not just perfect rhymes, near rhymes, similar sounding words but in the same drop down “find word in poetry excerpts“. I’m pretty sure that’s new. Also new is an oulipo of […]
Live in Studio
4/5 of Messagio Galore’s Quatour Gualuor were in studio this morning. Brian, jw, Rachel and Georgia were on the radio in a Messagio Galore promo for tonight’s show with Susan Johnston’s Special Blend this morning on CKCU. It is archived here for a few weeks: here. It’s about 20 minutes long of conversation and a […]
MESSAGIO GALORE take XIV: Ottawa
When: Friday April 11th at 8pm Where: Gallery 101, 51B Young St. Ottawa. What: an adventure in segéëtude via John Cage’s Lecture on Nothing. Sound poetry, somewhere between music and poetry framed inside John Cage’s Lecture on nothing a reading of things from concrete poetry to visual poetry to song. A lot of the pieces […]