Dionne Brand on the bus. In Poetry in Transit. Did you see the photos from the BookThug 10th aniversary party? Kolewe’s photos John Ashbery in interview at the Paris Review said, “One can accept a Picasso woman with two noses, but an equivalent attempt in poetry baffles the same audience.” You saw that Frances Boyle […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Poetry in Cobourg
The good folks of Cobourg brought poetry to the sidewalks on the weekend. 500 poems were posted around town by poets sending in their own works to be displayed on store windows. Here’s a clip of how it looked. What a fun idea. Watch Mandy Robinson reads a love poem, “like a light” by Pearl […]
Books to Review
You can buy my previous book Thirsts at the shiny new updated Invisible Books site or from me directly. If you’d like a review copy, email me. I’ll probably bring some of them and phafours things to the Ottawa small press fair in June along with the last few things, If, and Our Hircine, Murine […]
Unarmed!
A whole whack of back and new issues of Unarmed have arrived from Michael Mann. Lovely! Good to see some issues I missed getting. It’s been going 14 years now, 67 issues out of Minnesota. Issue #66 has, among others Camille Martin. & Kevin Spenst who is heading on his cross-Canada chapbook reading tour, due […]
Tweaking Sense
Hugh Thomas did a Factory reading of his translations, mentioning Clint Burnham’s sonnet book, reminding of Franzlations (by Gary Barwin, Craig Conley, and Hugh Thomas from a few years ago as well. I’m on a translation kick. Here’s one spun Marvin Bell’s Earplugs at Cordite Poetry Review from homophonic translation and subjected to other mechanical […]