We finally made it to Pressed Cafe on Gladstone. They are tying into the community with all sorts of events. Bri took a picture from the outside. I haven’t been to quite this kind of thing before. It has something of a small press fair to it, a Ravenswing event with only papery things. Or […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Making Sense Your Own
“you have seen already that the word barbaric has two bars in it. My kind of talk in a poem will strum the two bars in a word like barbaric, acknowledging it visually as well as referentially. Making sense turns out to be very limiting. There is more to be said than that.” Phil Hall […]
Lists of Anticipated
There are still books from the last couple years I haven’t bought (like Light by Thammavongsa or Camlot’s What the World Said) or bought and haven’t consumed (too many to say) … and yet, sight unseen, there are some things to look forward to in poetry: Versefest Ottawa, Haiku Canada Weekend in Ottawa (and the […]
Chapbooks in Mailbox
The mailbox has been happily munching chapbooks over the last few hours. Sugar Beach by Camille Martin. A much more linear thing than the last sequence I saw from her. Albanian Suite by High Thomas and , N.W. Lea’s Present. Those three as well as a broadside by Maria Erskin (out of photo) will be […]
Versefest 2014
Versefest is coming in the last week of March from the 25th-30th. What do we know so far? A lineup of local, regional, national and international is likely. January 30th Rusty Priske announced “VERSeOttawa (with a little help from the Capital Poetry Collective) crowned the 2014 Ottawa Women’s Champion last night at the Sisters of […]