The second and fourth Tuesday of each month just before Tree are free drop in workshops to spark your poetic fire. They are at SAW Gallery in Ottawa Ontario. (Check The Tree site for changes.) The season continue tomorrow, September 24 with HYBRID TEXTS. Let’s explore “hybrid texts” that cross genres, that is poetry/ narrative/ […]
Author Archives: Pearl
95 books for 2013, Part 12, 117-125
Moments of Truth: Twelve Twentieth Century Women Writers by Lorna Sage (Fourth Estate, 2001) It was pitched oddly so far as cover — the literary critic’s name is 3x bigger than the title of the book and who she’s talking about is relegated to hard to read text on the back cover. Perhaps that is […]
Factory Reading Series
span-o (the small press action network – ottawa) presents an irregularly scheduled series of locals and out-of-towners in the Factory Reading Series. Saturday night has readings by: Hoa Nguyen (Toronto), Dale Smith (Toronto) and Mari-Lou Rowley (Saskatoon), lovingly hosted by rob mclennan. When/where/who? Saturday, September 21, 2013; doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm The Carleton Tavern, 223 […]
Truhlar
Death hasn’t got a rightness at any age but in his early 60s, Richard Truhlar surely wasn’t due. He published his first book while I was busy being conceived. He was starting presses and writing and performing sound poetry decades before I realized poetry existed outside old books. A musician, artist, chef, gardener, poet, spec […]
On Sharing Your Work
Fictionalized generic statement: I’m working on an idea but I can’t tell you any of it. It’s too new, too unfinished. Fair enough. Getting a handle on. Talking it through might illuminate but maybe verbalizing it all out is just how I think. Fictionalized generic statement: I’m making some poems but just trust me on […]