In workshopping poems (which I’ve done on and off for over 25 years now) there are rules of thumb which make for good habits, for example: consistent capitalization [which I will always be dinged for], standard spelling [I mix U.S. and British, sometimes in the same poem for the same word], losing the pattern [starting […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Literary Landscapes, Aug 15th
Pleased to say that I’ll have the pleasure of interviewing Steve Artelle of Writer’s Pantheon on Literary Landscapes tomorrow, 6:30 EST at CKCU, live or online. He can give you a sense of his new upcoming collection of poems, Metropantheon, to be published by Signature Editions in 2014. His various rabbit lanterns, Queen of the […]
95 Books, Part 10: 98-105
Reading some novels, memoir, essays, but finishing mostly poetry in this section. Pavilion of Women by Pearl S. Buck (Book, 1946), I’ve had this book on the to-read list for some time. It travels over years from one point of view in pre-revolution China. That, my friends, is how to a novel, build a world, […]
fw: Anstee, Miscione and Casteels
On Saturday, August 10, Raw Sugar (692 Somerset St. W.) will be hosting an afternoon of poetry and fiction. There will be books for sale and writers to point at and say “Hey, do I know you?” or “My brother’s a writer!” or “I like your use of semi-colons” or “Do you know where I […]
Tune in
Tune in, not drop out tonight. Christine McNair at 6:30pm EST will be in her cycle as host of Literary Landscapes on CKCUfm, her last show after 4 years. She will be interviewing/chatting with me in the transition show. In 4 weeks I’ll be on the rotating roster of hosts with Kate Hunt, Neil Wilson […]