The Dusty Owl Reading Series does not go on hiatus for the summer, unlike Tree this year which after June bows out for the summer. Dusty Owl: Time and Place: 3:00 pm. Mugshots Bar, 75 Nicholas Street Format: Featured reader followed by open set June 23 – Jim Smith & Lesley Belleau, music by Matthew […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Worth More than a Chance Glance
If you want to go to a northern small town excursion of people’e poetry, May 29th – June 1st is the poetry festival in Cobalt Robert Peake has a tender poem at Boston Poetry “The blessings laid by our mothers on our foreheads— let this one live a simple life, uncomplicated” June 30th is the […]
95 Books, Part 6
To continue on the 95 books project, the next few I’ve been pecking away at, each glad I have the opportunity to read. This time with excerpt of some that I found particularly wowing, and wanted as first impulse to hand-copy then retype as a way of thinking on it again. How to Live on […]
What is Being Said
In Rae Armantrout’s 2007 book, Collected Prose she considers linear vs. lateral thinking as ways of expressing. In a quote of that she says, “When people ask me what I mean in a poem or whether I mean it, I’m stymied. I mean/don’t mean. I mean that experience is double, that doubleness is the essence […]
Quickie
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