There are books I bought, because they looked interesting in passing, or at writers festival, or while traveling. Those are on my list. And some meant-to-reads that kept getting bumped off the top of the list by ones that fell into my lap physically. Maybe I’ll expand what I did before and put a one-line […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Today is Poem in Your Pocket Day
Put a poem poesy and put it in your pocket. What to pick? There’s a new one of mine up The Week Shall Inherit the Verse today. Disseminate that willy-nilly if you wish. What’s the world out there but something in concert with our breaths? Alice Burdick’s poem is up at The Toronto Quarterly invites […]
Charles Wright
Virginian poet Charles Wright was interviewed on PBS a couple years ago.He struck me as humble and purposeful. Each word is carefully considered and placed, not with patting it down but opening something up. He seems more of a archivist who considers than a preacher who tries to convince. His poems seem more the outcomes […]
Make Poem, Make Self, Make World
So long as someone is writing, do we need to write? There is more being produced in a year in English poetry alone that one could consume in a lifetime, if one could source it all. If it were about creating to fill a niche that would be a relevant concern but it is also […]
Press
The current issue of Kitchissippi Times gives press to the small press – the March 28 Factory Reading Series.