Do you make ephemera? Have you ever made chapbooks in Canada? Ever wonder what the bigger picture is? Be a puzzle piece that speaks and answer a few questions for a PhD survey on Canadian small & micropress. It needs your info asap. You might get a lollypop but you’ll have to negotiate such higher […]
Author Archives: Pearl
95 Books, Part 4
A research group compiled the 1000 most popular titles owned by libraries worldwide. LibraryThing lists books that are in the zeitgeist. Traditionally I’ve considered that if something is popular it’s safely covered and will be carried into the future. I can expend my energies on other things. So the next chunk of the 95Books endeavour […]
VERSeFest Day 5: Capital Slam
As a civilian – as opposed to those on the organizing committee or the reading series organizers – I sometimes feel as if festivals were built for me. Given the room of 30-80, or so, for each event, evidently it fit with more people than me for audience. JM Francheteau watching the show and Monty […]
VERSeFest Day: Day 4: Higgins and Sweeney
The advantage of a festival is going to everything because you don’t know what you don’t know. Some poets have no digital footprint or are in a different literary ecosystem that isn’t liable to cross paths with your usual path. Rita Ann Higgins began to write poetry in the 70s after being hospitalized with tuberculosis […]
Integrity
John Maeda said, As we both have an arts background, the word “integrity” has special meaning. She said resolutely, “Integrity equals consistency.” Ah, interesting odd tidbit. Internal consistency is my nemesis. Consistency, aka “voice” – those subjects, attitudes, moods, syntax, lineations, cleverness ratio, densities, language register – which some aspire to, to make it seem […]