Author Archives: Pearl

That’s not so much creeping up but running full tilt. I’ll have the fabulous new Jamie Sharpe chapbook for sale and be browsing all the new wares. Cash or credit card. Ottawa Small Press Fair, Fall EditionSat. Nov 16 12-5pm, Tom Brown Arena, 141 Bayview Station Rd, 2nd floor (overlooking hockey arena).

The general arc of the book The Long Invisible: poems by Michael Dechane (Wildhouse Publishing, 2024) moves from break up to new relationship. From opening pages there is an ache. “Because I love Twice at Once” (p.10) within insomnia “I come to this window/naked, where winter pours in./Here is a tang my skin remembers.” The […]

Just a reminder if you have a newsfeed of this, I’m also at Substack: https://pearlpirie.substack.com and at Patreon. Some people donate there for which I am grateful since I’m not working f/t at a job, not teaching nor doing government work. One can’t apply for most grants yearly. So income of my own, that’s sweet […]

Coming up Thursday evening in 2 weeks, the Chelsea Author’s Day at the Farmer’s Market. “Discovering Chelsea Writers” on 19 September! A mellow jello sort of time with live music and local food venders, as well as farmers, and if we’re lucky will coincide with the week of the French patisserie table. There’ll be readings […]

This fall Poetea events will be held at 7pm on the first Thursday of each month in the library at the Community Centre, 38 Valley Drive, Wakefield. We will be following the same format as last season: each themed event will include a reading from a featured poet, followed by an open mic. Poetea events […]