Natural Capital by Jason Heroux (Mansfield, 2012) [favorite of this group. Already reread immediately.] Form of Forms by Mark Goldstein (BookThug, 2012) [on being adopted] Best Poetry of Stephen Crane (New York University Press, 1899, Kindle) Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (ed, Harry Haile and Mike Pullen, Kindle) Cutting Room by Sarah Pinder […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Here and There Poetry Tidbits
A beautiful short film from Australian revolving around Yeats is called Bat Eyes My contribution to Poet Secrets is up at Canadian Poetries Monty Reid is leading a workshop at Ottawa Public Library in March. It’s free and you can get your poems in ahead of time. I’ve joined GoodReads and 49thShelf (Now what?) I […]
Donation Perks: Poems In the Hand of the Poet
VerseFest’s Indiegogo funding drive is 2/5 of the way to the goal. It has added a few more items, beyond pins, t-shirts, feel-good-feelings, festival passes and tax receipts…want a framed, handwritten poem by Karen Solie? By Phil Hall? Or how about Philip Levine? If you like broadsheets and limited print run, this may be your […]
On form and magazine function
ConduitCanada has an interview with Bardia Sinaee. It’s worth a full read. Here’s a couple snippets, On “the resurgence on form poetry”, Form never died or even faded, it’s just been mutating. How do we define or pin down the form of Berryman’s dream songs? I don’t think early post-modernism threw the formal baby out […]
BQJ Launch and Fundraiser for Cornerstone
Jill Zmud (who you can hear on iTunes) was the featured music at the Bywords Quarterly Journal launch at the Manx Pub on Sunday the 27th. It was special not only because of her sweet music singing of the prairies and her a capella voice, that had half a dozen people I saw reaching for […]