Each 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month the Tree Reading Series is at Arts Court on Daly Ave, just East of the Rideau Centre. It is often held in the library room on floor 2a. At 8 pm is the featured readers, sometimes an open mic and often a tribute to past poets. But […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Book Buying
Survey results of book buying habits said in part: The [500 survey] respondents said they discovered books in both physical bookstores and in online bookstores, with the online venue being more important (39% as opposed to 32%), but they were twice as likely to purchase the books online. This suggests to me that the phenomenon […]
Dusty Owl 2013 Season of Song and Word
Cathy (left) hosts, and has since 1996-99 and 2003-now. That’s 13 years, folks, at once or twice a month. The Dusty Owl has flown to a new roost in Mugshots at 75 Nicholas Street Old Jail, now a youth hostel. It is in the space that used to be the prisoner’s chapel, now serving beer […]
Transferring your Katra into Serifs
Stanley Kunitz said, “The poem is not just language, it is itself an incarnation. The poem is more alive than anything except the body itself, and it’s less perishable., one hopes, than the body. When I’m reading Hopkins aloud, I feel I am actually occupying his selfhood and speaking out of it, not simply reciting […]
My reasonable expectations for buying books
When I buy a book, or anything, online I expect: To get an automatically generated response within the day that the order has entered the system To get a response within 3 days with the name of the item and estimated time of delivery. To get the item within 7-10 days To get a response […]