Author Archives: Pearl

A peruse of what’s out there for sound… Heard of Poets: a documentary on Canadian poets (from 2007) is now online with these contemporary folks: Seymour Mayne, George Elliott Clarke, Mark Frutkin, Max Middle, Shane Rhodes, Oni the Haitian Sensation, AJ Levin, Jim Larwill, Pauline Michel, Terry Ann Carter, John Akpata, Drew Bernard, a.rawlings, Nicola […]

Sometimes the best part of a reading is the unscripted bit, such as how readers or the works reference each other in unplanned ways, the randomness interlinking, or such as randomly synchronous interruptions; I can recall one in which the poet said emergency and an ambulance siren, as if on cue, started to wail. Where […]

Jennifer Pederson has been a voice coach for about a decade. Her first workshop on voice and microphone was illuminating. I’ve had to use a mic for work and for readings for 15 years or so but didn’t get the principles. Some things are easier to demonstrate than to describe. Here’s a couple that are […]

Last night’s show was a hoot. This group pic is at FB and Humanyms but for those who don’t go to either, Unfortunately my pics of the open mic were all pretty unrecoverably blurry. Here are some shots from during the reading: It was hosted by the witty improv MC Nadine Thornhill. Tickets from her […]

One more reminder: Voices of Venus hosts Where there’s Fire‘s launch at the best adult toy store in town, Venus Envy. We’ll be reading from poems not from the chapbooks as well but here’s a line or phrase the chapbook from each poet as a teaser… “cardboard as a trapline dance floor” ~ Robin MacDonald […]