Author Archives: Pearl

LEARN TO WRITE HAIKU   A Five-Week Online Course   Haiku is one of the most misunderstood poetic forms. There is a lot more to haiku than counting syllables. In fact, counting syllables in English written haiku is a misnomer. One element of haiku is juxtaposing images in surprising new ways:   sparse shadow of […]

a poem from The Atlantic Anthology, Volume 2, edited by Fred Cogswell (Ragweed, 1985) Decisions, Decisions Since I can’t win your love with poetry I think I will take up football. All one needs is 250 pounds of muscle, instantaeous reflexes, unhesitating obedience, and an adamentine determination to die in agony, hands mashed, thighbones splintered, […]

I was tagged to take part in The Next Big Thing, a literary blog interview. In The Next Big Thing writers answer ten questions about their work-in-progress, then tag five of their writer friends to do the same. Gillian Wallace tagged me and also links to Sandra Nicholls and Ben Stephenson. So far, two responses […]

Wow, is that a gorgeous cover or what? It’s by Chris Patchel, with Frogpond under the new editorship of Francine Banwarth. I haven’t dove in yet but look forward to it. Here’s a senryu that popped by Patty Hardin afraid of her own shadow afraid of her Isn’t that exactly how repetition isn’t redundant. I […]

Dear friends: Collected Works is up for sale – but only until Christmas Eve. The price: $1.00. The catch: the new owner will need to assume all the store’s current liabilities. If a buyer does not come forward by December 24, we will have no choice but to close our doors. We took a gamble […]