Author Archives: Pearl

Hey slammers and slam-lovers, The final Qualifying Round for VERSeOttawa’s Women’s Slam is coming up this Saturday December 8th. If you are hoping to qualify for the Championship Round (happening in January 2013), this is your LAST CHANCE to do it. We already have eight women lined up for the Championship, but we’ve got four […]

A lot of readings have people present new work. Dusty Owl occasionally and Tree’s Schroedinger poet spot, have the chance for people to read what poems they like that are not by the rader. rob hosted and MCed a third set of Factory reading series, talking poetics, on Nov 15th. It was a fundraiser for […]

Mansfield Press has it’s Ottawa launch Monday, December 3, 7 pm at Raw Sugar Café, 692 Somerset (near Bronson and the the Chinatown Arch) Readings by: – Sarah Dearing, from her mesmerizing third and long-awaited novel, The Art of Sufficient Conclusions – Paula Eisenstein, from her strange and wonderful debut novel, Flip Turn – Jason […]

You did know that Collected Works has a Friday night open mic, didn’t you? Friday, December 14 Open Mic at Collected Works – 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. So far in our relaunched Open Mic series we’ve had the world premiere first concert of a local folk band, the return of the Guitar Gods, an amazing […]

Because I count, I counted the Schrödinger’s Poet Readings where people step forward and say, if you don’t know about this poet, you should and gives a 5-10 minute spiel on the life, times and works of a poet. What is up is not a statistically significant size of sample to not have coincidental errors. […]