Author Archives: Pearl

Part of knowing and improving is to know what questions to ask. In editing, where to begin? Jason F jotted down every question that came to mind and posted them: Questions I ask when reviewing a design-in-progress at Signals vs. Noise. They work very well for editing poetry as well. Here are a few examples […]

In a Huffington Post interview, Marie Howe: MH: Well, Stanley [Kunitz] was a great friend. We were walking down Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge. This was in the fall, my brother had died that summer. Stanley asked me how I was doing, and I said, ‘I feel as if something has me in its mouth and […]

For the slump of day, I could eat, nap or do a 13 Thursday. For a taste the start of the 5th sentence from each on page 52: Flint & Feather by Charlotte Gray: Less malleable than his elder brother, Allen ran away to his grandparents house on the reserve Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, […]

Poetry is sensation’s verbal residue. If that residue is to be sticky it comes from emotions which travel faster than thought and are gummier.

Sept. 15th: (former Ottawa Poet Laureate) Patrick White & Roy MacSkimming Sept. 22nd: Alexi Zentner, Alison Pick, & Claudia Coutu Radmore Oct. 13th: Ken McGoogan & Laurie Lewis. Oct 27th: Zach Wells + hopefully, three Coach House writers: Cordelia Strube, Heather Birrell, and Matthew Tierney. Nov. 10th: Ronna Bloom & Maureen Scott Harris (Pedlar authors) […]