Author Archives: Pearl

It’s been a while since I posted any drafts so here are two of the week: working my way back to om from doom what rises in time? the rage in courage. it’s enough to lug the concerns of the living without adding on the burdens of the dead how I halo the jawbones their […]

Mia Celeste‘s had a list of 13 questions about writing habit. Taking that here: Where do you write? Anywhere to draft or compose. Back of hand or envelope not recommended. To do later edits, my office, usually digitally. Substantial edits on paper then back to computer and then paper and so on. Quick. Go to […]

I was pondering, perhaps as usual, Poetry “shouldn’t be” about feelings, but doings. Poems can be feelings and stories, but can extend past that. It can about what the poem does, not what it says. Yet, here’s the new stumbling block, when I ask after friends I don’t seek to learn about doings as an […]

Saw what Brenda’s reading so here’s my this week. Wow, it took me 3 years to get to The Factory Voice by Jeanette Lynes. And that’s with hearing it at First Edition, and being impressed at the distinct vivid dialogues. But then, I’m hesitant with novels. So many pages. But then when reading collected works […]

A free 10-week ModPo course using PennSound, the Kelly Writers House, and Jacket2’s PoemTalk. That’s a 20-minute overview of the course by U of Penn Prof Al Filreis. I describe the course chapter by chapter, and then I introduce several denizens of the Kelly Writers House on Penn’s campus. These are the people you’ll be […]