Author Archives: Pearl

5 magic books for the small press fair today. Some copies of them are even ready to go.

Ottawa small press book fair is coming again. When? Saturday, June 30, 2012, noon to 5:00 p.m. Where? Upstairs, Room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre at 320 Jack Purcell Lane, just off Elgin. Admission is free! I’ll have a few new titles from my micro-press including Avid Walls by Luminita Suse, Self-Portrait by […]

The South Townsville micro poetry journal has interviewed former in/words poet Peter Gibbon in Australia. Here’s part that struck me: Peter Gibbon: When I was an Ottawa resident, being a presence at readings was much easier because there was a more active poetry scene. There are good & bad things about that. As the political […]

On June 25th the Elmdale Tavern hosted the newly re-booting The Muses Reading Series. It started in 2007 and was for a while at Rasputin’s Cafe. The series took hiatus and is now back with its 10th instalment, with an eye to continuing quarterly, each time combining two acts of the 9 Greek Muses. Organizer […]

You can’t fully escape your own filters, but maybe you can expand yourself and your own understanding. I like the idea of journalism as poetry. The conscientious intensity and lack of dilution of poetry would improve the vagueness of journalism. The setting outside oneself, being less egocentric might correlate to the occupational hazard and outcome […]