Author Archives: Pearl

Michael, the head of SPAO, introduced rob mclennan who curated the poets for the Call and Response Project. One of the other initiators of the project, Khalia Scott couldn’t attend the final reading of 7 poets reacting to the photos of 7 photographers. rob also wrapped up the series by doing the reactions to last […]

Peace and Environmental News is a bimonthly print and web newspaper put out by The Peace and Environment Resource Centre (PERC) is one of Ottawa’s longest-standing grassroots organizations. It champions all the common sense things that aren’t common enough like energy efficiency, cycling, saying no to pesticides and yes to better food network distribution, that […]

Someone on twitter suggested as a prompt: use Wordnik’s Random Word of the Day. Click for the next a few time and see if a few in a sequence don’t spark a poem. Good way to expand vocabulary too. Don’t miss if you have so far, the Proust Questionnaire with Christine McNair. (One of the […]

The American Embassy sponsored a lunchtime reading at the Ottawa Public Library this week. The Poet Laureate of Vermont Sydney Lea was one half of the duel of Dueling Poets with John B Lee, an event done in cooperation with the LCP. I believe Lea’s pictured here reading from his 2nd to newest poetry collection, […]

I do love getting a book, and getting a book signed. This is the ever delightful Lisa Pasold signing Any Bright Horse (Frontenac House Poetry, 2012) which is still pre-release. It get officially launched this fall. Here’s a couple snippets for you from p. 50, a section which is a walk thru museum corridors and […]