Author Archives: Pearl

We’re sad to share the news that the owners of mother tongue books have decided to close the store after its 18-year run. But the doors won’t close for good before we all get to celebrate its achievements and the role it has played in our community. mother tongue will be hosting a series of […]

Noah Cicero in the discussion of New Sincerity, at HTML Giant said in comments something particularly articulate, or perhaps that is to say, something I can hear particularly well. if a person has an ironic personality that constantly sees the ambiguous nature of the universe, then they will always be unsure if they are thinking, […]

Sunday, June 24, 3 pm, The Elmdale House Tavern The Dusty Owl Reading Series – Pilgrimage If you’ve ever spent any time around the Zytveld’s, the hosts and founders of The Dusty Owl Reading Series, chances are good – very good in fact – that you would have heard them going on (and on) about […]

Livejournal importing made easy. No kidding. When I came over I was manually copying and pasting posts to WP until I got bored. The importer went back to 2005, 400-odd posts in seconds. Crazy-good.

June 22, 2012, 7pm Call and Response, SPAO Season-end reading with the participants of the year’s ekphrasis photography-word project at SPAO’s Red Wall Gallery, 168 Dalhousie Ave, Ottawa. Readings by Pearl Pirie, Amanda Earl, Monty Reid, Sandra Ridley, Christine McNair, Claudia Coutu Radmore and rob mclennan. June 25, 2012, 7-9pm The Relaunch of The Muses […]