Author Archives: Pearl

Generative Poetics Techniques: Shaking Up Your Practice The more tools in the box, the better. The more experience, the more automatically we can grab the right tool for most effective manipulation and pleasure of our readers/listening. We each have our pet subjects, syntax, stanza shapes. How to not stand in our own way? Poetry is […]

4 days: VERSeFest, Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival, returns for its fourteenth year. Poets/performers will have copies of their books/chapbooks/cds on hand to sell. Please support them directly! Thursday, March 21, 2024: Avant-Garde Bar, 135 Besserer Street, 7pmAnita Lahey, Monty Reid, Marjorie Silverman, & Laila Malik    hosted by Jennifer Baker / Arc Poetry Magazine,Daniel Groleau Londry, nina […]

I’ve got 2 workshops coming in April. One online, one in person in Wakefield. Check them out.

There was a fantastic open mic, even if it took a little coaxing to break the shell of shyness off. Behind, you can see the gift bags of cookies I made up, some gluten free, some gluten-rich each with a poem from Adding Up to This attached. I made 60 or cookies (gingerbread, freezer cookies and […]

The chapbook A Couple Sumarians will get a launch in Wakefield Valentine’s day week. Thursday Feb 15th, 7pm at Wakefield Public Library at the Poetea series. More details to come but wanted y’all to be the first to know.