Author Archives: Pearl

A good photo represents animated performance. That is a photo will report what is good for a photo and not be loyal to represent what is proportionally happening in poetry. Some poetry can’t be excerpted and convey a sense of what it is and how it works. Some performance has to be experienced rather than […]

There’s a new issue of World Haiku Review. Now online is the January 2011 issue. Among other things in the issue (reviews of anthologies and haibun) are new haiku in 3 categories: neo-classical (using kigo) and vanguard (including non-traditional subjects, moods) and shintai (new style which may bridge or be a hybrid of the other […]

Pivot Readings at the Press Club Featuring Jon Paul Fiorentino, Pearl Pirie and Carolyn Smart Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8 p.m. at the Press Club 850 Dundas Street West PWYC. — Jon Paul Fiorentino is a writer and editor. His first novel is Stripmalling (ECW, 2009) which was shortlisted for the 2009 Hugh MacLennan Award […]

Murray read a couple poems at the open mic. The second of which had a pun at the end that I was not swift enough to get before I heard the laughter from around the room. Grant shared some romantic and comic tanka. Guy shared memories of being in the military in Germany in the […]

Join us at the Dale Smith Gallery on Friday, February 11, from 7-10 p.m. to toast the opening of playlist, a massive body of work composed from lists of songs found on an iPod. Searched by keywords, the resulting works on paper playfully explore the whole range of human emotions that characterize popular music. They […]