Author Archives: Pearl

Organized to satisfy the ever-increasing audience for poetry in Ottawa and across the country, VERSeFest is being staged by a collective of 14 Ottawa poetry groups (VERSe Ottawa), representing the wide spectrum of written and spoken word—page and stage—in a series of readings, performances (including a slam competition and a bilingual showcase), workshops, and discussions. […]

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 8pm-10pm, The Press Club, 850 Dundas Street West, Toronto Admission is free. The Pivot in February: Pearl Pirie, reading from Been Shed Bore (Chaudiere Books) alongside Carolyn Smart (Hooked, Brick) + Adam Seelig (Every Day in the Morning (Slow), New Star Books) If you’re in the Toronto area, hope I can […]

Alison Pick (Far to Go, Anansi) and Peter Richardson (Sympathy for the Couriers, Vehicule) read at Tree at 8 pm tonight. Before that, 6:45 pm in the same Library Room, Floor 2A of the Arts Court Building I’ll be doing the first of 4 workshops on editing down poems. If there is a dead poet […]

The deadline for the annual Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry is January 31, 2011. Do you have a poetry manuscript just waiting for the right opportunity? Do you know a Canadian poet who deserves to be published, but hasn’t managed more than one or two books yet? This may be your dream come true! […]

Michael Dylan Welch is spearheading NaHaiWriMo, or, National Haiku Writing Month. Write one haiku a day for the month of February! Why February? Because it’s the shortest month—for the world’s shortest form of poetry. Join poets around the world who pledge to write at least one haiku a day during NaHaiWriMo, the shortest month of […]