Author Archives: Pearl

Woo! A first. My poetry collection reviewed by Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston, Pearl Pirie’s first collection of poetry, Been Shed Bore, is a dance with language There is room in this world for the serious poetry built out of timber and stone. And there is also room in this world for poetry that gathers in clouds and […]

Two workshops with Ronnie R. Brown remain in the drop-in-series on poetic craft with the Tree reading series. She has been publishing poems for decades and is an experienced workshop leader with years of teaching poetry in classrooms. Her Nov. 9th workshop will be on “a winning title — finding the best title to lure […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Acorn-Plantos Committee is pleased to announce the short list of those authors under consideration for the 2010 Award for People’s Poetry. They are, in alphabetical order: GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE, I&I (Goose Lane Editions) ANDREAS GRIPP, Anathema: Poems selected & New (Harmonia Press) SUSAN MCMASTER, crossing arcs (Black Moss Press) CHRIS PANNELL, […]

This book of my poems launches on Sunday at 5 p.m. at Swizzles, 246 Queen Street, downstairs. The music will be by Call Me Katie with guitar, cello and violin, vocals that are sweet. I’ll be reading with Bernadette Wagner and with a catapult on hand, well, probably under the hand, but should be loads […]

Geist’s Jack Pine Sonnet long list has 10 finalists: Gratitude (Phoebe Wang), Boulez con ducts Bluebeard, (Eleonore Schonmaier), Gyre (LM Rochefort), Secondhand (Bardia Sinaee), The First Move (Robyn Jeffrey), Holland Marsh (Stefan Rinas), Spring Ice (Ken Haigh), Stream (Fiona Lam), Smithereens (Serena McArter), and A Large Stake (Monica Kidd). Give your feedback there.