Author Archives: Pearl

Howsabout that. 3 poems by me at This Magazine, online and everything.

Under the policy of not wasting paper, wouldn’t it be nice to send poems by email. Silk Road set up an online submission managing system and they’re not the only ones. Here are other poetry magazines that take online submissions. [hat tip to Robert Peake]

It would be oversimplifying to say the books have a great deal in common more than being recent and in my head simultaneously but cross-connections spontaneously form for our brains are pattern-makers. The Best of It: New and Selected, Kay Ryan (Grove Press, 2010), p. 92, “Connections” Connections lie in wait— something that in the […]

Here’s John picture of the ReLit Winners 2010, Kenneth Harvey and the new bearers of the rings: Stuart Ross for short fiction: Buying Cigarettes for the Dog (Freehand), Gillian Jerome for poetry: Red Nest, (Nightwood) and Michael Kenyon for novel: The Beautiful Children, (Thistledown). The venue (The Barley Mow) was packed last night and each […]

Writers Fest, the main events for fall kick off today. Relit Awards with John Lavery’s classical guitar as music, among other things. Mental note: make it to Eden Mills next September if it can be wrangled at all. Someone else’s gorgeous pictures of Dodge. See all the titles submitted for the Governor General’s Award. Those […]