Author Archives: Pearl

A Crazy Man Thinks He’s Earnest in Paris: Meditations on a Brother (sample poem there), the newest collection by Terry Ann Carter, will be launched in a month at Mother Tongue Books at 1067 Bank St. Ottawa by Black Moss Press. There will be music by Beethoven, Sibelius, The Swing Era and Pink Floyd as […]

The 7th annual Canadian Festival of Spoken Word runs Oct 12-16th in Ottawa. 18 teams from across Canada have done run-offs over the last few months to be chosen to compete. Raise It interviews Nathanael Larochette, director of this year’s festival: When it comes down to it the spoken word slams and shows that we […]

We are looking for your original and unpublished short stories, poetry and creative nonfiction, in both official languages. First prize in all three categories is $6,000 and second prize is $4,000, courtesy of the Canada Council for the Arts. In addition, the winning texts are published in Air Canada’s enRoute magazine and on our website, […]

Nobuo Kubota at the AB series was part of the season 4 premiere. The sound poet performed to a house of over 4 dozen. It was a delightful play of sounds. (There’s a video of his past performance here, mouth rhythms). Each piece had a distinct mood and sound set. It was easy to distinguish […]

Did you see what Gillian said on the process of Arc’s Ekphrsis project? Some Poetry Candy at Collected Works. Reminder of the poetry readings there Sunday at 2 and Tuesday at 7:30.