Author Archives: Pearl

Sunday, October 3 at Collected Works Lorri Neilsen Glenn, Terry Ann Carter and Frances Boyle read at Collected Works – 2:00 p.m. Poet Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s new collection confronts the deaths of dear friends and family members, returns to her prairie childhood and youth, and engages hard, hard questions of mortality, and of existence in […]

My this-November’s spoken for but next year perhaps, the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, 2 days and 2 half days of haiku events near Seattle. It’d be for the knowledge and social. Sounds like a dauntingly cold place for that time of year even if things are indoors. It’d be grand to go one year. * At […]

On Oct 3, for part of a day, Carleton U is putting on short story and poetry class. Their writing contest is also on in a few days. (info at the same link.) Canadian Festival of Spoken Word is coming to Ottawa October 12. November 19th, at the Japanese Embassy is free event of music […]

Reading Poems of Fernando Pessoa and it’s lovely how it varies. They are letters to self. He’s visibly working things out. He hasn’t decided what the reader is to feel and delegates an emotional runnel to funnel the reader down. There are (so far) 26 pages that would be a pleasure to reread at retyping […]

When making a book trailer for a novel it can be parallel to a movie trailers. In other words, there is some pitched story with a tension point, a narrative arc that can be raided for the one-minute summary hook. A poem may have a story such as Heather Haley’s poem “Purple Lipstick.” It may […]