Author Archives: Pearl

Platonic ideals are not actually out there in the ether past all the relativism. Especially if you believe yourself, one gets in trouble with categorical statements. They can take an eye out with their gestures. The tumble to work out rules is fine so long as we all remember it’s a bit of nonsense to […]

Read all the details on the Cartwheels Chapbook. Deadline Nov. 1. Production in 2011.

Should poetry transform itself as it develops? Or the reader? Or the writer? If one is repeating the same theme and tone and skills, is there refinement? Is it radical enough? Is it slow and fine-tuned enough to not miss something key. Is it a kind of stammer, placeholder, affirming but does it need to […]

This survey Charles Trumbull did is from 2001 but is new to me: Haikuworld Survey of Haiku Journals. It asked 91 haikuist for responses on 30 haiku journals. btw, I believe that the next Matrix is looking at haiku and family forms.

Sometimes humour is the taste of the day but a narrow band that is dark, ironic, superior, not too broad nor cerebral. Kept inside the tidy vinyl-extruded fences. What’s it doing there? It polices and reinforces boundaries and norms, is an act of control thru distance, vents frustration, anger or sadness. Is all humour that? […]