Author Archives: Pearl

Once, years ago, I heard someone say that it is an act of respect for your own material to have it memorized. I can’t remember who stated it but I recall the challenge was put forward that if you, as the writer, won’t take that time with it, why should the audience? At the Guerrilla […]

Robyn Sarah is Writer in residence at U of O for fall 2010. watch me edit: introducing yourself is the latest post into Gillian’s editing process. Interview with Nomados. Good to get more background. They have 30 titles out already. Huh. Tiny books of 8 small pages from one sheet, and Favorite 500 words tiny […]

John Goodman has written an essay for AngelHouse Press on Obscurity in Poetry but it takes a fast-forward run thru the last millennium of writing. The 11 pages make for informative reading… Here are some teaser snippets: After the Norman invasion of England under William the Conqueror in 1066 and the subsequent reigns of the […]

Do you set your poems to videos? Heather Haley has extended the call for submissions: Due to popular demand and a fair bit of pleading, I’ve moved the deadline up. Please help spread the word/call for entries and send in your videopoem by Sept. 1, 2010. See The Voice: VISIBLE VERSE 10th Anniversary Celebration & […]

Underway or on the way down the mental hatch: sylvia legris, Nerve Squall (Coach House, 2007) Paul Wilson, The Long Landscape (Coteau Books, 1999) John B. Lee, Variations on Herb (Brick Books, 1993) Gerald Hill, The Man from Saskachewan (Coteau Books, 2001) John Lent, Cantilvered Songs (Thistledown Press, 2009) Bernadette Wagner, this hot place (Thistledown […]