Author Archives: Pearl

It’s all open mic tonight at Tree with a bonus speaker Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, David Starkey, to kick off the July 13th evening at 8 o’clock. The main reading begins each time with a reading in tribute to a local or world poet who has passed on. There’s one or two open […]

[via Marrty] Deadline October 1, 2010. For the follow-up to My Diva, the Lambda-nominated essay anthology. Looking for poems (1-2 pages in length) that explore the relationship between strong female icons and gay men. Looking for all kinds of DIVAS: singers, actresses, comics, chefs, politicians, writers, visual artists, athletes, scientists, fashion models … Broadway, Opera, […]

The events and lineup for the Dodge Poetry Festival is being announced. So far: Kathleen Graber, Penny Harter, Rachel Hadas, Santee Frazier, Rita Dove, Kwame Dawes Billy Collins, Kay Ryan, Michael Cirelli, Mark Strand and Rigoberto González. Oct. 7-10th they’re back! For those keeping track, it was announced to be a victim of its own […]

A Sea of Alone: Poems for Alfred Hitchcock (Dark Scribe Press, 2010) is edited Christopher Conlon. The anthology is due to release this fall. It will contain poems by two local writers: Deborah-Anne Tunney and Frances Boyle.

Poetry for Peace is the subject of a CBC podcast. The Nova Scotian and former poet laureate Lorri Neilsen Glen (Lost Gospels) discusses how poetry can help us build a culture of peace. She is reading as part of the peace conference: Being the Change, held in Halifax until the 10th. She says, “I’m anti-war […]