Lifting text into new context to make a collage that adds up differently by the company its in. femininity: be responsiveness phone support has expired the apple extended plan can’t be purchased after 5 days complainers may make valid points but complaint comes not about surface happenings — not saying just to be saying something […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Story Avoidance or Tell Me Another One?
How can we remake the narrative of a poem and poet so that it isn’t a case of structurally “subject acts on an object?” Subject Verb Object is pervasive. Even in languages with different or flexible word order, our thought structure says in life and meaning and poem a) there must be agency in the […]
Solutions?
It’s always a tiny minority that get the signal’s crossed and smoking. On the sexual mores in publishing thing…would the solution be upping the percentage of overt ogling of male writers by women writers to balance things out in the culture? Women check out and rate males, but generally not within male earshot. Funny how […]
fw: Raise It
RaiseIt.ca is a new online magazine dedicated to covering, criticizing, supporting and elevating anything arts in Ottawa from the perspectives of local artists, promoters and community members. The name “Raise It” references the title of an iconic slam poem by Kevin Matthews (dubbed the uncle of Ottawa’s slam poetry community), a phrase that is now […]
Glimpsed In the Passing Parade
What’s today? Fried day, Herd’s day, Wends day, Toes day, or MmFun day? A Funday Poem by Amy Barlow is in part [read it all], Barefoot on the sidewalk/Deliberately stepping in dog poop just to feel the squish/and leaving human pawprints behind as she/heads for the library to read Ayn Rand/backwards Barlow’s participating in the […]