Author Archives: Pearl

You know about This Ain’t The Rosedale Library? It is a small indie book store that got behind on its rent. There’s a movement to donate to see if it can float again. A Jane Reichhold talk. I’ve read her so often and heard her referenced but I never heard her speak nor saw her […]

[We now return to the regularly scheduled programming, joined in progress…] I suppose that’s the thing with imagist and story-driven poetry. The brain starts to paint scenes and not a blessed word can be retrieved that’s salient. I remember what I saw between my ear. I recall the experience of the poem, but how did […]

Defining terms, or “poetics taxonomy” People debate words. I’m used to arguments on what counts as poetry and haiku and the resulting bruised toes or public accept anyone’s self-nominated place and self-defining inclusion while no longer associating with that part of the fold, or else trying to educate that way of doing poetry into the […]

You know the sensation when you find really good poetry so you can finally fully exhale? It’s as if this is what your body had been waiting for and didn’t know it? Now that you’ve read and reread, you can end your day happily? It makes an Iota of difference: This little California letterpress place […]

PRECIPICe is out with contributors including: Lillian Allen, Phanuel Antwi, Kemeny Babineau, Kate Braid, Caitlin Burt, Rita Dahl, Amanda Earl, Roger Farr, Julia Fiedorczuk, Ryan Quinn Flanagan, katrine marie guldager, Linn Hansén, Niels Hav, Tytti Heikkinen, Martin Högström, Keith Inman, Silja Järventausta, Satu Kaikkonen, Jørgen Leth, Lee-Ann Liles, Angela Long, Niels Lyngsø, Bartłomiej Majzel, Esa […]