Author Archives: Pearl

The bpNichol Chapbook Award shortlist is: Aaron Tucker, Apartments, The Emergency Response Unit Mark Callanan, Sea Legend, Frog Hollow Press Larisssa Lai, Eggs in the Basement, Nomados Alisha Piercy, you have hair like flags, flags that point in many directions at once but cannot pinpoint land when lost at sea, Your Lips To Mine Press […]

I don’t have time for this poem. Slot in other words for poem: person, moment. What does that show? Now leave out the slot. What is the essential aspect? Is it the object of the subject? Why the restlessness? Where is one speculatively rushing to? What is one doing to oneself by such dismissal of […]

Part of the conference was a walk up Mont Royal for fellowship, exercise and maybe inspiration of some haiku. The group spread out. The park inspector wanted to know why were sitting there. The talks and workshops and genko walk during the day were complemented by renku nights that ran to about 2 a.m. People […]

ARMS UNFAIR – Ottawa, June 2, 2010, noon till 7 pm Poets from Montreal and Ottawa will read outside the main gates of Lansdowne Park in Ottawa at noon on Wednesday June 2 to protest the Canadian manufacture and sale of weapons, ammunition and military components. CANSEC is returning to Ottawa City property this spring […]

What kind of poem do you want to see in the world? Commission it and ryan fitzpatrick will write it.