Author Archives: Pearl

Todd Swift of Speaking of Poems has a 12-screen interview between himself, rob mclennan and Marilyn Bowering pondering The Art and the Agony of the Poetry Anthology. There is a problem of choosing. Every choice is an omission displacing another option. It’s a kind of tyranny. You anthologize what you know about and like, therefore […]

Tonight’s Literary Landscape show features Sandra Ridley, Jennifer Londry and the Hagios folk, dispatches from the launch of their books in Saskatoon and Winnipeg. at 6:30 PM, CKCU 93.1, or online.

Some brave volunteers demonstrated juggling. Juggling is a metaphor for haiku; you try to balance something close to you and something high up. One line of haiku is cast high, the second low and the third is the hard one to involve and keep everything moving in the air in an interesting way without something […]

Drifting thru my 1958 edition of John Donne: Selected Poems. The same 1635 edition is online as well. It’s remarkable how much carries over the 400 year gap. I wonder what that means about culturally embedded and stylistics tweaks. How can I hear his voice more readily than a contemporary who has more aggregate culture, […]

The more one knows, the more one doesn’t know and the former increases more of less linearly and the latter exponentially. My dad used to say, I’ve never heard of him, as if that were the final word proving the person’s lack of existence, or lack of merit. Such egocentrism can be a hard confinement […]