Author Archives: Pearl

The 2010 Pandora’s Poetry Awards are to acknowledge those who are lending energy that contributes to the quality of life and lift of the Vancouver literary community. We are privileged to bring to you those names that have been nominated in the Vancouver writing community. They are names that you have put forward. There were […]

SA Griffin is touring with a bomb. In news of his tour, it’s explained that he bought a Cold War-era bomb and is filling the metal with poems about peace. The idea is to create the constructive from the destructive. the poetry bomb securely fastened into the tour vanOriginally uploaded by buniwabbit (More tour photos) […]

Rengay is not the plural of renga. They’re both linked forms made using haiku and a 2 line connect to next haiku that run in a chain in a group or in pairs. Renga wants to hook and pivot without doubling back. Each shifts can be as in a ghazal. The connection might be tenuous […]

When I read from Taxonomies a couple years ago I was engaged with the format and the picture dictionary look it, but put off by skim vocabulary loaded with words like: precedes, mentality, pelagic, pugnacious, conspicuous symmetry. It looks, in formatting, like prose, which is fine. It scans formal. It looks like it comes from […]

Steven Heighton extended that memo to himself I linked to a couple days ago. It now includes these among others, 1 Could anyone else have written this thing? If Yes, start again. 4 In the long run, curiosity and stamina trump talent. 14 There’s nothing less enjoyable than writing well, because it means excising the […]