Gee, Tightrope Books gave quite the endorsement in its shout out about here: Pearl’s blog is fun and easy to read, while always being informative. With snippits from the works she reviews and pictures of others, this blog is entertaining and useful. While some of her reviews are personal opinion, Pearl is sharp and observant […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Leaps
It’s too easy to make the play of d o w n or d r o p t r ip and f a _ _ are still all redundant in a way, the verb or adverb enacting itself. Marlene’s looks elegantly simple and hard to do. While people in scrabble turn cow into cows or […]
Paul Tyler Clip and Thoughts on Poetry, Readings
Paul Tyler at the Plan 99 Series in April 2010 reading “Manitoba Maple”, a poem from his new book from Gaspereau Press, “A Short History of Forgetting“. (If this subject feels familiar, I mentioned this reading before.) Readings can be nerve-wracking, whether you’ve done it a dozen times or hundreds, because the random element of […]
How to Write
I have seen a few people who like myself who initially saw the title and grabbed it, then set it down puzzled and moved on immediately As a sort of conceptual poetry, it has two layers: the immediate payoff and the wtf is this that opens up questions of process and authorship. It’s a book […]
Haiku of Blossoms
Enter two poems for free: May 31 is the deadline for the 2010 Haiku Invitational sponsored by the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. Michael Dylan Welch is serving as judge. If you were thinking of going to the national haiku get together in Montreal, it’s not too late…May 21st weekend. Around 70 people have registered already. […]