Author Archives: Pearl

For OSI prompt: Reign a sestina with sadistic playful line end word choice. what will be put away all the tension, pulled out to skin, has left. under threat of strange, let’s get soaked in rain. fragile satins chill. make do. old denim, faded, rust-stained, is closet-lining. fold of wire hangers nipple shoulders, regret stretches. […]

The story centers around a girl named Alberta. It is a story told thru snagged vignettes of a girl growing up thru the first two years after her father’s death thru new home life and new school. p. 60 Long after her classmates reduced her to the girl with the dead father, she held it. […]

For those who missed the last tree and subsequent announcements, Tree is shaking again. The unrestricted open mic is back until at least August. You no longer have to be published by particular publishers to read at the “open mic”. And there will be two prizes…the Origami Crane for best poem of open mic…won last […]

It’s been a year since Joseph Massey‘s Areas of Fog There’s a sudden upsurge in the amount of Joseph Massey…he interviewed Rae Armantrout and has two new chapbooks coincidentally coming out at the same time Exit North from BookThug and Mock Orange from Longhouse. The poems are characteristically minimal in Exit North. The palette like […]

Natalie Zina Walschots reads Supervillains at the Mercury Lounge on the 7th. (Link has an audio interview). And here is her postcard music reviews. And a month and a half after that, it’s the pre-small press reading where I’ll be reading as well and launching my new chapbook from AngelHouse Press: over my dead corpus. […]