Author Archives: Pearl

Poets signing their books at the OIWF — Suzanne Buffam with The Irrationalist, Steven Heighton with Patient Frame and Michael Lista with Bloom. There was laughter during Buffam’s reading, in the intro, and in the body of poems. She introduced herself by relating that one reader condescended to say that it wasn’t as enjoyable as […]

The results are in and it’s a tie. Billy says And yes, I did call the election a few hours early but with these 2 great poets locked in a photo finish and me with a real day job to go to early in the morning… Well, I made the rules and I can bend […]

A picture taken just before the April 26th OIWF poetry night reading. Here is the first-prize winner of the Bywords/Think Ink Secondary School poetry contest: Christine Klippenstein, Grade 12, Canterbury High School. She wrote a poem about cooling tea, inspired by Stephanie Bolster’s Two Bowls of Milk. It shows promise beyond her years according to […]

Are you twitter-practiced? Want to add a thought of that length to Concordia’s Tickertape Project? [Aaaaaand, I forgot to press post yesterday. Even with this retro-posting I missed 3 poetry month days entirely. Ah, rules and their breaking.] What else? Quarc, no quirks? Art and Science call issue. Have you voted for Sina Queyras as […]

The self-imposed challenge of a thought on poems a day for April has faltered but there’s this which spurts fun I wouldn’t want to miss mention of: TLHOB-QO’ JA’-QO’ A Contemporary Klingon Lyric in Traditional Form by Hugh Tribbey. And hopes for write ups of poet-y things still when my energy rallies after fest.