Author Archives: Pearl

It’s only a month until the Haiku Canada Weekend in Montreal. I’ve been reading How To Haiku, edited by Bruce Ross. It’s good to brush up since the brain drifts off models. It’s easy to slip off down short-cuts or along interesting sideroads. I have a mental habit of insisting on wedging in playtime. Word […]

Two Gaspereau poets had a full room at the Plan 99 series for their April 17 reading. On May 29th will be the next book launches at Plan 99 with Jennifer Londry and other Hagios poet, Sandra Ridley Johanna Skibsrud did the Ottawa launch of her book “I Do Not Think that I Could Love […]

New Pages has compiled a list of literary contests, American and Canadian with deadline and details. It’s pretty comprehensive. [via JimK] A contest is, by nature, an artificial way to create hundreds who lose and one who wins. (Or less charitably, hundreds of losers and one winner.) On the other hand, it’s a gamble, a […]

At Bookish Us Jessi asked last fall, Why Don’t Aspiring Writers read more literary magazines?” and her answer was: price and size, You can subscribe to Harper’s for around $17, which includes 12 issues; a subscription to Crazyhorse, one of my favorite lit mags, is $16 and includes two issues. […] I just can’t personally […]

Billy “the Blogging Poet” Jones closed nominations for the 5th year. Past English Poet Laureates of the Blogosphere were: Ron Silliman, Amy King, Tony Brown and Jilly Dybka. This year there are about 2 dozen nominees. The poetry blog world is in many and good hands. A lot of new names. Explore the field below… […]