Author Archives: Pearl

City of Ottawa for the spring session has a set of Writers in the Community sessions. They have 4 different focuses for the 3 hour workshops this May: Ian Roy, Drawing a Short Story on May 1st Sandra Ridley, From One Poem to Many: Approaches To Developing A Body of Work on May 8th Richard […]

There’s a 2010 Poetry Book giveaway at Book of Kells with about 84 free books & 2 free year subscriptions to Crab Creek Review. The idea is to share what you love — one must be written by someone not you. April 10th is the cutoff for participants as givers in this. After that you […]

On March 23rd there was panel discussion on Meaning at the Tree Reading Series of Sina Queyras, Rob Winger, Susan McMaster and Erín Moure. (A better picture is John W MacDonald’s here] Here are some gleanings from my jottings. (No vid of the event went online yet.) Susan said the essential quality of poetry is […]

This is Visual Poetry has an online catalogue of the new full-color chapbook series. If you’re not familiar this is great overview. If you are familiar, new work by people you know. Speaking of people known and not (terrible segue) you’ve seen the Griffin list? Lastly, scans of the Haiku Canada 10th Anniversary Holographic Anthology […]

A next installment of small press publisher interviewers is on Apt 9 Press where the gravity of love of things is talked about. People naturally take a roll and a role to what they care about, I think these communities always move between cities, between writers and publishers. If you care about the chapbook form, […]