Author Archives: Pearl

There’s a new online space called WILLA i.e. Women in Letters and Literary Art. Fresh up is Amy King who is following up a decade later on Ursula K Le Guin’s 1999 talk, “Award and Gender,” in which she tallied up the historical counts of many major literary awards. It is included in her collection […]

morning lawn soil boils these up, sprung from and to life the larvae of June bugs are what the scolded dog dug for with her head-tossed glee, snapping more air than bodies. no necks to break with a shake. they are not of this world yet, lit to be moons for earthworms what of this […]

What you don’t say has a power. What you can’t talk about, but do gives self and writing a power. Perhaps in part because of how it sounds secret or respectful even if it trounces because there’s still a pulled punch and compelling small-motioned animation, an attention to detail, an infusing of a mood from […]

Marcus McCann nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award for his book Soft Where. Here’s part of a poem from p. 30 called Fake Spring The mud-sucked foot, a popped cork, the hill we slicked, build a stick fence on — sweet spot, spit abnegated, againable, socks of mound flour, 200 lbs, a ton, wet a […]

I am thinking that instead of doing a new poem a day for NaPoWriMo that I’ll refuel. I’m about tapped for drafts. Time to let wellsprings refill the aquifer. I’ll set aside time each day to reflect with no intention towards poem, only the observation itself. Or look on a poem and share what I […]