Author Archives: Pearl

OSI, Insomnia prompt in Somnia’s Song the Sheepish look at superstition, a pug’s glare at it: don’t you fail me. I have my lucky sock on. sleep is inevitable. the outcomes are all ad hoc. waking proves sleep like death proved you lived once. nah. the hammered thumb of rule: try and you fail. fail […]

Gillian Wallace won the Diana Brebner Award for 2009 with Crow, of the family Corvidae. The contest is open to any poet living in the National Capital Region who has not yet been published in book form. A reading was held at Collected Works on Feb 16th. It was a full little room with a […]

Rogue Stimulus on Parliament Hill! Feb 27th, 2010, at 2pm, join speakers, poets and performers together in a lighthearted protest against the prorogation of Parliament. Later that day: Gallery 101, upstairs at 301 1/2 Bank Street, 6 pm Stay at Gallery 101 after the launch for a poetry reading and concert from The AB Series […]

I got a piece of the Darrell Project, a fan-folded ephemera from Jim Knowles. It is an accordian pleated broadsheet/pamphlet with 7 poems. It runs towards flarf and around language. It is a cutting away from a corpus of language to leave behind suggestions and directions towards meaning and withdrawing back from it to some […]

Art Bar Poetry where you can hear it as live but gaps edited out. Nice to be able to hear again Rob Winger’s ghazals were up there last month. And part is an interview on writing.