Author Archives: Pearl

Gender makes the difference you want it to… and we can dismiss it at that. Yet there are patterns of visibility in writing. How to account for those? Is it just market demand? Men like to read men and women like to read men? 4 years ago I did a spot check of gender represented […]

A Lemon Hound interview with Don Share of Poetry Magazine where he says, “Some conventional-looking poems are deeply, wonderfully subversive, while some ostensibly experimental work is actually thoroughly conventional.” and “If you put a poem or a book in front of me, I want to read it and think about it: I want to see […]

The pre-press fair reading was reasonably well attended with a couple dozen people. Lisa Pasold — wonderful articulate lady — was reading from the start of her novel Rats of Las Vegas. (A compelling sounding book.) She also read from her chapbook, being signed below, Michael Dennis (pictured) read from his recent Coming Ashore on […]

Self-Expression Through Poetry Plunge into the unknown with this dynamic and inspiring opportunity for self-expression! Fun games and insightful exercises. Dive into your own creative process, coming up with tools and tips for writing, improvisation and ‘freestyling’, interpretation, and voice. Shenkman Arts Centre Wed 7-8:30 pm Sep 23-Nov 25 $262.50 420126 Jan 20-Mar 31 $262.50 […]

“What follows is my subjective analysis of a statistically insignificant data set.” ~ Robert Peake in the death of loftiness in poetry. His poll results is neat. It comes as a variant of what is life, what is art. Is life art and the distinction being label? How does one reward another for living in […]