Author Archives: Pearl

I put this out on freebee table at the small press fair…. gut spannering in a crowded room of the head i) if clothes would wash themselves: watch those limbs animated moments are seldom conveniently timed: ticks abandon your “self”: the lack is how the night gets in under the sunset over the ribcage: hair […]

Friday, November 27, 2009; doors 7pm, reading 7:30pm with 5 readings by: Michael Dennis is an Ottawa poet with several books to his credit, most recently Coming Ashore On Fire from Burnt Wine Press. Michelle Desbarats has had work appearing in Arc Magazine, Decalogue, Transpoetry, Burnt Toast, Speak!, Meltwater Review, and on CBC Radio and […]

Join Master of Ceremonies and host Rob Winger for a Night of Poetry featuring the Modern Poetry Collection housed in the Archives and Research Collections of the Carleton University Library. Listen to poetry readings by poets Michelle Desbarats and Armand Ruffo. View material from the collection while mingling with other poetry enthusiasts from the university […]

MJ Carson is succinct about the basics: “Don’t bore me, have something to say and put some amount of craft into it. Is that too much to ask of a poet?” That’s from the discussion afloat in the Amazon forum of what do you hate in a poem?. The phrase “mispunctuated prose” was tossed around […]

You can’t help but frame a scene in words or in art. Something is included. Something is left out. Whether that is a scene of order or disorder, narrative or anti-narrative something is presented. We saw on travels a famous statue and being with memory I have, I don’t remember the sculpture or artist. I […]