Author Archives: Pearl

Monty Reid read new poems from his wonderful parasite poem series which describe the lives of some of these thousands of species of the microcosms inside our bodies. He also read from what he never reads from because he says the poems are too short, Sweetheart of Mine (BookThug) [spun from Bluegrass songs] and from […]

The Ottawa Small Press Fair is coming Nov 28 with the traditional pre-press reading Nov 27th, this time with Michael Dennis (Ottawa), Spencer Gordon (Toronto), Michelle Desbarats (Ottawa), Garry Thomas Morse (newly in Ottawa) & Lisa Pasold (Toronto)

The Tree reading tonight will be at 8 pm with Lisa Robertson and Monty Reid but from 6:45-7:45 I’ll be giving a workshop on poetry. The next workshop will be in 2 weeks will be the first of a 4 session cycle with Sandra Ridley. Facilitators will rotate over the year so that the catalyst […]

Margaret Malloch Zielinski (getting ready to read) with Cathy playing the part of Steve and Amanda for host of the day since both were too ill to make it. (If you want to send Get Well cards to Amanda, let me know and I can tell you where to send them.) Book angel Christine stands […]

The way I think of the way a line spacing work is matter of timing. There are all kinds of pauses of different kinds and lengths. For a bit of grammar to end, it causes a pause. For a grammatical phrase to end mid-line in a caesura gives a beat of a pause with no […]