Author Archives: Pearl

Following Al Purdy’s death in 2001, The Al Purdy A-Frame Trust was formed in order to save the poet’s home in Ameliasburgh, Ontario from the wrecking ball by transforming it into a writer-in-residence retreat. This retreat will offer Canadian authors and critics a secluded, historical setting in which to develop the manuscripts that will shape […]

as we descend past story and inventory and word into the shape almost words suggest, like a micro facial expression of mood that only gut and camera can catch. More poetry photos and excepts at humanyms.

Ruth Foley does ghazals using the constant word at end of line variation that is a shout out to missing Italy. Who’s this person? She runs Cider Press, a Journal of Contemporary Poetry Press release of helping this master visual poet in need, jwcurry. Joseph Massey’s latest out, Areas of Fog (soon to get another […]

As part of the rejigging of Tree reading series, the feature readers are going to go on youtube where they can be archived and viewed from wherever poetry wants to be seen. There will be theory talks before the feature reader. Susan McMaster did the first, I did the most recent one [see pic insert]. […]

Dusty Owl has the reading series (Next up, this Sunday: Gregoire). It also has this: Dusty Owl Workshop Series: Emerging writers and poets get the chance to work with local, published authors from a variety of exciting genres (ex. spoken word, poetic documentary, mystery writing…etc). Be sure to take advantage of the early bird rate […]