Curt rudely brief briefly rude Nelson Ball from Fingerprinting Inkoperated, 1998) This has been sitting at my desk for years. It reminds of the ephemeral, instructs on letting go.
Author Archives: Pearl
Nelson Ball Short List
Lines – Cameron Anstee (St. Andrew Books) wind – Guy Ewing (Puddles of Sky Press) a grain of sand – Helen Hajnoczky (above/ground press) A Number of Stunning Attacks – Jessi MacEachern (Invisible Publishing) Rain’s Small Gestures – Pearl Pirie (Apt. 9 Press) Last year the finalist was announced mid-December.
Sabrina Benaim
Watch the I Don’t Understand episode with poet and author of “I Love You, Call Me Back” Sabrina Benaim. That’s the slam poet that went viral as a winner of the 2014 Toronto Poetry Slam. She is best known for her poem “Explaining My Depression To My Mother” which was apparently 8 years ago. She gives a wonderful […]
Village Poet
I had the pleasure of being on library shift with Wakefield’s Village poet emeritus, Phil Cohen. Phil started in New York City, went to MIT in engineering, and somehow ended up Quebec by 1984. {…] real people here too on the other side of the man made wall.Odd isn’t it,That whenever I slow downI find […]
Loved Then, Loved Now: In Jesus
That as a post title frankly makes me nervous but it is what it is, a pattern of structure for the title. Confirmation Bias, I knew it would be My soul is crushed. There is no light. I can not see. I cannot fight. But what I know, must be right, ever only specious. my […]