Author Archives: Pearl

If you have time to chatter Read books If you have time to read Walk into mountain, desert and ocean If you have time to walk Sing Songs and dance If you have time to dance Sit quietly, you Happy Lucky Idiot — Nanao Sakaki. A most interesting fellow whose poems were sometimes about the […]

Purdyfest, another Dam Poetry Reading at the dam in Marmora, full of easy goingness, passes of readers sharing things. Low lying fog in the rolling hills at sunset as we arrived to camp out at the river. Jim Larwill, camp counsellor by the Shaman Shack of Zen River From the flet (tree platform) looking back […]

Subject: Schedule for Purdy Country Literary Festival #3 (PurdyFest) July 19/09 Here’s the schedule for our third annual Purdy Country Literary Festival (PurdyFest). PurdyFests celebrate the Canadian People’s Poetry of such poets as Milton Acorn and Al Purdy. PurdyFests also celebrate the ruggedly beautiful “Country North of Belleville”, immortalized by Purdy in this beloved poem. […]

The Darwinian Poetry Generator is still going. here’s the idea: starting with a whole bunch (specifically 1,200) randomly generated groups of words (our “poems”), we are going to subject them to a form of natural selection, killing off the “bad” ones and breeding the “good” ones with each other. If enough generations go by, and […]

The Bywords Quarterly Journal launched an issue today, July 19 at the newly renovated Swizzles. John Gillies provided musical entertainment and readers included Stephanie Farrington, Kerri Powers, Shawn MacMillan and Mark Sokolowski. One poet dedicated his poem to his girlfriend who then waved a happy hand and identified herself. After his love poem she met […]