Author Archives: Pearl

I cleaned off my desk. (Stacking on floor in categories counts as cleaning, right?) Only 39 books, not including chapbooks, including novels, non-fiction, travel as well as poetry. (Last clean up, it was 63 books.) The tricky bit with making a snapshot list of what I’m reading is getting lost in the next book I […]

Our haiku group had its summer meeting June 27 with an exchange of haiku. The summer broadsheet had haiku from Ottawa members of the Kado. Grant listens as Michael Montreuil reads haibun from his newly launched chapbook “Last Away Tournament”, put out by Bondi Studios. Here Claudia listens in the circle as Sheila took her […]

A pair of performances by Paul Dutton was the conclusion of this season’s AB Series. It will be back in the fall with the Be Blank Consort, a group of American sound poets who have been performing together for 8 years. I made some mention of Dutton being in town at 40 Word Year and […]

Another small press fair has come and gone. Realized after how few photos I took. Was too busy talking. The small press fair in Ottawa seemed to have a constant thru traffic. Late in the day the guitar passed around thru a few hands including Laurie Fuhr’s and various people were serenaded. Laurie Fuhr read […]

Oni the Haitian Sensation with Dusty Owl workshop organizer Sean Zio. She gave a workshop May 31. Her talk was 2/3 autobiography. She’s had a varied life from qualifying for the Olympic handball team to touring with varsity badminton to becoming a single mom in a dodgy relationship in a impoverished part of LA. She […]