Author Archives: Pearl

An English teacher finds himself fallen down the rabbit hole and stands now before the giant mushroom: “I mean that I teach poetry.” “I’m not surprised,” said the Caterpillar. “Poetry has a thing or two to learn. It has more feet than I do and they’re terribly difficult to keep track of.” A quote from […]

This Thursday the next edition of the A B Series brings Penn Kemp to town. Later this month is Clifton Joseph, John Sobol and Robert Priest come. Mid-May it’s Christian Bök who spoke and performed at the 2008 Canadian Literature symposium, which had a focus on the postmodern last year (and there’s a sound file […]

There was a Factory Reading at a reading at Saw Gallery March 26th. The winner of the PK Page Founders’ Award for 2009 is Shane Rhodes. He read from his newest poetry manuscript in progress, “The Air”. It’s a sometimes Eunoiaesque explorations of subsets of sounds, looking around at etymologies. His skill in using devices […]

Robert Brewer interviews Patricia Fargnoli, the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She says, “I only occasionally do simultaneous submissions […] more lately because I am 71 […] I can’t afford to wait a year to hear results anymore…especially since the competition is so fierce and rejection so frequent.”

Ross Priddle did a callout on issue #400 of 1cent which he and I are in (and he gives a full list of all who is).