Author Archives: Pearl

What is a writing Workshop? from St. Augustine’s confessions. “Conloqui et conridere et vicissim benevole obsequi, simul leger libros dulciloquos, simul nugari et simul honestari .” (“Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions,”) As Stephen Kuusisto adds there, “There’s […]

Rather than double-post I’ll point to the other blog: Leifso at Tree her new Brick Book and the issues it raises.

I’ve got a hankering for Emerald green. Looking at lit events in Ireland is exacerbating it. I’ll add Listowel Writers Week to my watch list. I can’t know if I want to attend yet because they don’t release their schedule until April. At least Montreal’s Blue Metropolis has their schedule up. So does Ottawa’s writers […]

Susan McMaster was the first poet to launch the new section of the Tree reading series where 10 minutes goes to someone to do a mini-craft talk. She did a poetic overview, a retrospective of her voice and focus as it developed and changes. She said that as she goes on her sense of poetics […]

Jilly points out that March is Small Press Month, for the 13th year apparently. What better time than for the government to announce cutting funding to all magazines that have less than 5000 subscribers. A coalition to talk back at that notion is forming. History repeats peats peats, bogs, burns, settles, grows, repeats. We run […]