Author Archives: Pearl

Several years ago I hears the words come out my mouth “I’m yelling at you because I care” (the follow-up realization that it wasn’t the case, that I’d had my hot buttons successfully pushed is another story of that ex-friend) however there’s some truth in that what makes one angry, what one is reactive about […]

“Cultural leaders have come together to announce a massive poetry buyout: leveraged and unsecured poems, poetry derivatives, delinquent poems, and subprime poems will be removed from circulation in the biggest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. We believe the plan is a comprehensive approach to relieving the stresses on our literary institutions and markets. Let […]

I’m a couple weeks behind the curve but this year’s Lampman Scott Award finalists are announced: Nadine McInnis for Two Hemispheres (Brick Books) about a woman’s insane asylum inmates who read at the Decalogue launch. Michael Blouin for I’m not going to lie to you (Pedlar Press) which were part of his Factory series reading […]

Evidence: The Ottawa City Project is the exhibit of objects, images and art runs at the Ottawa Art Gallery from September 5 to November 16, 2008. The art covers the underside of Ottawa, not the federal capital of grand buildings and tours for tourists, but what is less ideal but salvaged into perhaps beauty – […]

Rosemary’s structure. Daily Bread I am bruised flesh of words, a coat around sensation’s spine. I wonder at the crows that drop, wings closed as long as they dare. I hear my own words proceed, a tin foil on fillings as I speak. I see person in mind’s eye refreshed in new kind of flash. […]