Author Archives: Pearl

Postcard poem

Random cross-section of a range of poets gives benefits. The poem postcard a day project for August is in its last week and today’s postcard is the sort of poem I might comb thru a few books to get as much pleasure from. It’s by Rane Arroyo (at bottom of said page, links to sample […]

Purpose of Poetry

Marshall Hryciuk on the poetry collection he launches today in Toronto writes: “I call them “franklie…” because poetry needs to cease whining or apologizing for having no purpose, no purchase in the social, political and mechanical world people without poetry call reality. And if poetry makes nothing happen, symboliste poetry makes even less. Perhaps it’s […]

Homecoming

I’m on a haiku and senryu trip again having read hundreds of the small phrase poetry over the last couple days. The intensity dilutes the effect of stillness and pause, but they’re addictive little micro-narratives. I’ve written 4 dozen or so in the last 12 hours or so (which isn’t to say well-done, or done, […]

poem thingee

wet experience slosh guarded behind antiseptic phonemes polyurethane silicon hypoallergenic membrane gap of keystrokes perpetuates arms length hold, bonds without embrace nor release from ward or from word complex this con -tact is -flict & flinch of 50 years of intersection and sects di- & resurrects Eden’s oust appl ause & -tempts