Author Archives: Pearl

The winner of this year’s Robert Kroetsch Award is Geoffery Hlibchuk’s Varations on Holderlin.

One Single Impression has the prompt of color. In consideration of this spring almost tanka: dad’s brown garden still, the only green is the plastic tomato stakes – dad, my world’s row marker sleeps days indoors. btw, it’s Billy the Blogging poet’s Poet Laureate of the Blogosphere election time. would you vote for rob mclennan? […]

I mentioned briefly here that I was reading Kevin Connolly’s Revolver a few weeks ago. Like Marcus I was anticipating hearing him in person at the Ottawa writers festival. Connolly’s newest book Revolver is set up so that each poem has to be a challenge to be different from any other in the book. In […]

Saturday’s Writing Life #3 was Sean Wilson hosting Mary Swan, Elyse Friedman (Long Short Story) and Diane Schoemperlen. Friedman’s stories were entertaining to my brain. The offbeat twists on expectations were light and there’s underlying compassion for her characters that was warming. I found myself rather distracted by non-verbal in the panel. They were all […]

Lynne Alsford and L.M. Rochefort were among those shortlisted for the CAA, poetry category. On May 13, the top place finalist will be announced.