Author Archives: Pearl

One Single Impression‘s prompt is change. bland fruit for dessert pops at morning’s hunger

Prompt 89, Ink, is the last one in the run for One Deep Breath. Susan and Jennifer are moving on after a year and a half of inspiring dozens of people. Sandy and Andrée are stepping forward to start another collaborative weekly haiku prompt site at One Single Impression. Lemon, light bulb messy message fingers […]

There’s something potent about Neidecker’s control, her far reach, her sadness with dignity, her seeking peace, her eye for beauty and self-comfort in reconciling impossibles of loss when she is found in nature…p. 268, Paean to Place, O my floating life Do not save love       for things            Throw things to the flood ruined by the […]

I have an untenable number of books in the active parts of piles at the moment. Haiku Canada Review just came. (btw, the Haiku Canada conference will be May 16-18 at Carleton University Ottawa this year.) To excerpt a poem in part becomes infinitely harder when a poem is a word long, itself a portmanteau, […]

Slought sound files of a 1963 Poetry conference, “Poetry conferences at Vancouver (1963) and Berkeley (1965) were significant events that brought together and introduced a range of poets from diverse locations and temperaments. Warren Tallman was the man behind the conference in Vancouver, an event Robert Creeley described as ‘landmark’ in that it brought ‘together […]