Author Archives: Pearl

Every now and again at the Buffalo Poetics Listserv there’s a call to rally to raise funds for a lifetime writer who has no medical coverage or needs financial support in some way. It was nice to come across the woodcock fund, a support structure for relief for “when a writer faces an unexpected financial […]

All the seats were full at the Factory Series. Monty Reid was MC of the Ottawater Issue 4 launch. (On third photo my camera battery light started flashing. bah.) Ottawater’s an annual magazine, a free pdf. This issue has art by various people, over 30 poets (I’m in there on page 80), interviews (Nicholas Lea, […]

I finished updating my writing stats from last year. Good to get that out of the way. It makes me revisit the question of: What does it mean when someone says they composed a poem? When someone says they haven’t written a poem in months, is that literal? How high is the critical bar in […]

Spaces are part of the alphabet, or the phonetics, of a poem. Gaps emphasize what remains and spaces count out the beats just as spaces in music continue and sounds starts back on the same measure. Further understanding of this comes via an article by Deloss Brown for theatre on scansion on when Shakespeare wrote […]

Ahhh, book lust attack! I need a job for about half a day, cash, at least, now. My wish list priorities got instantly reshuffled – Li-Young Lee has released his new poetry book and it comes with an audio CD. I love his voice. Behind my Eyes. New and in review words, “transcendent poems” among […]