Author Archives: Pearl

Some awarenesses rise to the surface in the process I’ve run thru a few times now. Last year I took a Lampman sonnet, cut it up, put it back together in a new arrangement of the words. What struck me is that although the meter seemed stiff, the word combinations he had were stellar. When […]

Let’s see if this works. Can I attach a link to an MS word file on my server? > Nope, seems not. Here’s a pdf of the poetry rubric. It’s a grid of 8 items of poetry technique to check a poem for when editing.

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Dear Friend, Don’t you hear this hammer ring? I’m gonna split this rock And split it wide! When I split this rock, Stand by my side. – Langston Hughes For four days in March, poets will descend on our nation’s capital for an historic gathering: Split This Rock Poetry Festival: Poems of Provocation & Witness […]

The active stack of books I’ve been in the midst of, in no particular order because the order shifts continually. Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy (my, what a gratifying hunger spot hit) p. 150 they tell me get a job and earn yourself an automobile – I’d rather collect my parts as […]