Author Archives: Pearl

Experimental Peter Payack named city’s first-ever ‘poet populist’ Tanne describes in part that for the $1000 stipend he will continue raising the profile of poetry as he has been… Payack was involved with the 2000 Illuminated Words project, which reflected poems off of the walls of public buildings. Payack was also the driving force between […]

Huang Xiang is part of the City of Asylum project. 24 cities have agreed to take in literary political refugees A writer cannot live on words alone, of course. He needs a place to write, a house to shelter him and food to sustain him. Reese and Samuels provided the house — two doors down […]

The current thick Brick Magazine has a 3 page tribute on Tomas Tranströmer by Robert Hass. Apparently Tranströmer is a pianist too, one handedly since his stroke, and by income, was a psychotherapist, even with work in translation to 50 languages. Other tidbits: He published his first book at 23 and has done 8 since. […]

You know when you get a happy-sad internet find? Alternative Poetry Online at Ditch. How many weeks would it take me to check the links let alone absorb all that? Much quicker is bill bissett paintings

Biosphere Woman redefine the tingling face of -25 when stepping outside it’s the parasites diving deeper into skin, crying the mothership  self-destruct sequence. it’s trying to kill us all.  nothing  is inert, monolithic, not the x-ray lace of bones on black,  as sentient as houseplants any cuspid signals, catches we can be scoped but know no medical scanner  is comprehensive from crowd to seed […]