Author Archives: Pearl

Edward Nudelman in Ampersand. Harriot West, of IWW has a haiku in Ripples on the animals page and there’s a page of rain that strikes me as pleasing too. Also Peake on Kunitz on pivot and line and Marcus’ mention of my chapbook. Also nice to see is cb forrest and Sandra Ridley in the […]

Stuart Ross read at the most recent Dusty Owl from his newest book of poetry I Cut My Finger. His leaflet The Boys is on the table.

Other people may have known this but I hadn’t twigged in. Bytown Bookshop has a lovely blog, regular, short, topical posts. Interesting sidebar links too to presses and printing things. They also have a searchable in stock inventory online, unlike the 3 books stores I’m likely to frequent. As exciting as it is to order […]

There are phrases which pivot the way you perceive from defaults, however those defaults got there. For example, whenever there was an ambulance siren my mom’s face took an anxious gaze, fretting aloud, “someone’s hurt“. It took 20 years until the incidental of being present when someone else responded to the siren and said, just […]

Is it poetry or flash fiction. Not sure of the genre but like the cumulative effect. Did Numbered Days ever look so lovely? The prompt sent me to silent ovation.