Author Archives: Pearl

Belonging is the prompt…so many ways to think of measures of membership, ownership, connection, belonging… aunts and uncles lean on the railing – the family wide butt ** in team colors 10% of the crowd overwhelms rest ** same joint ache for 3 generations – same farm crows ** arm tighter along lover’s waist – […]

Sasquatch was a reading featuring DC Books authors. DC Books, out of Quebec, was founded by Louis Dudek, and for the past several years has been led by Steve Luxton, formerly of Matrix. The press has its 20th anniversary launch at Blue Metropolis this spring. Since I arrived partway, I missed some. I presume Peter […]

Not that I need another poetic task a day but I’m happy to read some else’s results – American sentences of the Ginsberg-inspired observational line [via Watermark]

It’s a little late to relate the Hallowe’en tanka but still cute. It comes via M Kei from Sounds from the Unknown edited by Tomoe Tana and Lucille Nixon, At Hallowe’en
 The baby goblin 
Looking so happy,
 Whispered from under the mask,
 “This is me.” 

~Totaro Matsui Further on the site, something more timely. A […]

Idea passed via Rob Mack Your Messages which are literary word prompts, each stylistically different, to be replied to with 300 word response, daily in November.