Emily Pauline Johnson (a.k.a. Tekahionwake, “double wampum”) I discovered in an estate sale of a cousin. She won the book as a high school English prize around a century ago. This poem I memorized, the fourth of fifth, I memorized after Edna St. Vincent Millay, some Macbeth and I Think Mice are Rather Nice. https://www.poetry.com/poem/12603/penseroso Penseroso Soulless is […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Small Press Fair
Finally the return of Ottawa Small Press Fair, fall 2022! It’s in room 203 of the Jack Purcell Community Centre (on Elgin, at 320 Jack Purcell Lane, Ottawa) on Saturday, November 12, 2022 from noon to 5pm. I’ll be tabling and a new poem will be in the latest Puddles of Sky anthology and at […]
Book Launch
Ottawa Book Launch of “Sheets: Typewriter Works” (Invisible Publishing) by Cameron Anstee With guest readers Monty Reid and Pearl Pirie Hosted by Chris JohnsonWednesday November 2, 2022, 6:30pmPerfect Books (258 Elgin Street), FreeCameron Anstee is the author of Sheets: Typewriter Works (Invisible Publishing, 2022) and Book of Annotations (Invisible Publishing, 2018), and the editor of The […]
Checking In With: Sanita Fejzić
Sanita Fejzić is an editor, children’s writer, poet, playwright and point of a whirlwind. She did haiku for a while with KaDo. Way back was a regular at Tree and In/Words (and various things about town). At that tine she gracefully allowed me to publish some vispo in the form of The Union of 6 […]
Loved Then, Loved Now: On Aging
I’ll be periodically posting poems I’ve long loved, some love back to the 80s. Maya Angelou’s lines On Aging frequent my head: On Aging When you see me sitting quietly,Like a sack left on the shelf,Don’t think I need your chattering.I’m listening to myself.Hold! Stop! Don’t pity me! Hold! Stop your sympathy! Understanding if you got it,Otherwise […]