Author Archives: Pearl

The form of the dismissively satirical structure makes it one of the more unique book reviews that I ever started to read. [via Mathilde] On the Recent Publication of Kahlil Gibran’s Collected Works by Alan Jacobs: I Expansive and yet vacuous is the prose of Kahlil Gibran, And weary grows the mind doomed to read […]

Fall leaves in Gatineau Park Originally uploaded by Brian Pirie Two weeks ago, we were surrounded by them. Fall leaves already are stripped to the ground. As a second turnabout Hubby was the one taking and the picture and I was in it. We are always in the midst of change but not always aware […]

Have you seen the a as in dog anipoems by Marko Niemi & Dan Waber? What creativity in spin and humor. e as in ladybug oohed and M as in zebra wowed. l as in eagle and C as in inchworm made me chuckle. O made me laugh. It’s sort of like a macro what-is-it […]

Stephanie Bolster‘s writing group is launching The Wellington Street Anthology tonight, 7 p.m. room 156. It’s back at the National Library and Archives. Oblique Strokes has more info on this.

Time flies. Totally Optional Prompts is in week 3 already. It is structured with is a poem by someone else as a leap point in any way you see fit. The current is The Horse by Ted Kooser. Before that, a Tang Dynasty poet, Liu’ Chang-ch’ing. The first was a Kenneth Rexroth translation of a […]