Author Archives: Pearl

If poetry is a religion, is publishing the place of worship? If something can be hunted up even if people have no inclination to do so, does it still count as being on record? How many people reading means something is read? When can it be said that a writing has an audience? “For where […]

Some recent mullings around the idea closeness to jot on the excuse of Prompt 73: Closeness. Not all constitute haiku’s brevity and resolvedness, suggestion rather than tell. Some are more lyrical shorts, one more an outline than a tanka, but decide as you may… ** from 3 rooms away a breath change. Response: “something you […]

HHerménégilde Chiasson is currently working on 15 books. He described himself as never having a fear of the blank page. Once he could read and write, he wanted to keep moving and exploring. He remembers the day he became literate and described how he read from the newspaper to his illiterate mom, deciphering the images […]

Balance is the prompt at OneDeepBreath for week 72. My clumsy newbie’s tanka, too busy, too unstill, too undistilled. But one starts somewhere. Perhaps better to call it a lyrical short, two sipped breaths. It starts for us when we get there late. late coming 10 minutes break, breathe. A second with more balance then, […]

It seems a lot of writers are in isolated areas where there isn’t a large literary community, or the word doesn’t percolate about what there is locally. There are lull periods when not much happens so here’s a list of what I know of the places online for poetry. For sound of poetry, there are […]