Author Archives: Pearl

When a poem is universal sentiment, the vagueness put out can be received with roughly the same vagueness. It floats over the culture. Maybe its done in doggeral, maybe in haiku, maybe in free verse or some concrete form. It doesn’t matter if the content is general, say, Mom sees child fall and then stand […]

I’d also recommend reading my write-up on the Lampman-Scott Reading over at the Ottawa Poetry Newsletter.

The Equinox issue of Womb is now live and I’m in it along with Kate Greenstreet (who we heard at The Factory series earlier this year) and several other women poets – Kelli Russell Agodon, Nicole Cooley, Luisa A. Igloria, Eve Rifkah, Jennifer Karmin + vispo, Nicki Hastie, Raina León, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Arlene Biala, […]

The poems in Che Guevara’s notebook, his Commonplace book of words that guided him will be published.

Have I mentioned Slice and Dice before? When you write some utter dreck, paste it into that web page, ask it to be cut into from 3-6 columns and it creates new justapositons that may turn up interesting combinations and if not, at least you have virtually destroyed the piece that annoyed you. Sure one […]