Author Archives: Pearl

Nick Bruno mentioned being socialized by books, about that disconnect between local language and custom and what we read growing up, to raise ourselves in effectively another idiom of life. Interesting framework. We all have the many dialects of language, one for dealing with professionals or school or business, one a home language. In some […]

A poem of interborough transit in The Times by By Annie Bien and another On the train to Rue de Rivoli by Alex Stolis. Poetry for Alzheimer’s, as therapy is rather like mentioned at haiku conference [via my favorite place for poetry news] One Deep Breath’s prompt for responses: Tiny Pretty Things. Currently Reading on […]

It’s up to the rest of us now. Grace Paley has died. She often said she liked to be out in the streets. And maybe her writing was as original, compressed, fresh and energetic as it was because it had to fight for attention with stopping the war(s), liberating women, bringing creative writing into the […]

Aug 23 at the Ottawa Art gallery housed the the Factory reading. It was the 14th anniversary of above/ground press and the launch of 3 new chapbooks. [You can buy at that link, and try some of Hawkins’ here and hear some of Earl’s here]. It’s always nice to take home what you just heard […]

half awakened – my hair being combed by cat claws * music played low so as not to wake me – tender intentions * Rain sheets dissect dawn into panels depths of skyline Daybreak haiku