Author Archives: Pearl

We perpetuate distinctions between people and tribes to winnow down who we could spend our life energies on, arbitrary cut-offs, sometimes hard-lines. Maybe we should blame Sesame Street and that game 3 things are kinda the same. One thing just doesn’t belong here…da da dada da Common Ground is the prompt this week at One […]

One of my poems is in the print anthology of Mipoesias under Didi Menendez called, the Best of Cafe Cafe, Summer 2007. It is 47 pages and sells for $6.99. Other poets are: AnnMarie Eldon, Alexander Dickow, Amy King, Birdie Jaworski, Christine Klocek-Lim, Diego Quiros, Edward Nudelman, Elvie Shockley, Jennifer Bredl, Jim Knowles, Jordan Stempleman, […]

Sasquatch on May 27th had 2 guest readers, Sylvia Adams and Christopher Taylor. Sylvia Adams read first after the open mic, from various books and chapbooks, including Mondrian’s Elephant and her latest book, Sleeping on the Moon. Since her voice was coming and going, she brought her daughter to assist with carrying out the booked […]

Anne Carson‘s book Men in the Off-Hours has a lot of intriguing fragments and spins on familiar things as she tries to pull up heartbeats from what has flatlined, such as what Lazarus felt like as he is drawn back from death. It is poetic language in the lyrical imaginative sense to take the reader […]

See Shanna Compton‘s article in Poetry Foundation on Blogging and Poetry? Rather good. Well thought out, idea and info rich. Here’s a sample snippet Online magazines and print/web hybrids are getting in on the act as well, using blogs and comment features to fill in the gaps between issues, keep content fresher, and encourage reader […]