Author Archives: Pearl

Happy World Poetry Day! Its purpose is to “give fresh recognition and impetus to national, regional and international poetry movements.” Write and read at every level. The poem a few days ago is one of the Blackout Poems shown at that site this week. Love the fruitfulness that comes from one source. In other news, […]

Four Horseman: The Four Horsemen Project at the Great Canadian Theatre Company was quite a ride. It will continue on ’til April 1st. Here’s a rehearsal clip and more on the background. I now understand how any reviews I saw were at something of a loss to describe this spin-off from a 1970s poetry performance […]

piano note            s    paces be    twixt breaths One Deep Breath stillness prompt. Elsewhere, I find that reviewing a poetry book can be done as poetry itself [link].

Poetry Quote: “In comedy and poetry there is a kind of constant setup and slant delivery.”– Robert Peake Did you know there’s a way to review websites on Amazon? Who knew? Poet Robert Peake for one. (Unrelated to poet Matt Peake?) Robert reviewed my Page Half-Full site site, which one day, hopefully really soon, will […]

Austin Kleon has started a blog of Blackout Poems and provides a weekly challenge of newspaper source text to do the poems from. [Found via Amy Nelson-Mile] Here’s my kick at the can..Way