Author Archives: Pearl

Heather Cardin’s poem is the poem of the week at Leaf Press. For those in Ottawa area who don’t already know, rob’s next workshop is coming soon. Steven Price will read at the next Tree from his book on Harry Houdini. It sounds interesting. I once enjoyed a biography on Houdini and his treatment in […]

I mentioned Spineless Books once before at least. It’s got some interesting things like this: Gadsby: A Story of Over 50,000 Words Without Using the Letter “E” by Ernest Vincent Wright, written in 1939. It’s a classic Lipgram. Getting into the story proper: Old Bill Simpkins was loud in his antagonism to what was a […]

The reading I mentioned earlier was a full house. Each successive cluster of people coming up the stairs said, oh, it’s full!. And rollicking amid the verbal frolicking. People all seemed to throroughly enjoy each of the readers. Sandra Ridley read first 2 sets of poems, (quiet poems especially in comparison to the volume of […]

The current Ringing of the Bards is now live at Ansari’s. I’ll call out shakir hasnain‘s in particular because I can’t leave a comment there at his interesting koanic sort of piece. How it works: The composite poem for the poetry carnival there will link you to the full poem submitted for each the participating […]

I finally got down to a long sit with Days into Flatspin which is the title of that first attracted me when Marcus read a piece from it at Poetic Desserts how long ago? It has a different tone than the work I read a month ago. Much denser, in a good way. More reporting […]