Author Archives: Pearl

(So it ain’t sophisticated but it amused me. :)) Actionable Joy “An opal holds a fiery spark, But a flint holds fire.” — Christina Rossetti We hold these ruses to be self-evident: baubles of trouble- d double D legend are poignant, a jinxed tragic beauty we must scrape to. How to keep pap and pope […]

“When I’m awake, conscious working in a certain way I am more unconscious than in my half-asleep. When I’m in that half sleep there is a kind of vigilance.” Jacques Derrida in interview

MiPOradio Poetry is searchable at iTunes if you have it. It’s also downloadable as an mp3 at miporadio blogspot. Bob Marcacci’s The Countdown, Episode 20 (37 minutes) of MiPo radio features Arlene Ang for first 9 minutes, followed by followed by Wm. Rike‘s “Crone on Time” my reading my poem “Old Uncle” (around minute 12) […]

Reading: If I were writing this by Robert Creeley and Ken Babstock’s Days into Flatspin (I’m not sure they’re compatible to read side by side) Speaking of Creeley, One thing he got from Williams, which he pointed to a series of poems by each, was the establishment of a pattern of half-rimes, sound links, throughout […]

shift shirt contoured buffet line to work my way down (highlit goosebumps) to the nibbley bits “Spicy fibs” is the prompt this week at One Deep Breath. I have done fibs before . They are syllabically, 1/1/2/3/5/8. where no one-syllable lines can contain an article (the, a, la, le, etc.)