Author Archives: Pearl

Sonny Williams in Contemporary Poetry Review talks about various collections of Mary Oliver and how the unflagging optimism makes for one note that fatigues the way Easy Listening can. She creates amiable closeness through questions and second person. The tone is conversational, in the sense of sitting down with tea speaking in iambic rounds, even […]

Ooh, Susan Constable’s got a page at this newest issue of Simply Haiku. She’s so skilled at writing and getting her works out to market. (She’s from Internet Writing Workshop mailing list. Always room for more there.) Something else of interest to check is is the Maine listserv of women’s poetry

At this wonderful non-commercial poetry site called Ubu editions [pointed out by rob mclennan] there are pdfs of works that made ripples through poetry world, that are outstanding in their subset of modern styles that should be more widely read. One of the links is to to The Relative Minor a book of 83 pages […]

siren-wind catcalls the building snowed in pane rattles in frame fire engine hooonnnnnnnnnnks — bed that much warmer Shelter, prompt of week 37 Link: The spring issue is up of Modern English Tanka. They are very different than traditional. A breath and a glance of becoming alert, senryu-like sometimes such as Linda Jeannette Ward’s tanka […]

“Writing, then, becomes meditative in the sense that experiences are recalled, and then described, again, without inference or evaluation. Most of today’s haijin speak of a deep experience consisting of recall, reliving, composing, and revisiting and recomposing. ” — Ray Ramussen