Author Archives: Pearl

A new one up at above/ground press author spotlight #20 : Pearl Pirie related to my new chapbook, Heat Lamp, and poetic processes. Sample. Clicky-clicky to read all. How deliberately does writing happen? I set aside time each morning (often the whole morning) for thinking/writing, listening before the day “starts.” And, while waking with hot […]

Thoughts accumulating slow. To draw or take a photo or make a book cover there’s a visual hierarchy by size, proportion, detail, focus. In stories I may take out extraneous, keeping the salient through-line. In haiku I pare to concrete essentials where every syllable, phoneme and space must earn its place. A sonnet is an […]

One goal of writing is to see fresh. Skim off the schtuff you are told or believe and actually see. To create not replicate a cliché. Which is not to say be a lone soul in the universe with Poet Voice Authority. But to be observant, frank and entertaining with a compelling way of presenting […]

before the Hills’ Almanach des Collines launch. It launches on Friday February 6th at 6:30pm at the Wakefield Public Library. and by then you could have your copy of the latest… make me an offer…or tradesies.

I woke up this morning with a sound track… “Why are you doing what you’re doing? Why aren’t you doing what you love?”—Danielle K. Gregoire I made a simpler, more streamlined menu for the website here and deleted the whole menu and could not get it recovered. Rebuild. Fine. There goes that afternoon. I made […]