Author Archives: Pearl

Feel for the weak spots It would be interesting to do a screen recording of editing a poem.

The next edition of Ottawa’s Versefest is coming…the schedule is still to be announced but so far we know…March 24-29, Misha Solomon! Karen Solie! Isabella Wang! Sheri-D Wilson! Jérôme Melançon! Kacper Bartczak! Paul Vermeersch! Alexandre Yergeau! Jumoke Verissimo! With readings, performances and workshops. Keep gaps in your calendar.

Upcoming in the anthology launch, Hills’ Almanach des Collines. Note: due to illness the launch has been bumped a week until Feb 13th. I’m one of a dozen writers/artists with a vision of the future in the anthology. The mandate was that, the specifics of time for this place up to each person. I picked […]

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 […]