I’m spread far on the internet. Not like the days when I had a dozen blogs, each to a subject, but when I’m silent here I may have posted at Instagram, Patreon or twitter. I am in an editing crunch cycle. I’m going through the last 6 months of poem drafts, seeing what has legs, […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Review: The Muse Sings
The Muse Sings by Dennis Cooley (At Bay Press, 2020) was great fun. I’ve long admired the playfulness of Dennis Cooley. This is his 21st book. His abcedarium (University of Albert Press, 2014) has a freewheeling sort of swirl of concrete poetry and “is the letter “a,” a letting out, eh” or p. 68 on a typo […]
Review: Locked in Different Alphabets
Locked in Different Alphabets by Doris Fiszer (Silver Bow Publishing, 2020) is debut collection by an Ottawa poet. I’ve had the privilege of seeing some of these poems as they developed since Fiszer and I overlapped for a time in the same writing group. I’ve read some iterations of the poems in her chapbooks The […]
A.M. Klein list
Because the Sun Hell Light Flesh Memorial Suite The Fool A Number of Stunning Attacks Alpha Female Chronicles footlights still Ghost Face Not in Vain You’ve Sent Me Light The Eleventh Hour The Only Card in a Deck of Knives I Am the Big Heart See the publishers and authors list. Shortlist of poetry of Quebec writers for […]
Seems
I am using twitter and Instagram for sharing what I read. Mostly I am reading and writing, editing, and y’know, life maintenance. 274 followers on Instagram now. 2,027 on twitter. Oh, if you’re an above/ground press subscriber, or might want to be, issue 19 of Guest is coming out momentarily.