In primary school reading Rainer Maria Rilke— how lavish the words, how freeing that a woman should write of blossom breasts and God. “But though my vigil constantly I keepMy God is dark—like woven texture flowing,A hundred drinking roots, all intertwined;I only know that from His warmth I’m growing.More I know not: my roots lie […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Routes to the Public
Some never publish books. Some never submit to magazines. Magazines can be trailers for books. I seem to have 3 routes for sending out poetry to the world: Magazines, Chapbooks and Books. In theory poems are gathered and sent to magazines. Those that land successfully are gathered into chapbooks. Chapbooks that land well are collated […]
Nelson Ball Prize
Canadian poetry book/chapbook/ephemera publishers! The Nelson Ball Prize has extended its deadline by two weeks. This $1,000 prize goes to a Canadian poet for a publication of any length featuring “poetry of observation,” as chosen by our two judges.
Between
Been reading, editing, gardening, sewing, cleaning. I have a backlog of books read that I’d like to summarize, note, review. Eventually they’ll be too many and I’ll skip and start where I’m at again. I’ve been thinking that a chapbook can be as dextrous as a bicycle, moving nimbly among items of a meditation. Single […]
Women’s writing
You suppose I’ll scare anyone off with a title like that? Is it a pejorative phrase? It niggles at my that the workshop on the history of women’s tanka and haiku, while it attracted a good number, all were female. There was a proportional to population representation who showed up for a senryu workshop, albeit, […]