Managing the Emotional Load of the Submission Process – guest post by Sherre Vernon Red Alder is open for subs. Frances Boyle’s poem was picked up by Best Canadian Poetry. Watch at Biblioasis on FB. Albert Dumont on being asked to be English poet laureate of Ottawa for the next 2 year term. I will […]
Author Archives: Pearl
After favourable results at a twitter poll, I have started a public instagram account. There I am sharing some poetry daily at http://www.instagram/pearlpiriepoet I must say, I’ve been on instagram for years but only reading and speaking to people I already know as a closed forum. Exploring instagram with tags is a free for all, […]
Chapbook Spotlight: Sex in Sevens
This is an addition to the CanLit poetic tradition of sex-at followed by a few (Barry McKinnon, Brian Fawcett, George Stanley, Artie Gold, rob mclennan, Mark Cochrane and Kate Van Dusen) of checking in with how sex is every few years. sex at 38 ii: I don’t want to washthe sheets. it would lose the […]
Heather Spears
Heather Spears has passed. Wolsak and Wynn did a bunch of her poetry collections including her gg-winning collection The Word for Sand. She won the Pat Lowther 3 times. Northrop Frye called her first book “haunting and disconcerting.” Last time I saw her was at the Tree Reading Series when she was visiting from Denmark […]
Chapbook Spotlight: Quebec Passages
the quickness travel reduces us to the excretory feeding tubes that we are. baby birds, all of us. dim, too dim to see. give me a flashlight to glow the pink stretch between the translucent beaks of books. will mother return? should the food cart not return, should it return empty except for the sound […]