I now have a poet profile on the Haiku Foundation website.
Author Archives: Pearl
LCP shortlists
Lampert: Bertrand Bickersteth – The Response of Weeds (NeWest Press, 2020), Jillian Christmas – the gospel of breaking (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2020), Valerie Mason-John – I Am Still Your Negro (University of Alberta Press, 2020), Bahar Orang – Where Things Touch (Book*hug Press, 2020), Tyler Pennock – Bones (Brick Books, 2020), and Natasha Ramoutar – Bittersweet (Mawenzi House, 2020) For Raymond Souster: Sadiqa de Meijer – The Outer Wards (Véhicule Press/Signal Poetry, 2020), Klara du Plessis – Hell […]
Books read, haiku & tanka mostly
70. Mayfly, issue 70, winter issue (Brooks Books, 2021). What an excellent magazine. No slag or baggy poems in here. I heard good things about it and it bears out. I’ll be buying back issues. 71. Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku by Barry George (Accents Publishing, 2010). I nearly bought this book a few […]
Chapbook spotlight: Vertigoheel
god as my colophon, devil as my colon: a scarf and a necklace are decorations of defiance. after a lifetime-promise: female means choked, I swear a name ripens on my tongue, its juice loosens my teeth, its sweetness more acidic than it tasted on the way down. not easy to float in a water-filled boat. […]
Chapbook spotlight: boathouse
Boathouse (pronounced Oath in the Boathouse) explores experimental edges and seams of language. winter sleepless by a rim, a plate presses under anotherautofellatio, earth’s crust consumes itself here velocity lords of cauliflower meltsthe plow scrape, tuberculosis-long bloodshot real estate philosophersreiterate in bone, location loca 2 a.m. lounge logic has flour glossiness in longitudinal closets of too […]