59. Purple Springs: A novel by Nellie L McClung (University of Toronto, 1921, 1992) was a wonderful read. I’ve had it on my shelf for years and we finally read it all aloud. So many great set ups of suspense of what’s going to hit the fan and yet the character Pearl brings out the […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Chapbooks read
55. for the love of Black girls by Tatiana M.R. Johnson (Indie, 2017) is earlier poems than what we got graced with an audience at Tree Reading Series and these are grrrl power: “grow into everything you have never been told you could be.” It urges thriving despite. “Maybe survival starts in a root deep […]
Interview
Some of the questions I was posed for the Girl Guides included these: Do you have poems about dragons? Not yet. But magic yes, and poems that play in imagination. I read from a pet radish, shrunken (Book*hug, 2015). What inspires you to make a poem? Sometimes when you have no one you can talk […]
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Editing
I am hoping to get an editing course running in mid-April. Details to come. March has been filled with doing editing. I am super-close on getting 2 poetry manuscripts out the door, one started 5 years ago, one started 14 years ago. I’m going through notes of a test reader this morning, re-spell-checking because I […]