Ryan Pratt made a list of his favourite reads including a few I also enjoyed, a few I missed seeing, and my own little satire from Shreeking Violet.
Author Archives: Pearl
Peter F Yacht Club
Roland at the Peter F Yacht Club last night. His poem on the page in issue adds another dimension with the stanzas floating around the page like the papers on the water in “Waist Steep”. I came late so missed part, was still mentally arriving while Marilyn Irwin read, but in break I heard that […]
Upcoming Books
I have to admit that while I may get to 220 books and chapbooks in the year, it might lodge around the less round and pretty number of 217. In either case I’m somewhere over 25,000 pages read. I’m not alone in formalizing this to a degree. At the GoodReads’ Reading Challenge 1.7 million people […]
Units of Measure
Should poetry be a non-count noun? When it is a thing? There’s a poem. There, say. But it rarely being finished, when it is radically, substantially edited, when is it a second thing? When it becomes a story it ceases being a poem, probably. A book is a thing. It may be made of poems. How […]
Merry
Hacking of the server blipped this away but we’re back: At the station on the air. Reindeer hat and all, The night before Christmas, all through the nation Not a poet was paid cash, not even at this station. Poet stockings were hung over their sofas with hope, For Nelson Ball or Ann Carson, not […]