I have apparently been doing this pesbo blog for 20 years now. Some have tried to give it cachet and called in the Pesbo Journal. Take prestige if you need it. And I have been doing book reviews in various places for 15 years. Oddly the League of Canadian poets seems to have deleted their […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Summer Zipped
The ziplock of summer fruit is emptied. I did 3 readings and an author’s day. I sent 2 submissions, and 3 of 4 reviews that I have on tap. I repaired a few book bindings, read a whack of things, located 2/3 mislaid books. I’m averaging a title read every 5 days, some 16 pages, […]
Psst
Emily Austin is delightful and has a new novel coming out. I’m going all completist on her. Gay Girl Prayers by Emily Austin (Brick, 2024) is fabulous. And now shortlisting for the Lampman Award as it should. Maybe you have to be born into Christian fundamentalism and be out the other side to find this […]
Reading!
This Thursday I’ll be participating in a Factory reading at Avant-Garde, Ottawa with Shery and Jamaal. Jen had to cancel. Details.
Been a minute
To think I once was once juggling a dozen blogs. And now? A post every quarter at one or two places… For the curious, or compulsive readers who must finish a paragraph, I once had this poetry blog, a cat-narrated blog, one for flash fiction, a vegan recipe blog, a daily life, and a poem-a-day, […]