Lillian Allen, Natalie Caples, Ronald Cummings & Tamari Kitossa are organizing a conference for October — deadline for proposals Sept. 1 — there are a lot of possible topics here that link with recent issues — please share and submit! Conference: 22nd-23rd October 2015 “Harriet’s Legacies: Race, Historical Memory and Futures in the Niagara Region.” […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Anthology of Best Canadian Poets in NYC: Two Days Only
Best Canadian Poets and Authors from Tightrope Books are convening in the apple. Tues June 23, 2015, 7-8:30pm Word for Word welcomes Canadian Poets, Byrant Park, NYC Best Canadian Poetry launch as part of Word for Word featuring the Canadian Poets: George Elliott Clarke, Aaron Kreuter, Kateri Lanthier, Pearl Pirie, Wanda O’Connor, Medrie Purdham, Brent Raycroft, […]
Win, win. Also win-win.
While keep rolling up the rim and not getting donuts when you could be getting poetry? While I recover from the small press fair extravaganza, and go to see a friend perform in a Gilbert & Sullivan play, you might consider competing to win a copy of radish. A copy of your very own, or […]
New mini chapbooks
Opening to curtains to 3 new mini chapbooks at the Ottawa small press fair at Jack Purcell tomorrow afternoon (or to a surprise 4th as well should the forces of gnomes and homes be with me). Alicia Cumming has a chapbook of women, mother/daughter, body image and finding one’s personal footing. Example excerpt: “suppressing, moulding,/unceasing […]
Explaining Poetry
Intro patter that is backstory not visible in the poem is one thing. Where you give away ending of the poem in the introduction thus undermining the effect is another. Here’s a third way prefaces to poems can harm the effectiveness of the reading: Some months ago a poet explained an lexicon of terms, not […]