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Gee, Tightrope Books gave quite the endorsement in its shout out about here: Pearl’s blog is fun and easy to read, while always being informative. With snippits from the works she reviews and pictures of others, this blog is entertaining and useful. While some of her reviews are personal opinion, Pearl is sharp and observant […]

It’s too easy to make the play of d     o         w           n or d     r         o           p t r ip and f a _ _ are still all redundant in a way, the verb or adverb enacting itself. Marlene’s looks elegantly simple and hard to do. While people in scrabble turn cow into cows or […]

Paul Tyler at the Plan 99 Series in April 2010 reading “Manitoba Maple”, a poem from his new book from Gaspereau Press, “A Short History of Forgetting“. (If this subject feels familiar, I mentioned this reading before.) Readings can be nerve-wracking, whether you’ve done it a dozen times or hundreds, because the random element of […]

Enter two poems for free: May 31 is the deadline for the 2010 Haiku Invitational sponsored by the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival. Michael Dylan Welch is serving as judge. If you were thinking of going to the national haiku get together in Montreal, it’s not too late…May 21st weekend. Around 70 people have registered already. […]

For OSI prompt: Reign a sestina with sadistic playful line end word choice. what will be put away all the tension, pulled out to skin, has left. under threat of strange, let’s get soaked in rain. fragile satins chill. make do. old denim, faded, rust-stained, is closet-lining. fold of wire hangers nipple shoulders, regret stretches. […]