The Short and the Short of It
Hello folks,
Life is a short blink or few, as each illness, death and melting snowdrift reminds us. Tell those you love, that you love them. Make someone's life easier today.
Short.
The short poem course. Check out Studio Nouveau on FB. Registration closes for this 6-week cycle on April 9th. For spring special, it's $100 for 6 lessons, tours and exercises. That's half off! The first week: haiku. The second week: senryu. Third week short lyric and minimalism. Fourth week: one word poems, then erasure poetry and lastly, but not leastly, a tour of tanka. Payment by paypal at pearl@pagehalffull.com or contact to arrange another way to pay.
You only gain so much by being a moth on the wall.
Watch this space for upcoming chapbook by Claudia Radmore, Roland Packer and one more to be announced. Spoiler: Possibly of an Ottawa poet and bound in wood veneer.
Pssst, Most enjoyed read lately? Metaphysical Dictionary by Svetlana Lilova, ill by Graham Falk (Dumagrad Books, 2016), available at Knife Fork Books, Toronto.
And congrats to Stuart Ross who won this year's Battle of the Bards with his Resplendent Sparrow.
Until next time, keep reading and keep writing,
Pearl