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We've entered the world of MailChimp for this newsletter. Deep breath. We can brave it together.
So what's going on? Well, there's the book. My third full-length collection is coming April 2015 from BookThug. the pet radish, shrunken is due to go to edits and cover design shortly. I've got my fingers crossed that a certain yet to be named visual artist is going to have her work gracing the front. Exciting times.
Forthcoming sooner, a poem of mine from Filling Station was chosen to be part of 2014's Best Canadian Poetry Anthology from Tightrope.
What is in my hands is a poem for a micro chapbook with my phafours press from Phil Hall. That will come out this fall. Hopefully I'll wrastle up another couple titles by other people before then and have chapbooks firm enough to announce. It'll be great tho. You'll see.
And I've started doing layout, design, printing for self-published chapbooks by others. I can show you latest the finished beauty in the next update.
Also new is the find of Andrew Simonet's book: Making Your Life as an Artist. I'd like to give it a shout out because it impressed me so much. It is a free download or a way to get the paper copy at that link.
Over at my author site www.pearlpirie.com there's a new addition or two to places published and interviews section. And more coming within the month. As always, the CKCU tab has an archive of the Literary Landscape shows I've done. The next one is live at 93.1fm in Ottawa this Thursday at 6:30pm or podcasting from CKCUfm.com. The next episode airing this week features a new reading series.
I'm at Carleton University twice this week — once for the show and once to talk to teenagers about the writing life as part of Creative Writing Camps. If you know a kid between 13 and 16 there's one more camp Aug 18-22 and registration is still on. It's $250 a week for f/t wowness with small groups and instructors Chris Johnson, Laura Gagnon, Tara Ogaick and Sanita Fejzek!
Summer reading is underway. Not that it changes much at any time of the year. For the 3rd year I'm doing the 95books challenge. I'm at book 80 of completed books. I'm listing them at twitter (@pesbo) and at the poetry/poetics blog pesbo. A couple books pictured there to are to spark my sonnet novel, set in the typographical world. It's tentatively entitled The Diaries of Apostrophe & Semicolon.
Blogwise, lately in vegetarian & vegan food at Eaten Up there was the Beechwood Cookoff. Coming soon is the exquisite adventure that was Café My House. Over at Humanyms there's been a slow summer mull about the nature of car ownership, us vs the garden, memories of my aunt Maude and father. In this gorgeous bit of life, there's also my weekly(-ish) Looking on the Bri Side where I post portraits of the hubby.
Let's see, is that enough for an opening volley?
How often would you expect to get a newsletter? When's the next big thing likely to happen? Maybe next month—the Tree Reading Series starts up again. I'll be starting my 5th season coordinating the workshops, finding who poets want to hear poetics from, and finding people who want to show or tell something as they mentor poets. The 8pm speakers are mostly up thanks to the co-directors. I'll be getting all the last details posted of which poets will bring their catalyst to the table of the Tree Seed Workshop shortly. We'll be starting with a round table by Peter Richardson Sept 9 at Black Squirrel Bookstore.
Until next time, keep reading and keep writing,
Pearl