how
can we all still be
so surprised by something you
saw coming for so long
a life has
to end but
still our
bodies fragment our our ness dis
integrates leaves us
dis corporeal ex tinguished
and (worst of all silenced
Doug
I
will not try to contain you
here you live in
the space between carefully chosen words
sometimes
just between the
breath of a sound sounding now
forever between breaths
we
will be reft with
out so
syncopated I will
leave this as
you found as
you taught
in
a breath an ex halation
can be every thing
that will be said
starts with an aspirated aspirant
<<short
sharp exhalation>>
Raised in a mining town in the
mountainous back-country of southeastern British Columbia, Paul Pearson now
lives in Edmonton where he lives and writes with his wife and two children. He
has worked as an arts administrator in the non-profit sector and spent nearly two
decades with the Government of Alberta and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts
before making the jump to Municipal government administration in 2018.
Pearson has been heavily involved in
the literary arts community in Alberta for more than 20 years. He is the
co-founding editor and chapbook designer for the Olive Reading Series and a
current board member of the Edmonton Poetry Festival. His poems have appeared
in Descant and Event, and the anthology Writing the Land: Alberta Through Its Poets from House of Blue
Skies. His debut collection, Lunatic Engine, was published by Turnstone Press in the fall of 2020.
a series of video recordings of contemporary poets reading from their work, prompted
by the Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent cancellations, shut-downs and
isolations; a reading series you can enjoy in the safety of your own protected
space,
James
Lindsay :
“Tinnitus”
James Lindsay
is the author of Our Inland Sea, the chapbook Ekphrasis! Ekphrasis!,
and Double Self-Portrait. He is the co-founder of Pleasence Records and
works in book publishing. He lives in Toronto.
Dennis
Cooley :
“the prairie muse explains her role :” from The Muse Sings (2020)
Dennis Cooley
was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, and has lived most of his life in Winnipeg,
where he has been active in many parts of its literary life. Latest books
include departures, the muse sings, the bestiary, and coldpress
moon.
Gerald
Hill :
“Brother B., Order of St. Benedict, Monk,” “Page of Train” and “When I Become
Poet Laureate, Part the Last”
Gerald
Hill
just published his 7th poetry collection, Crooked at the Far End, from
Radiant Press. A two-time winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry, he
was Poet Laureate of Saskatchewan in 2016.
Paul
Pearson : “The
Assayer” and “Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New
Sciences”
Paul Pearson is
the co-founding editor and chapbook designer for the Olive Reading Series. His
poems have appeared in Descant and Event, and the anthology Writing
the Land: Alberta Through Its Poets from House of Blue Skies. Raised in a
mining town in the mountainous back-country of southeastern British Columbia,
Paul has since relocated to Edmonton where he lives and writes with his wife
and two children. Lunatic Engine is his debut collection.
Carrie
Hunter :
3 poems from Vibratory Milieu.
Carrie
Hunter
received her MFA/MA in the Poetics program at New College of California, edited
the chapbook press, ypolita press, and was on the editorial board of Black
Radish Books. Her forthcoming book, Vibratory Milieu, comes out January
2021 with Nightboat books, and she has two previous full-length collections, The
Incompossible, and Orphan Machines, both with Black Radish Books.
She lives in San Francisco and teaches ESL.
