Paul Pearson
@paulpearson.ca
Communication professional supporting a poetry habit. First book, Lunatic Engine, out from Turnstone Press. PaulPearson.ca
Good morning weekend.
November 15, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Good morning weekend.
One lonely little duck buddy on the open water before the ice sets in.
#sturgeonriver #winterimpending
#sturgeonriver #winterimpending
November 5, 2025 at 7:46 PM
One lonely little duck buddy on the open water before the ice sets in.
#sturgeonriver #winterimpending
#sturgeonriver #winterimpending
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Eight, “Brother Fire” by W.S. Piero
What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily...
What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily...
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Eight, “Brother Fire” by W.S. Piero
What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily...
paulpearson.ca
November 2, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Eight, “Brother Fire” by W.S. Piero
What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily...
What is the difference between a poem and a really long sentence, broken? That is the question I found myself asking daily...
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.”
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-31 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘The Kiss.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-31 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘The Kiss.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 31, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.”
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-31 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘The Kiss.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-31 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘The Kiss.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Daily affirmation.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-29 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Dancing on New Year’s Eve at Dave and Sheila’s.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-29 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Dancing on New Year’s Eve at Dave and Sheila’s.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Daily affirmation.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-29 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Dancing on New Year’s Eve at Dave and Sheila’s.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-29 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Dancing on New Year’s Eve at Dave and Sheila’s.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Just another Tuesday on planet Earth.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-28 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘All In One Day.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-28 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘All In One Day.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Just another Tuesday on planet Earth.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-28 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘All In One Day.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-28 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘All In One Day.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Me too! Though the branch was less vague and more like a black crack in the overcast sky.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-27 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Brother Francis To Brother Leone.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-27 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Brother Francis To Brother Leone.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Me too! Though the branch was less vague and more like a black crack in the overcast sky.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-27 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Brother Francis To Brother Leone.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-27 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from W.S. Dipiero’s #poem ‘Brother Francis To Brother Leone.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-SEVEN, “Poetry” Magazine March, 2024
When was the last time you ran across a concrete poem? Poems whose words and line arrangements look like a physical object. You know, like George Herbert's 'Easter Wings' which used to be on every high school…
When was the last time you ran across a concrete poem? Poems whose words and line arrangements look like a physical object. You know, like George Herbert's 'Easter Wings' which used to be on every high school…
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-SEVEN, “Poetry” Magazine March, 2024
When was the last time you ran across a concrete poem? Poems whose words and line arrangements look like a physical object. You know, like George Herbert's 'Easter Wings' which used to be on every high school English syllabus. This is a rabbit hole you can easily lose yourself down for days.
paulpearson.ca
October 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-SEVEN, “Poetry” Magazine March, 2024
When was the last time you ran across a concrete poem? Poems whose words and line arrangements look like a physical object. You know, like George Herbert's 'Easter Wings' which used to be on every high school…
When was the last time you ran across a concrete poem? Poems whose words and line arrangements look like a physical object. You know, like George Herbert's 'Easter Wings' which used to be on every high school…
Interesting distinction. Can you really separate yourself from your shadow? Or are you the shadow?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Alison C. Rollins’s #poem ‘A Bell Is A Bearer Of Time.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Alison C. Rollins’s #poem ‘A Bell Is A Bearer Of Time.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Interesting distinction. Can you really separate yourself from your shadow? Or are you the shadow?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Alison C. Rollins’s #poem ‘A Bell Is A Bearer Of Time.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-25 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Alison C. Rollins’s #poem ‘A Bell Is A Bearer Of Time.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Apt, this morning, the last geese are breaking off and taking the sun with them.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from C.L. O’Dell’s #poem ‘Sweethearts’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from C.L. O’Dell’s #poem ‘Sweethearts’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 24, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Apt, this morning, the last geese are breaking off and taking the sun with them.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from C.L. O’Dell’s #poem ‘Sweethearts’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-24 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from C.L. O’Dell’s #poem ‘Sweethearts’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Such confusion indeed. Good thing we know how to mask our ways through it, right my homies?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-23 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Nome Emeka Patrick’s #poem ‘Smile’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-23 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Nome Emeka Patrick’s #poem ‘Smile’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 23, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Such confusion indeed. Good thing we know how to mask our ways through it, right my homies?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-23 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Nome Emeka Patrick’s #poem ‘Smile’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-23 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Nome Emeka Patrick’s #poem ‘Smile’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Who are you going to share this with? Who’s your good day?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-22 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Thomás Q. Morín’s #poem ‘Stunt Double.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-22 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Thomás Q. Morín’s #poem ‘Stunt Double.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Who are you going to share this with? Who’s your good day?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-22 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Thomás Q. Morín’s #poem ‘Stunt Double.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-22 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Thomás Q. Morín’s #poem ‘Stunt Double.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Well, it could be worse I suppose.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-21 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Isabel Galleymore’s #poem ‘Forever, It Appears.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-21 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Isabel Galleymore’s #poem ‘Forever, It Appears.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 21, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Well, it could be worse I suppose.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-21 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Isabel Galleymore’s #poem ‘Forever, It Appears.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-21 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Isabel Galleymore’s #poem ‘Forever, It Appears.’
#poetrysky 💙📚
Living as far north as we do, the darkness is about to take over what feels like most of the clock. Death and rebirth. Winter.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-20 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from @daniellevogel.bsky.social ‘s #poem “Drifts.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-20 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from @daniellevogel.bsky.social ‘s #poem “Drifts.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 20, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Living as far north as we do, the darkness is about to take over what feels like most of the clock. Death and rebirth. Winter.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-20 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from @daniellevogel.bsky.social ‘s #poem “Drifts.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-20 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from @daniellevogel.bsky.social ‘s #poem “Drifts.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
I will admit that this anthology had a little more Allen Ginsberg in it that I was expecting. It also has only a couple of women poets, though one of those is the amazing Diane di Prima. Still, this little volume was a joy to read every morning. The perfect way to start the day.
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Six, “City Lights Pocket Poets Anthology” edited by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
My desire to return to San Francisco is what is driving my creativity this morning.
paulpearson.ca
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I will admit that this anthology had a little more Allen Ginsberg in it that I was expecting. It also has only a couple of women poets, though one of those is the amazing Diane di Prima. Still, this little volume was a joy to read every morning. The perfect way to start the day.
Why did no one warn me about Jordan Abel’s “Empty Spaces”?!? I started in on it earlier this evening and I’m not certain my soul is ever going to be able to return to my body. Seriously, wtf is even going on?
October 19, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Why did no one warn me about Jordan Abel’s “Empty Spaces”?!? I started in on it earlier this evening and I’m not certain my soul is ever going to be able to return to my body. Seriously, wtf is even going on?
Ambition.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-18 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Cristina Peri Rossi’s #poem “Midnight, Barcelona Metro.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-18 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Cristina Peri Rossi’s #poem “Midnight, Barcelona Metro.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 18, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Ambition.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-18 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Cristina Peri Rossi’s #poem “Midnight, Barcelona Metro.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-18 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Cristina Peri Rossi’s #poem “Midnight, Barcelona Metro.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Proof of life.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-17 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s #poem “L I S T E N !”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-17 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s #poem “L I S T E N !”
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Proof of life.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-17 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s #poem “L I S T E N !”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-17 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Vladimir Mayakovsky’s #poem “L I S T E N !”
#poetrysky 💙📚
It seems the madness has always been gathering. For whom do you thunder?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-16 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Diane di Prima’s #poem “April Fool Birthday Poem For Grandpa”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-16 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Diane di Prima’s #poem “April Fool Birthday Poem For Grandpa”
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
It seems the madness has always been gathering. For whom do you thunder?
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-16 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Diane di Prima’s #poem “April Fool Birthday Poem For Grandpa”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-16 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Diane di Prima’s #poem “April Fool Birthday Poem For Grandpa”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Now that is how you end a poem, emptying your readers’ lungs in one existential rush.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-15 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Allen Ginsberg’s #poem “from Kaddish”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-15 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Allen Ginsberg’s #poem “from Kaddish”
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 15, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Now that is how you end a poem, emptying your readers’ lungs in one existential rush.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-15 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Allen Ginsberg’s #poem “from Kaddish”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-15 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Allen Ginsberg’s #poem “from Kaddish”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Manifesto.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-14 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s #poem “While The Sun Still Spends His Fabulous Money”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-14 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s #poem “While The Sun Still Spends His Fabulous Money”
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 14, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Manifesto.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-14 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s #poem “While The Sun Still Spends His Fabulous Money”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-14 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s #poem “While The Sun Still Spends His Fabulous Money”
#poetrysky 💙📚
I have never felt more seen.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-13 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s “ #poem “The Origin Of Baseball.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-13 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s “ #poem “The Origin Of Baseball.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
October 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I have never felt more seen.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-13 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s “ #poem “The Origin Of Baseball.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-13 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from Kenneth Patchen’s “ #poem “The Origin Of Baseball.”
#poetrysky 💙📚
This week on the blog: Samantha Jones and the Worry Maps of Doom.
Slow Reading Poetry Project 2025, Week Thirty-Five, “Attic Rain” by Samantha Jones
Samantha Jones's and the Worry Maps of Doom is what is driving my creativity this week.
paulpearson.ca
October 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
This week on the blog: Samantha Jones and the Worry Maps of Doom.
As we asphyxiate under turbocapitalism, small acts of noncompliance can keep us alive.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-11 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-11 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 11, 2025 at 4:41 PM
As we asphyxiate under turbocapitalism, small acts of noncompliance can keep us alive.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-11 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-11 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Sunday’s micro-review might just be told through the lens of this one poem. So relatable.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Sunday’s micro-review might just be told through the lens of this one poem. So relatable.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-10 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚