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
“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 💙📚
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 💙📚
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 💙📚
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 💙📚
OCD lessons for all of us.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
OCD lessons for all of us.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-09 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
No, my dear Hamlets, THIS is the question.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
No, my dear Hamlets, THIS is the question.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-08 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Have I mentioned how much I love a good title? A really good one like this will rattle around my brain for days. Say it out loud a few times. Be with it.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-07 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking title comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-07 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking title comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 7, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Have I mentioned how much I love a good title? A really good one like this will rattle around my brain for days. Say it out loud a few times. Be with it.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-07 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking title comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-07 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking title comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
We really, really, really need to know.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-06 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-06 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 6, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We really, really, really need to know.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-06 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-06 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking line comes to us from Samantha Jones.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
We know, we all know this pain.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-04 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from June Jordan.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-04 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from June Jordan.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
October 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
We know, we all know this pain.
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-04 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from June Jordan.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚
Slow Reading #Poetry Project 2025-10-04 paulpearson.ca/the-blog/
Today’s striking lines come to us from June Jordan.
#poem #poetrysky 💙📚