Pearl Pirie has 3 collections published and a bunch
of chapbooks. Pirie was director of the Tree Reading Series and is
president of regional haiku group KaDo, is on the organizing committee for VERSeFest and
the board of Friends of Wakefield Library. www.pearlpirie.com or on
twitter @pesbo.
How did
you first engage with poetry?
Short
Answer: Each moment is
the start.
Long
Answer: I always was
around verses. I was reading the stuff in textbooks of the 1920s-1940s which I
grew up on. It was in the antique books I collected, in the bible tracts that
fell like plucked geese feathers around the house. In books given to me, the
Fireside series from my father’s aunt.
The notion
of Poetry is a weird one. Silence is poetry when well-timed. Jingles, songs,
headlines, well-written dense prose, a well-phrased story or joke, all can have
the same essence as poetry of dense musical ideas. Poetry constructs a need
then meets it. A propaganda that soothes and/or stirs to action.
Poetry
engages me when it stretch me with something I think I know, paired with
something I think I don’t. It is something half-offered or fully offered that
risks something that it doesn’t need to risk. Or offers a parable that needs
reinforcing, such as: order or compassion or beauty are possible.
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