Welcome to Earth : poem for alien(s) muses on displacement, estrangement, and discovery. it began with a “what if?”: what if we were trying to describe “life” to an alien? how do we break down the complexity of living into essential elements? perhaps the poem could be seen as a kind of creation myth. perhaps life begins with light.

Amanda Earl’s poetry has been recently or will be soon published in Rampike (Windsor, Ontario), fillingStation (Calgary, Alberta), the New Chief Tongue (Mount Pleasant, Ontario), Peter F. Yacht Club (Ottawa, Ontario), some assembly required (pooka press, Vancouver, BC), Van Gogh’s Ear (Paris, France). Amanda’s chapbooks Eleanor and the Sad Phoenician’s Other Woman were published by above/ground press in 2007/2008. Amanda is the managing editor of Bywords.ca and the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and blogs too much at amandaearl.blogspot.com and ottawapoetry.blogspot.com.

18 pages; stapled and bound into printed wrappers
ISBN 978 1 897388 31 0
Fall 2008