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“Life is anarchic, in the middle, lived at its midpoint. If nothing else, it is energetic.”
Jill Pearlman is a poet, writer and journalist. A Pittsburgh native, she moved to Providence to study art history at Brown, then moved to Manhattan to write music and arts journalism (Paper Magazine, Us, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Spin). She lived many years in France (Paris, Perpignan), continuing to write and raise two daughters. She now finds herself back in Providence.
Her poems, not surprisingly, wander the world as impatient travelers armed with keen perception, wit and an outsider’s eye for culture and place. They breathe in the air of fresh language. They are informed by spontaneity and the innate life of things, Jewish spirituality and French modernists.
“Diaspora of Things” is one in a series of ever-expanding sequences which explore ecstasy in the decentered self and world. A paired chapbook sequence, Capital G, as in The Garden, will be published in Ravenna Press’s “Triple Series” in early 2026. It is a contrarian piece that posits that the Garden is here, now, if we could only grasp it. The first sequence is set in a Portuguese monastery and riffs on the Song of Songs. The second, “My Heredom,” sees all things cojoin in the rich lifescape and landscape of the Azores islands. Her new in-progress, full-length manuscript hones in on her great subject, Chaos, an immersion in and study of our multi-voiced reality.