{"id":2146,"count":1,"description":"<strong>Barbara Pelman <\/strong>\u00a0is a retired high school English teacher, born in Vancouver and now living in Victoria. She is a frequent participant and assistant at Planet Earth Poetry, the weekly poetry venue. She has three published books of poetry: One Stone (Ekstasis Editions 2005), Borrowed Rooms (Ronsdale Press 2008) and Narrow Bridge (Ronsdale Press 2017), a chapbook Aubade Amalfi (Rubicon Press 2016), and a manuscript to be published Spring 2023 by Caitlin Press.\r\n\r\nIn 2018 her glosa, \u201cNevertheless\u201d won the Malahat Open Season Poetry Contest. Previously, in 2004 and in 2014, she won the BC Federation of Writers\u2019 poetry contest. Her poems can be found in literary journals and the anthologies \u201cRefugium\u201d and \u201cSweet Water\u201d (Caitlin Press), and \u201cIn Fine Form\u201d (Caitlin Press) as well as on the buses. [provided with the poem \u201cSH'MA: HEAR\u201d]","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/creator\/barbara-pelman\/","name":"Barbara Pelman","slug":"barbara-pelman","taxonomy":"category","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/2146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=2146"},{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resources?categories=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}