Periplum

Periplum is a section that is devoted to 20th and 21st century haiku from around the world

Periplum #10: Slavko Sedlar
BY David G. Lanoue

The word “suchness” evokes, in the lexicon of Zen Buddhism, a vivid perceiving of the here-and-now reality of a thing—not thoughts about a thing but the thing itself, just the way it [...]

Periplum is a section that is devoted to 20th and 21st century haiku from around the world. Periplum is overseen by David G. Lanoue. For an introduction to this section, see Periplum.

Periplum #9: Chie Aiko
BY David G. Lanoue

Last installment, we considered haiku written by Ami Tanaka, a quietly cerebral and intoxicatingly complex poet from [...]

Periplum is a section that is devoted to 20th and 21st century haiku from around the world. Periplum is overseen by David G. Lanoue. For an introduction to this section, see Periplum.

Periplum #8: Ami Tanaka
BY David G. Lanoue

Ami Tanaka was born in Tokyo on October 8, 1970. I learned this fact from the introduction to [...]

Periplum is a section that is devoted to 20th and 21st century haiku from around the world. Periplum is overseen by David G. Lanoue. For an introduction to this section, see Periplum.

Periplum #7: Saša Važić
BY David G. Lanoue

Some haiku—let’s call them “special haiku”—take hold in our minds and imaginations so deeply that we can never, [...]

Periplum #6: Casmiro de Brito

By David G. Lanoue

Casimiro de Brito is a prolific writer of essays, fiction and poetry who, from time to time, also writes haiku. He is the author of fifty books. His works have appeared in more than 180 anthologies and translated into 25 languages. The president of the General Assembly [...]