Welcome to our ninth renku session under the sponsorship of The Haiku Foundation. This has been a Jûnichô (twelve verse) renku, under the guidance of John Stevenson. I really enjoyed the discussion this week. Many good ideas offered. You will see that I have made almost no changes but that does … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Finding A Breeze
Grant Savage, Canadian poet and nature photographer, has a very good eye for the unusual detail that makes for a story. His Hexagram chapbook from 2009, Finding a Breeze, is our Book of the Week. paper mill scent now I know where I am children gone the wind … [Read more...]
Still Time to Nominate a Poem for a 2018 Touchstone
Thanks to all who have already nominated haiku for the 2018 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. For those of you who haven’t, consider your own favorite haiku published in 2018, and a favorite by a fellow poet. This is a great way to think about your own haiku writing during the year and … [Read more...]
re:Virals 170
Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was if trees could be landlords — Eve Luckring, Heron's Nest XVII:3 (2015) Christina Pecoraro states her conditions: Eve … [Read more...]
A Sense of Place: CITY SIDEWALK – smell
A Sense of Place In his essay ‘So:ba’, given at the International Haiku Conference (SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, 2008) and published serially in Frogpond, Jim Kacian discusses the concept of ba: “If you look up ba in any Japanese-English Dictionary you'll find it means “place” or … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: sleeping bear
Kurt Westley’s work, with its jagged edges and hyperreal images, often with a strident tone, pushes the envelope of haiku, but a careful consideration of his poems yields a clarity easy to overlook. Which is unfortunate, since the poems to be found in sleeping bear are … [Read more...]
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