Welcome to another Renku session. I am Linda Papanicolaou. The renku I have been leading is an Imachi, an 18-verse form from Renku Masters Shunjin and Seijo Okamoto (“Waiting for the Moon,” 1984). Like Junicho, the other form they gave us, Imachi is a single-sheet renku though it … [Read more...]
re:Virals 153
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 just-fledged light chips of wren song from the log pile — Claire Everett, Presence #45 (2001) Marion Clarke … [Read more...]
A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN – sight
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: as far as I can
Our Book of the Week is as far as I can, by Dietmar Tauchner, published by Red Moon Press in 2010. Tauchner is editor-in-chief of Chrysanthemum, the fine, German/English haiku journal, and a fine haiku poet in both languages. In this collection, Dietmar attempts to come to terms … [Read more...]
re:Virals 152
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 ラジオ鳴って留守か留守居か花マンガ Radio blaring. Is he out, or just pretending to be out? Mango flowers . . . — Taki … [Read more...]
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