Weathergrams by Lloyd J. Reynolds This month I want to elaborate a little on the career of Lloyd Reynolds, the poet and calligrapher who created Weathergrams, featured in a recent THF Book of the Week posting. Lloyd J. Reynolds (1902–1978) was an American calligrapher and professor at Reed … [Read more...]
Library Acquisitions Spring 2016
A Poet Who Writes Tattoos, by Kathleen Holder — a look from 2000 at the career of the recently deceased Mexican/American poet, Francisco Alarcon. Haikai Poetics: Buson, Kito and the Interpretation of Renku Poetry, a thesis by Herbert Jonsson. Typology and Poetry: Richard Gilbert Experiments, … [Read more...]
Librarian’s Cache: Mike Spikes on Jack Kerouac
Haiku and Ockham’s Razor: The Example of Jack Kerouac by Mike Spikes Who hasn’t thought, at one time or another, of writing a novel? My first story idea came to me at age ten and it was about prisoners of war struggling to survive harsh treatment at the hands of my fifth-grade, home room teacher, … [Read more...]
Librarian’s Cache: Ty Hadman on Helen Chenoweth
Helen Stiles Chenoweth by Ty Hadman In an essay almost as lyrical as the poetry it celebrates, Ty Hadman discusses the haiku of Helen Chenoweth. He finds in her work alone almost sufficient reason to divert attention from the works of the past toward modern American accomplishments in this form. … [Read more...]