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 a blade of grass between my fingers father’s whistle — Rachel Sutcliffe, Human/Kind Journal, Issue 1.2 … [Read more...]
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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: winter fog an old man turns back into a tree — John McManus, The Heron’s Nest, Volume XIV:4 Rich Schilling finds more questions … [Read more...]
Per Diem for May 2019: Wearable (Haiku)
This month, Marietta McGregor focuses our haiku lens on a practice which is uniquely human - wearing clothes. Her selection of haiku traverses the range of social functions and cultural norms of clothing. Clothing can be an agent of comfort, a form of adornment and an … [Read more...]
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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 visiting graves... we flicker as we walk down shadowed rows — Michael McClintock, Shadows in Time: Sixty … [Read more...]
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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 early dark the cathedral visible only as windows — Karen Hoy Another Country: Haiku Poetry from Wales (Gomer Press, … [Read more...]