Haiku and the Third Table I would like to take as an object the entire object of haiku, considering haiku as a genre — not a collection of objects but an indeterminate, withheld object that no matter how many times it is examined in all of the sensual properties and perspectives of all the poems … [Read more...]
Creative Blooms 6: With Risk
Without risk there can be no honest passion; no way to meet with what is beyond oneself. With risk often comes wounds; a truism of love, if not of bungee-jumping. Below, a few quotes on the topic, drawn from contemporary literature: We need people in our lives … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Nothing Left To Say
Capturing the minor, but telling tensions and frictions that often characterize human relationships in everyday situations is stock in trade for Roberta Beary’s excellent haiku. Nothing Left to Say, edited by Michael Dylan Welch, is her contribution, graciously ending the … [Read more...]
re:Virals 195
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 an octopus in her father’s lungs . . . first autumn rain — Reka Nyitrai, Otata 36. Alan Summers presents his … [Read more...]
re:Virals 176
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 turning away from the pear tree... turning back — Roberta Beary, The Unworn Necklace Snapshot Press (2007) … [Read more...]
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