The Haiku Foundation honors the work of contemporary masters of the dual art of haiga: visual image wedded to haiku. This month’s featured artist is Jean LeBlanc.
Jean LeBlanc lives in Newton, New Jersey, though her roots are in central New England. She is an assistant professor of English at Sussex County Community College. She writes both short-form and long-form poetry. Her publications include Just Passing Through: Tanka, Haiku, Haibun (Paulinskill Poetry Project, 2007), The Haiku Aesthetic Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft (Cyberwit.net, 2013), The Opposite of Bird: Haiku and Haibun (Cyberwit.net, 2015), and two books from Modern English Tanka Press, Where We Go (2010) and The Stream Singing Your Name (2009). Visit her blog about poetry and the creative process.
quickstep
quickstep every romance should last this longMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
memory’s arc
memory’s arc — the pears from his grandfather’s farm the blight, the burning of the treesMedia: paper collage Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
memory
memory almost every one a bird flies throughMedia: paper collage and feather Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
distance
distance and now what oh we turn to stoneMedia: paper collage Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2017
shadow
on the dance floor the shadow of a dreamMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
between partners
between partners a constellation of pearls on the dancer’s backMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
the heron
lopsided syntax recalling the heron at duskMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
mnemonics
mnemonics — the memorized poem becomes usMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2014
not here
just not here so many birds in so many treesMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2015
end of summer
end of summer this could be our last hummingbirdMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
masterpiece
between galleries her shadow a masterpieceMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016
winter meadow
winter meadow the grace of broken thingsMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2017
wind direction
east or west everything we once knew about the windMedia: digital photograph Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2014
poor posture
November poor posture in this wind-swept placeMedia: paper collage Provenance: artist’s collection Year: 2016