Down on Bended Knee
My haiku on New Verse News:
https://newversenews.blogspot.com/2020/05/down-on-bended-knee.html
NPR – Haiku Featured by Jane Hirshfield
My same haiku that Danez Smith chose to comment on also was featured on Apr. 26, 2020 by poet Jane Hirshfield who said a poet is quite prepared for a pandemic:
National Public Radio
For National Poetry Month poet Danez Smith chose one of my haiku to be featured. All Things Considered has a poet each week choose a couple of poems that resonated with them. Even during the pandemic quarantining National Poetry Month goes on:
A Window into Haiku
The Haiku Foundation’s Troutswirl blog has been featuring a weekly haiku segment on the theme of windows. Curated by Kathy Munro (kjmunro) each week is a different window such as hospital window, storm window, train/subway window, window cleaner, etc. If anyone would like to participate you can check it out here: https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/category/archives/haiku-windows/. Kathy, a haiku poet in the Yukon Territory, Canada, does a wonderful job selecting from among the submitted haiku and commenting on a couple of her selections each week. Here is my storm window haiku followed by her commentary:
a sea of storm windows
all along
the evacuation routeSari Grandstaff
Saugerties, NY, USA
Those of us who are fortunate enough to have never personally experienced a flood, have probably seen the footage on the news of other places in the world… this is an extremely powerful poem because of the calm, detached description of a scene of destruction and devastation – the reader is not instructed how to feel…
Samurai Senryu
Interesting article by Dave Lowry on senryu in the October/November 2016 issue of Black Belt magazine.
Join or Renew Haiku Society of America Membership
Just a friendly reminder to renew membership for 2014 if you have not already. If you have not joined before, please consider it. The Frogpond subscription alone is so worth it. Plus you get Ripples newsletter with haiku news of regional and national events. Check out all the benefits of membership at http://www.hsa-haiku.org.
hoʻoponopono
I did this last year when I was at Kripalu. It is a type of Hawaiian kirtan where you chant these four phrases. You chant for someone and then last you chant for yourself. The four phrases are:
I love you
I am sorry
Please forgive me
Thank you
Haiku Society of America National Meeting in Seattle
June 21 – 23, 2013 is the Haiku Society of America national meeting in Seattle. Information can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/haikunorthwest/meetings-1/hsa-national-meeting-2013
All are welcome and if you are a haiku enthusiast and/or just interested in haiku poetry please attend. A great schedule of events and it is free.
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