Poetry

BY MICHAEL DOM THERE IS AN ANCIENT Japanese tradition of haiku written as collective verses by several different poets, which is called haikai no renga (usually 100 pieces in length). If it is considered appropriate perhaps we could attempt to...  

A group of nine gathers around a long yellow table at the Red House Cafe. Seated at the head of the table are Jim Emmons and his wife, Wendy Kaplan, a poet. A new packet of pens rests next to poetry books. The Love Haiku Workshop began Saturday ...  

Business Monday is looking for haiku with an economic them. Are you impacted or concerned about unemployment, low housing prices, too many foreclosures, Europe on the brink, pay cuts and layoffs. Are you still fed up or do you see better days around the corner? Please feel free to riff on our current economic conditions but make sure you keep it to 17 syllables and wrestle it into three unrhymed lines in the 5-7-5 format. Haiku should also...  

CHARLOTTE — The Charlotte Writers’ Club is again sponsoring its prestigious Deane Ritch Lomax Poetry Prize. Poets from North Carolina and South Carolina are encouraged to submit traditional and non-traditional styles (no haiku poems). First-place ...  

February is NaHaiWriMo: National Haiku Writing Month. I've been posting a daily haiku on Twitter and Facebook. These are my tweets from the first week.My February 5 haiku takes its cue from "Bird life badly hit by nuclear fallout in Japan" (David McNeill, Irish Times, Feb. 3). Its line "a cuckoo cries" is taken from Basho's haiku 1a, here. Elissa Malcohn's Deviations and Other JourneysPromote Your Page Too Vol. 1, Deviations: Covenant...  

Welfare states' debt due Ratings downgrades, states default Euro muddles through Arthur Diamond The haiku above was my entry in response to the haiku challenge in the Kauffman Foundation's First Quarter 2012 survey "of top economics bloggers." The haiku...  

Here is some party trivia for you: February is National Haiku Writing Month. How does one celebrate National Haiku Writing Month? Simply write one haiku a day. Too much of a commitment? What about trying a couple? If you’re an English teacher ...  

The mysteries of why I am me and you are you are, to no small degree, coded in our DNA. The social differences that cause us so much irritation -- the calm versus the fidgeters, the extroverts versus the introverts -- almost certainly have some basis in ...  

went by, the thin, the thread, so thin, this thread, are you still / here, is it still, your heart, is it well / well welling? Nick Flynn is a poet, playwright and memoirist whose most recent book is "The Captain Asks for a Show of Hands" (2011, Graywolf ...  

Back in the depressing days of late 2009, Business Monday invited readers to wax poetic on the economy. We were fed up with high unemployment, short sales, foreclosures, rock-bottom housing prices, empty condominium towers, Ponzi schemers and a ...  

“I don’t know where that comes from. We did a collaboration several years go called ‘Full Moon Haiku’ in which I wrote a number of Haiku (poems) based on the full moons and their different Indian names and Sophia came up with a beautiful ...  

A long time ago a very shy young girl was introduced to the art of haiku by her elementary school teacher. It seemed so exotic, a foreign sounding verse that stumped my mom, and opened the door to poetic expression. I was amazed by how words ...  

In short, Emily Dickinson is not someone you're supposed to trifle with. Her poetry is sacrosanct, isn't it? Well, no. As Westfield poet Everett Decker sees it, Dickinson's work is both beautiful and distinct, but it can also be difficult to approach ...  

WORCESTER — David Judkins decided to use a Haiku for his entry in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. poetry contest, because the style deviates from the usual, as did Rev. King. “Haiku is off the beaten path, and I used it to show that he was ...  

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