Book of the Week – Looking Back: A Conversation with George Swede
George shares his first attempts at writing haiku, how English-language haiku has evolved over the years and other topics.
Haiku Comics of The Hamilton Bay — “wordless redux”
Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay is a biweekly comics feature from Monica Plant.
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Dan Campbell—an invisible force: commentaries on "about the wind / three windmills agree" by Marie-Thérèse Taylor
Book of the Week – Where Waves Were by Robert Mainone
His haiku have appeared on T-shirts, gift cards, and address labels "penny poems", etched on cobalt drinking cups, on large color photographs, and on city buses.
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Harrison Lightwater — intriguing, engaging and elusive: comments on "how we ended/flower thrower" by CX Turner
Book of the Week – Haiku: A 1965 Collection of Haiku by Canadian Poet Claire Pratt
Mildred Claire Pratt (18 March 1921 – 5 April 1995) was a Canadian artist, poet and editor.
Haiku Comics of The Hamilton Bay — “riches”
Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay is a biweekly comics feature from Monica Plant.
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Beata Czeszejko — everything is possible, even rebellion: commentaries on "helping/to cook the dinner/Bob Dylan" by Helene Guojah.
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Sushama Kapur — hiding from 'It': commentaries on "stillness/ not even a peep/from the peepers" by Robin White
Book of the Week – The Anabasis of Man: Parallel Haiku by Michael O’Brien
Micheline Beaudry (born June 29, 1942, Montréal, Québec, Canada), retired social worker and haiku organizer and poet.
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Ruth Happel — a haunting poem: commentaries on "they have/ a list of demands/redwoods" by Cherie Hunter Day.
Haiku Comics of The Hamilton Bay — “semaphore”
Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay is a biweekly comics feature from Monica Plant.
Book of the Week – A Book of Seasons by New Zealander Dick Whyte
Micheline Beaudry (born June 29, 1942, Montréal, Québec, Canada), retired social worker and haiku organizer and poet.
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Scott Metz — more than an easy reading... Commentaries on his poem "the sound of the earth..." (which doesn't format well in a single line of UTF).
Book of the Week – The Water’s Night by Micheline Beaudry and translated by Mike Montreuil
Micheline Beaudry (born June 29, 1942, Montréal, Québec, Canada), retired social worker and haiku organizer and poet.
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Beata Czeszejko — freedom is the big theme: commentaries on "old age home/the sudden urge/to climb a tree" by John Pappas
Haiku Comics of The Hamilton Bay — “cursive”
Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay is a biweekly comics feature from Monica Plant.
Book of the Week – Torii Haiku: Profane to a Sacred Life by David H. Rosen
David trained as a psychiatrist at the Langley Porter Institute in San Francisco.
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Amoolya Kamalnath — a powerful monoku: commentaries on "moon shot the american way" by Helen Buckingham
Book of the Week: Deer Heart by Stephen Toft
His work has been included in international journals and anthologies.