Bookstories 41: George Swede Found
Was George Swede switched at birth with another famous Canadian author? Find out in his bookstory . . .
Bookstories 40: An Even Dozen
Every book tells its story, but what of the other story, the story behind the book? Bookstories offers an opportunity to tell that story. If you have a story about a book or poem you would like to share, contact…
Bookstories 38: A Promise Kept
Scott Mason tells the story of how The Heron's Nest's new book came to be.
Bookstories 37: Kristen Deming on “A Surprising Gift”
“I was fortunate to live in Japan for many years and to meet some of Japan’s top haiku poets . . .”
Bookstories 36: Jo Pacsoo on the Intimate Details of Death
“My second collection was really a kind of therapy . . .”
Bookstories 35: Tom Painting on His Mom (A Haikustory)
“Last winter at this very time [around Christmas] I flew to Rochester, NY to see my mother . . .”
Bookstories 34: Peter Newton on What We Find
“. . . letterpress. Every letter pressed by human force into the fibers of paper. An ancient art. Not sure I’d do it again . . .”
Bookstories 33: Jeanne Jorgensen on “Getting the Word Out”
“The book that I am proudest of though because it simply had to be written is And So It Was, poems for my father, 1998 . . .
Bookstories 32: Don Baird’s Haiku Wisdom
“My desire was to write a haiku book that moved haiku from the limitation of poetry to the larger arena of literature . . .”
Bookstories 31: Mankh’s Haiku One-Breaths
“A friend suggested the pocket-size, which afterwards seemed so obvious I wondered why I didn't think of it . . .”
Bookstories 30: Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic’s Seven Windows
“In Croatia we had our stubborn haiku master—the Japanologist, mathematician and academic, Vladimir Devidé—and his books could be borrowed from libraries . . .”
Bookstories 29: Zoe Savina’s The Enchantresses
“It was springtime when I had just cut off a rose protruding from an adjacent garden iron gate and pinned it onto my chest . . .”
Bookstories 28: Philomene Kocher’s Singing in the Silo
“I chose to leave the poems in chronological order. I felt this would be the most telling way to show how my poetry has changed over the years, as well as how I have changed . . .”
Bookstories 27: Robert Mainone’s An American Naturalist’s Haiku
“Unimaginable events brought me from the Detroit Zoological Park’s Education Division to what would become the Kalamazoo Nature Center . . .”
Bookstories 26: Sam Yada Cannarozzi’s “Story of a Haiku”
“During that first summer in Burgundy 1974, one day I was out walking in the fields with some friends . . .”
Bookstories 25: Ellen Peckham’s Haiga
“In winter of 2008 I rented a place in Montauk, the village at the tip of Long Island, so I could concentrate on the Spanish translations of my poems . . .”
Bookstories 24: John Martone’s “A Little Alone Time”
“You think you’ll have to give up this old book-making habit . . .”
Bookstories 23: Rebecca Lilly’s Shadwell Hills
“I've never picked up my first book without being reminded of Bob [Spiess] and the wisdom he shared not only about haiku, but Buddhist enlightenment, healing practices, and . . .”
Bookstories 22: Peter Butler’s “A Piece of Shrapnel”
“Not a lot happened in our suburban street in Kent, about 8 miles east of London, in the early days of World War II.”
Bookstories 21: Joseph Kirschner’s Edges
“Publishing was where I got my strokes. So, why not with haiku?”