Rain and no walk today
As April continues and my poetry vacation goes on, I now realize it’s not about some feeble protest to NPM, but instead a time of reevaluation. I need to step back and assess my relationship with poetry. Or as religious fundamentalists would have it, my personal relationship with the word. Not as some link in a continuum. Or some voice within a community. Or even some student of its craft. Be it past, present, or future. And not persona, just me.
to be continued
A THOUSAND HILLS
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Masaoka Shiki — the fellow who attempted to “reform” hokku into what he
called “haiku” near the beginning of the 20th century — wrote a lot of bad
verses, ...
2 weeks ago

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