I hope 2012 is off to a great start for you. I’m looking forward to a year of reading, writing, art and spending time with all kinds of readers, writers, and artists.
I’ll continue my haiku journey. What a thrill to learn my proposal for the 43rd Annual Children’s Literature Conference in Georgia this spring was accepted: a workshop titled, “Haiku How-to.” I look forward to sharing ways to explore haiku in the classroom with teachers, media specialists, and other lovers of children’s literature.
Also, I’m happy to celebrate some recent acceptances – my haiku will appear in the next issues of Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and A Hundred Gourds.
In the current (December) issue of Notes from the Gean, I have a lighthearted poem on p. 42:
autumn breeze
escorted to the mailbox
by an acorn
~ Notes from the Gean, December 2011
and then this one, on the same page:
same blue
as ten years ago
empty sky
~ Notes from the Gean, December 2011
I wrote that haiku on a cloudless early September day, when the depth of my sadness upon the tenth anniversary of 9/11 caught me off guard.
(Be sure to check out Diane Mayr’s wonderful haiga in this same issue on p. 47.)
Poet, friend, and Berry Blue Haiku editor Gisele LeBlanc (click here and here for recent posts featuring Gisele) has had haiku in several issues of Notes from the Gean, including these two:
in an urban sky
birds shift in unison-
drifting ice
~ Notes from the Gean, September 2010
Virgin Islands-
laughing gulls mingle
on the beach
~ Notes from the Gean, June 2011
Notes from the Gean features haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun, linked forms, and resources (interviews, essays, reviews). Published quarterly, it’s one of several great resources for enjoying and learning about haiku and related genres.
To enjoy more great poetry in a variety of forms, check out the Poetry Friday Roundup hosted today by Tara at A Teaching Life.
I’ll continue my haiku journey. What a thrill to learn my proposal for the 43rd Annual Children’s Literature Conference in Georgia this spring was accepted: a workshop titled, “Haiku How-to.” I look forward to sharing ways to explore haiku in the classroom with teachers, media specialists, and other lovers of children’s literature.
Also, I’m happy to celebrate some recent acceptances – my haiku will appear in the next issues of Modern Haiku, The Heron’s Nest, and A Hundred Gourds.
In the current (December) issue of Notes from the Gean, I have a lighthearted poem on p. 42:
autumn breeze
escorted to the mailbox
by an acorn
~ Notes from the Gean, December 2011
and then this one, on the same page:
same blue
as ten years ago
empty sky
~ Notes from the Gean, December 2011
I wrote that haiku on a cloudless early September day, when the depth of my sadness upon the tenth anniversary of 9/11 caught me off guard.
(Be sure to check out Diane Mayr’s wonderful haiga in this same issue on p. 47.)
Poet, friend, and Berry Blue Haiku editor Gisele LeBlanc (click here and here for recent posts featuring Gisele) has had haiku in several issues of Notes from the Gean, including these two:
in an urban sky
birds shift in unison-
drifting ice
~ Notes from the Gean, September 2010
Virgin Islands-
laughing gulls mingle
on the beach
~ Notes from the Gean, June 2011
Notes from the Gean features haiku, tanka, haiga, haibun, linked forms, and resources (interviews, essays, reviews). Published quarterly, it’s one of several great resources for enjoying and learning about haiku and related genres.
To enjoy more great poetry in a variety of forms, check out the Poetry Friday Roundup hosted today by Tara at A Teaching Life.