• far from failed_haiku

    It has been a couple of months since the one of a kind haikai journal shut its doors. I have noticed it to be the fate of several journals these days, and wonder if it has to do with editor-burnout. One does get exhausted with taking care of life while at the same time running…

  • "Holy crapadoodle!"

    I had heard of Ben Gaa from his poetry and heard him on Patricia’s Poetry Pea podcast, which incidentally is my first haiku school. The one I very clearly remember is this one Pea TV Uncut Workshop: Ben Gaa – Haiku without me When Reid Hepworth, my gifted haijin friend forwarded me the YouTube link where…

  • Silver Linings

    Looking back, I just realized that I hadn’t posted the video of Morningside After Dark show.  This show brings warmth into our midwestern winters. Covid did try to put a damper on the show but technology has helped us stay together, stay sane. Here’s the video of the Morningside After Dark January show on the…

  • NaPoWriMo 22

     In 1996, Academy of American Poets launched National Poetry Month. Poetry keeps me grounded, helps me heal, helps me climb the mountains I was never prepared to overcome. How about you?  To celebrate, I will try to participate in the National Poetry Writing month NaPoWriMo. Yea, yea, “Do or do not. There is no try” but…

  • War News

     No good news.  Not even meh news.  It’s war.  It’s tears.  It’s the worst of human nature. Open door poetry magazine‘s March issue was a cry to rally behind Ukraine. I knew I just had to be a part of it.   And I wonder when will it stop? When?