the daily transmutation of muscle into marble
In Bones 19, p.154
Category Archives: Haiku
Haiku and Masters of Japanese prints
Great news about the project arranged by Alan Summers, Karen Hoy, and Bertel Martin in collaboration with the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery. Haiku sent by a number of haiku poets (one of mine included), were matched with Japanese block prints and are now displayed on the Museum website. A big thank you to Alan and Karen, and congratulations to all poets who took part.
From the Museum website:
In autumn 2019, poets from around the world responded to a call for haiku, a form of short Japanese poetry, based on Japanese prints in the collection at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery. People sent in more than 800 beautiful, thought-provoking poems from thirty countries worldwide. See the selection below.
Many poems were inspired by woodblock prints in our popular 2018-2019 exhibition series, Masters of Japanese Prints.
The project was arranged by haiku poets Alan Summers and Karen Hoy of creative writing consultancy Call of the Page. The call for poems was linked with a haiku workshop delivered at the museum with writer and producer Bertel Martin of City Chameleon.
Huge thanks to Alan, Karen and Bertel as well as to all the poets who took part. You are bringing the world together through poetry.
‘fleurs du mal’ haikufeltings 120
New article in jemr
Happy to see the article I co-authored “Reading English-language haiku: An eye-movement study of the ‘cut effect’” is now available in JEMR (Journal of Eye Movement Research).
The current study, set within the larger enterprise of Neuro-Cognitive Poetics, was designed to examine how readers deal with the ‘cut’ – a more or less sharp semantic-conceptual break – in normative, three-line English-language haiku poems (ELH)…
Do take a look!
119 haikufeltings (illness and war)
118 haikufeltings (raised eyebrows)
raised eyebrows the wine taster chews the wine
‘salt-laden winds’ 117 Haikufelting
salt-laden winds
sand sedge spreading its roots
underground
small reflections 2020 (20 Feb.) & haiga ‘the doves’
‘hard frost’ in MH
hard frost the hunter walks beside the blood trail
In Modern Haiku vol. 51.1., p.77, Winter-Spring 2020
‘Ammersee Symposium’ in Visual Cognition
Capturing a scientific symposium in a haiku sequence! Remember the #haiku sequence on the Ammersee conference I wrote in 2018? It was included with the conference proceedings in a special edition of Visual Cognition, Vol. 27, issues 5-8, May/September Routledge, 2019 – (scroll to p.2 of the editorial). Why have a volume of papers when you can describe the whole thing in a few haiku? 
Haikufeltings in MacQ
A new journal, a new hybrid, and a new year!
Honored and thrilled beyond measure to have the opportunity to describe my journey from “Hairballs to Haiga” in a “craft essay,” with four of my felting haiga “haikufeltings” in the debut issue of the Journal MacQueen’s Quinterly, MacQ for short (see URLs below). Grateful to Clare MacQueen for highlighting haikufeltings in her introduction to the issue, giving this hybrid work a home among such a superb collection of writings.
Check it out! And Happy New Year!
Essay
Felting haiga
Introduction to the issue (scroll down)
‘mistletoe’ in CKK
mistletoe/ the snowman starts/ to melt
Pleased to place 2nd in the Christmas Caribbean Kigo Kukai (CKK) 2019!
Congratulations to all participants!
JuxtaFive: The Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship
Great news! JuxtaFive is ready and available to read online! This edition of the Haiku Foundation Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship includes several articles, reviews, haiga and a special section on Women Mentoring Women (and the article Knocking on the Doors of Perception on Haiku and the Brain contributed by me and co-authors: Thomas Geyer, Franziska Guenther, Jim Kacian, Heinrich Liesefeld, and Hermann J. Mueller).
Here
Haikupedia, The presentation at HNA
Everything you wanted to know about Haikupedia, the Haiku Foundation encyclopedia of haiku!
Watch the presentation on Haikupedia given by Charles Trumbull, Dave Russo, and Jim Kacian at the Haiku North America Conference, August 2019.
‘morning frost’ 104 #haikufeltings
morning frost
the headlong rush
to colour
New Resonance Community video
Check out this video: “How I found my voice: A new Resonance Community Reading” from the Haiku North America Conference 2019. From Jim Kacian and Julie Warthers’s presentation on this Community of poets, including members reading out their work. Julie read out haiku by members not able to attend.
My own poem was read out, too:
atlas
the weight
of my dreams
The video was featured as part of this year’s Fundraiser running from Thanksgiving to St. Nicholas’s Day.
‘evening fog’ in Bones Journal
evening fog
the holes in the subtext
disappear
.
Very pleased to have this haiku in Bones 18, 15 November 2019, p. 150.
‘stepping into’ 103 Haikufeltings
stepping into
the same puddle twice . . .
new pair of boots
‘downsizing’
‘clinging’
clinging
to the surface of things ...
melting snow
Haiku in HSA Members' Anthology 2019. Photo of installation by the British artist Cathy Wilkes commissioned to create the British Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2019.
haiga
‘distracted’ 102 #haikufeltings
distracted again
tall reeds
in the wind
.
Wet-felted beret drying!
‘sunny day’ haiga
sunny day
tasting
togetherness
‘snail shell’ #haikufeltings
empty snail shell—
swishing sound of
the garden broom
Wet-felted headband
‘felted fish’ 100/100 #haikufeltings
ripples
the felted fish enters
Groom Lake
‘face lines’ 99/100 #haikufeltings
history maps
the shape and depth
of face lines
‘catching the light’ 98/100 #haikufeltings
harvest moon—
on the windowsill a bowl
catching the light
‘the right words’
not finding
the right words …
falling darkness
‘the long walk’
the long walk
towards the sea ...
Cley salt marsh
‘returning tide’
whether
I am here or not
returning tide
‘rusting metal’
maple leaves
the stillness of rusting
metal
Photo: Mike Nelson’s, The Asset Strippers atTate Britain, exuding an uncanny nostalgia and melancholy punctuated by the eerie creaking of the wooden doors as visitors move through the spaces of the Duveen Galleries.
