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Explore Haiku with Gary Schroeder
If you’ve read Gary Schroeder’s wonderful collection of haiku After Rain—and if you haven’t, loosen up that index finger and order a copy here—you’ll want to explore “being present” in his haiku upcoming haiku workshop.Read More
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A Beautiful Way to Start the New Year
My good friend Gary Schroeder, who co-coordinates the First Saturday Poetry Series at BookBar and who writes marvelous poetry, has a new book, After Rain, coming from Folded Word, a fine indie publisher based in New Hampshire. Gary’s poems are rendered in gorgeous calligraphy by JS Graustein, the moving force behind Folded Word who is also a photographer and writer of fine lyrical prose. And, as you can see from the cover below, I wrote the foreword.Read More
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Sneaking Through the Gate
Thanks to Scott Wiggerman and Constance Campbell at Dos Gatos Press for letting a couple of my haiku build a nest in their fine anthology Lifting the Sky: Southwestern Haiku and Haiga. They generously offered suggestions for both that improved them immensely, for which I’m grateful.Read More
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Hai-cool
Ce Rosenow, Poet and Ownerof Mountains and Rivers Press Somehow, a couple of weeks back, probably because I was swamped with end-of-term classwork, I missed this delicious essay by Ce Rosenow (“the undisputed Queen of Hai-cool”). The idea that you may have missed it because of me—well, I’ll just have to live with the shame.Read More
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Walk It Off
REPUBLICAN HEALTH CARE HAIKUby Stephen Colbert blood in the urine,a tingling down the left arm:walk it off, grandmaRead More
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Hello, New Birders
A hearty howdy to three new Perpetual Birders. One is a current student of mine and budding poet, Lacey Bodensteiner. I look forward to her comments here! Then there is Mark Brooks, creator of the highly (hai-li?) energetic online haiku publication haijinx. Mark has been very smart about using social media (haijinx is on both Twitter and Facebook); even better, he’s been smart about the work he presents at haijinx. Give it a look! Finally, for this round at least, there is Richard from Blackhawk, South Dakota.Read More
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Words for Japan
Melissa Allen has a wonderful new edition of her Across the Haikuverse series of blog entries. It’s focus is haiku and other significant communications from earthquake-shaken, tsunami-battered Japan.Read More
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Perpetual Birder Alert
Here’s a shout-out to our newest Perpetual Birders. Gillena Cox joins us from Saint James in Trinidad and Tobago, where she writes poetry and practices photography. Novelist and poet Lynne Rees lives in France and is always hungry. (Aren’t we all?) She also maintains a fine haiku/haibun blog called an open field and runs the AppleHouse Poetry Workshop. Finally, we have John W. May, the only Perpetual Birder (I believe) who is also an ophthalmic technician. He blogs at Of Poetry and lives in Aurora, Colorado.Read More
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An Interview with Ce Rosenow
I reviewed Ce’s book Pacific awhile back, and earlier wrote about her work as co-editor (with Bob Arnold) of Cid Corman’s The Next One Thousand Years.Read More
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A New Year’s Surprise
I responded yesterday to a New Year’s haiku/tanka challenge at Issa’s Untidy Hut and was delighted this morning to find one of my poems among the three runners up. Many thanks to the blog’s author Don Wentworth, editor of my favorite micro-magazine, Lilliput Review.Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
