![]() ![]() I frequently write about water and my favorite color is blue. I am the founder of the blog, Haiku Poet Interviews: ![]() I value respect and diversity, and am dedicated to creating new bridges and community in a world that far too often appears violent and fragmented. Inspired by the Great Seal of the United States, E Pluribus Unum, a Latin phrase that translates to: Out of Many, One. I frequently utilize Americans of Conscience to advocate for a better U.S. As a musician, I enjoy playing piano, guitar and tabla drums from India. I enjoy spending time with friends and family and have several interests, including: painting, drawing, photography, music, poetry, meditation, exercise, nutrition, neurobiology, medical coding, reading, editing, professional networking, and social activism. I'm also an active member of the Portland Haiku Group, and edited the Portland Haiku Group anthology, New Bridges, dedicated to haiku poet Johnny Baranski. I served as the managing editor of three Haiku Nook anthologies: Yanty’s Butterfly (dedicated to haiku poet Yanty Tjiam), Half A Rainbow (dedicated to haiku poet Rachel Sutcliffe) and Desert Rain (dedicated to haiku poet Martha Magenta and the 600+ million people who don't have access to clean water). I am also the co-author of Echoes: A Collection of Linked-Verse Poetry with Michelle Hyatt and Returning: Tanka Sequences with Michelle Hyatt. I've published 4 collections of haiku, 1 collection of tanka, 1 collection of haibun, and 1 collection of longer poems, The Last Days of Winter. Since that time, I've published haiku, tanka, and haibun in journals such as Frogpond, The Heron's Nest, Chrysanthemum, Atlas Poetica, Ribbons, and Contemporary Haibun Online. I've been writing haiku and related forms since 2006, when I took a haiku class at The Evergreen State College : The Way of Haiku and Haibun taught by Kate Crow. Shape of reptile’s food.Hello! My name is Jacob. The stanzas themselves follow the haiku pattern well. “Lines on Skull” is one of his most famous. Ravi Shankar takes a twist on the haiku by creating longer poems that have stanzas written in haiku. She writes about American themes, using the same imagery ancient Japanese poets did, but with things, American writers are more familiar with. Sonia Sanches is a modern-day Haiku writer. Some of the beauty of his poetry is lost in translation, but here are some examples:įor a past time.” Katsushika Hokusai 9. In addition to writing haiku, he was also a famous Japanese painter. Katsushika HokusaiĪ follower of Basho, Hokusai is another of the Japanese haiku poets who mastered the art form. She lay beside me in the dawn.” Ezra Poun 8. Petals on a wet, black bough.” Ezra Pound ![]() “The apparition of these faces in the crowd These poems do not follow the strict syllables of a haiku, but they have much of the same imagery. Walter Mori (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsĮzra Pound is an American poet who wrote a number of haiku-like poems. He also breaks the rules by not sticking to the five-seven-five pattern of syllables.įour have fallen.” Jack Kerouac 7. Ezra Pound His creative writing shows that the haiku still has an impact on modern literature. In his book Book of Haikus, Kerouac has many original works and a few haikus that paraphrase his prose. To the departing year.” Kobayashi Issa 6. Jack Kerouac The poems do lose some of their meter when translated into English: This poet was famous for his unique take on natural wonders, like a snail climbing a mountain. The works of Issa came on the scene in the late 1700s. The window frame.” Natsume Soseki 5. Kobayashi Issa Like many Japanese poets, he focused a lot of his haiku writing on nature. In addition to his haikus, he wrote novels and fairy tales. Natsume Soseki is one of the more modern Japanese haiku writers. In the cold of night.” Masaoka Shiki 4. Natsume Soseki These haiku poems create imagery with their creative use of the limited number of syllables. Writing in the late nineteenth century, Shiki revived the poetic form and gave modern haiku its style. ![]() Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons ![]()
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