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Haiku 2020

I’m very pleased to announce that Haiku 2020 in now available from Modern Haiku Press for $10 + shipping. The book features 100 notable haiku (by 100 poets) from 2019 that Lee Gurga and I selected together. The introductory essay is by Richard Gilbert, author of The Disjunctive Dragonfly, Poems of Consciousness, and coeditor of numerous books devoted to the life, philosophy and poetry of Kaneko Tohta. The cover photograph is by my wife, Masako, and the two of us designed it together.

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1.30.20 / Heliosparrow Poetry Journal

Heliosparrow is a new online journal edited by Richard Gilbert and Clayton Beach, an extension of their Haiku Sanctuary, that will be featuring not only haiku but also visual media, including paintings, photos, graphics, and haiga. Do check it out and consider submitting work.

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Rattlecast #6 Richard Gilbert”

Between living and dreaming

there is a third thing.

Guess it.

—Antonio Machado (1983)

Poetry as Consciousness: Haiku Forests, Space of Mind, and an Ethics of Freedom by Richard Gilbert (Keibunsha Press, 2018). Order in English.

Also, check out Richard Gilbert’s other conversation with Tim Green from 2015 in Rattle #47

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“Volitional Formations” by Sabine Miller

by Sabine Miller

“Volitional Formations,” mixed flower pulp and dried Peruvian lily stamens on 5″ X 7″ watercolor paper, 2017.

from Poetry as Consciousness: Haiku Forests, Space of Mind, and an Ethics of Freedom by Richard Gilbert (Keibunsha Press, 2018). Order in English.

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“Amnion” by Sabine Miller

by Sabine Miller

“Amnion,” mixed flower pulp and water on 9″ x 12″ watercolor paper, 2018.

from Poetry as Consciousness: Haiku Forests, Space of Mind, and an Ethics of Freedom by Richard Gilbert (Keibunsha Press, 2018). Order in English.

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