From Haiku in English
In 2013, I had six poems published
in Haiku in English: The First Hundred
Years, edited by Jim Kacian, Philip Rowland, and Allan Burns, with an
introduction by Billy Collins (New York: Norton). The book traces the history
of haiku written in English, starting with Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the
Metro,” and stretching into the 21st century. It was also my pleasure to be
part of the inaugural reading from the anthology aboard the Queen Mary ocean
liner in Long Beach, California, which was the site of the 2013 Haiku North
America conference. Here are my six poems. + after the quake the weathervane pointing to earth morning chill . . . the bag of marbles shifts on the shelf paper route knocking a row of icicles from the eave pulsing in the wiper’s blade the bee’s abdomen crackling beach fire— we hum in place of words we can’t recall meteor shower . . . a gentle wave wets our sandals + |