Digressions
Who doesn’t enjoy a good digression now and then? As Laurence Sterne once said, “Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.” Or, as Ralph Caplan put it, “Nothing is more to the point than a good digression.” And bless Ray Bradbury, who said “Digression is the soul of wit,” but we’ll see about that. What follows are various random oddities and other miscellaneous digressions, some serious, some for fun, some historical (at least for me), and some ongoing, arranged into categories. They don’t seem to fit anywhere else. So they fit here. + + +
Recent Additions (with dates added)
Cascade (30 May 2023)
Animated by Hope [about my favourite word] (21 May 2023)
Two Autumns Press (12 April 2023)
Early Computer-Generated Haiku (21 February 2023)
Inside the Oyster Shells (31 January 2023)
Hydrogen Jukebox (21 January 2023)
Haiku City Reading Series (14 December 2022)
My Haiku Notebooks (31 August 2022)
Visual plus Poetry plus Zines (29 August 2022)
Childhood Journaling (5 July 2022)
Rhopalic Sentences (12 June 2022)
Washington State Ferries Haiku Contest (3 June 2022)
Bumbershoot (28 May 2022)
First Frost (19 April 2022)
Two Squirrels (7 February 2022)
Haiku, Maui (24 January 2022)
Haiku and Tanka
American Haiku Archives (1996)
Bumbershoot (2005)
Celebrating Earth Day (2017)
Cherry Blossom Postage Stamp (2012)
Cherry Petal Mats (2014)
First Frost (2021 and ongoing)
Folklife Haiku Performance (2008)
Haiku Bookmark (2004)
Haiku Broadside (2018)
Haiku Christmas Cards (1990–1997, 2012)
Haiku City Reading Series (1995–2000)
Haiku in High Places (1998 and 2001)
Haiku Invitational (2006 and ongoing)
Haiku Master (2006)
Haiku North America (1991 and ongoing)
Haiku on Buses (2007)
Haiku on Buses (2014)
Haiku on Sticks (2010 and ongoing)
A Haiku Path (1994)
Holiday Haiku (2007)
Itoen Judge’s Award (2004)
Katikati Haiku Pathway (2000)
Moonshine Series (2014)
My Haiku Notebooks (1985 and ongoing)
NaHaiWriMo (2010 and ongoing)
Opening the Haiku Window (1988)
Per Diem Haiku (2012)
Seabeck Haiku Getaway (2008 and ongoing)
The Simpsons Do Haiku (2011) +
The Simpsons Do NaHaiWriMo (2012)
Street-Guided Meditation (2016; short film with my haiku)
Tanka Society of America (2000)
Tokyo Traffic Culture Exhibition (2018 to 2021)
Two Squirrels (1990)
Typos Happen! (1993 and ongoing, alas)
Vancouver Haiku Stone (2006–2008)
Woodnotes (1989–1997)
Words in Bloom (Chicago Botanic Garden, 2021)
Other Poetry
Burning Word (2008)
Cascade (2011)
Ekphrastic Assimilations (2016)
Hydrogen Jukebox (2020, 2021)
Inside the Oyster Shells (2021; E. E. Cummings/handmade book)
Magazine Cover (2016)
Monsieur Joliat (1972)
My First Poetry Readings (1990)
Ode to Physics (1979)
Poetry Crossword Puzzle (2014)
Poetry Kit (2018)
Poets Against the War (2003)
Poet’s Market Definitions (2004)
Poets Wanted (2013–2017)
Redmond Association of Spokenword (2008 and ongoing)
Redmond Poet Laureate (2013–2015)
SoulFood Poetry Night (2006 and ongoing)
Two Autumns Press (1990–2000)
Venues, Clients, and Partners (ongoing)
Visual plus Poetry plus Zines (2020, 2022)
Waverley Writers (2007)
What’s In a Name? Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Poetry (2014)
Language
Pilgrimage to Powell’s Books (1984)
Typos Happen! (1993 and ongoing, alas)
Personal and Family
Birthday Newspapers (2003 and ongoing)
Childhood Journaling (1970s)
50 Questions (2010)
For the Love of Skiing (1977 and ongoing)
My Favourite Numbers (1972)
My Son’s Interview (2016)
Name Badges (2010 and ongoing)
Racquetball (1976)
Robotics (2021)
Speed Stick Deodorant (tracked since 1997)
Thomas on Violin (2020)
Travel (countries visited)
25 Random Things About Me (2009)
All the Rest
Animated by Hope [about my favourite word] (ongoing)
Artists Personal Exchange (2018 and ongoing)
Digressions (2010 and ongoing)
Famous People I’ve Met (ongoing)
Getting It Out of My System (2020)
Obscure Musical Passions (2011)