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)

• Helluva Haiku Comics (4 March 2025)

• Miniature Poems (22 February 2025)

• Buick Estate Wagon (21 February 2025)

• Text Chat with a Scammer (9 February 2025)

• Haiku T-Shirts (31 January 2025)

• Empress of England (24 January 2025)

• Shamisen Recordings (21 January 2025)

• Pulse Haiku 2024 (6 January 2025)

• Haiku Poet Word Search (29 December 2024)

• Sarah’s High School Graduation Speech (24 September 2024)

• Seattle Competitive Karuta Club (3 September 2024)

• Favourite Books (11 February 2024)

• Favourite Movies (11 February 2024)

• Moon Viewing (31 July 2023)

• 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 and Tanka

• American Haiku Archives (1996)

• Bumbershoot (2005)

• Celebrating Earth Day (2017)

• Cherry Blossom Postage Stamp (2012)

• Cherry Petal Mats (2014)

• Early Computer-Generated Haiku (1987)

• First Frost (2021 and ongoing)

• First Haiku Slam at the National Poetry Slam (1993)

• 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 Knickknacks

• Haiku Master (2006)

• Haiku, Maui

• Haiku North America (1991 and ongoing)

• Haiku on Buses (2007)

• Haiku on Buses (2014)

• Haiku on Sticks (2010 and ongoing)

• A Haiku Path (1994)

• Haiku Poet Word Search (2024)

• Haiku T-Shirts (2010)

• Helluva Haiku Comics (2016)

• Holiday Haiku (2007)

• Itoen Judge’s Award (2004)

• Katikati Haiku Pathway (2000)

• Miniature Poems (2014)

• Moonshine Series (2014)

• Moon Viewing (2004 and ongoing)

• My Haiku Notebooks (1985 and ongoing)

• NaHaiWriMo (2010 and ongoing)

• Opening the Haiku Window (1988)

• Per Diem Haiku (2012)

• Pulse Haiku 2024

• 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)

• Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Translations (2011)

• Washington State Ferries Haiku Contest (2020)

• Woodnotes (1989–1997)

• Words in Bloom (Chicago Botanic Garden, 2021)