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In March of 2026, I added the following content to Graceguts, my ongoing little labour of literary love. Activity has been a bit more relaxed than in recent months, but that’s okay with me.
New to the Essays page is “Summer Musing: The First Haibun in English,” just published in Haiku Canada Review. This essay explores what I believe to be the very first haibun in English, published by Carolyn Kizer in 1962.
New on my Déjà-ku Diary blog is “Train Window Reflections,” featuring haiku by various poets about seeing your own reflection out of a train or bus window when it suddenly becomes dark outside. I’ve also added a postscript featuring two additional poems.
On the Contests page, look for my selections and commentary in the “2025 British Haiku Society Tanka Awards,” which were announced in March 2026.
Furthering various essays, I’ve added new postscripts as follows:
“Postscript 4” on my “Watch Your Its” essay.
“One More Postscript” on “Going Nowhere: Learning Haiku from Pico Iyer” (quoting from Iyer’s essay in the Ma book published by Tuttle in 2025, in which I also have an essay).
Second postscript added to “Dying to Visit a Graveyard” on my Déjà-ku Diary blog, quoting a “dash” haiku of my own that fits this blog entry’s theme:
how fast it is
the en dash
between gravestone dates
On the Poems by Others page, look for “This Ink Bottle” by Robert Sund (from Taos Mountain) just added to the “Ink Bottle Poems” page.
Poems About Haiku now features the following additions:
Sam Hamill’s “Wanting one good organic line” untitled poem
Robert Sund’s “When the Smallest Thing Is Loved” and “Clouds”
Hannah Joy Elliott’s “My Mom Writes Haiku” (in a lighter vein?)
Cor van den Heuvel’s “long summer day / opening the letter slowly / hoping for some haiku” (highlighted at the top of the landing page)
On Haiku and Senryu, look for this new poem on “From Red Moon Anthologies”:
testing positive—
I climb Kilimanjaro
on a map
On “My Poems in The Heron’s Nest,” available through Haiku and Senryu, check out this new addition:
start of summer—
a corner kick flies
from shadow to light
Also on Haiku and Senryu, in “My Poems in Tsuri-dōrō,” please find the following two new poems, the first of which I originally wrote more than 35 years previously (used for my 1991 Christmas card):
winter stillness . . .
a strand of tinsel
in the tilted pine
loneliness—
snow on the log boom
adrift in the river
Add on the Tanka page, in “My Tanka in Laurels,” please find the following (it’s always my pleasure to do the layout and design for each issue of this twice-yearly online tanka journal):
with the walking stick
you gave me before you left
I write a love poem
on the still water
of a lonely mountain lake
A few minor miscellaneous additions:
On my “Mercy Street” haibun, I’ve added a link to the WOMAD wiki as well as Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street” video
On the “First Frost” digression, I’ve added the cover image of issue #11, just published (I’ve coedited this haiku journal since 2021)
On the “Venues, Clients, and Partners” page, I’ve added Woodinville Library and Third Place Books, Seward Park
Various updates to my “Appearances” with new event listings
Meanwhile, on my Rengay website, in the “Learning Rengay” section, I’ve added “Rengay on Haikupedia,” featuring a rengay overview I first prepared for the Haikupedia website in 2020.
On the “Six-Person Rengay” page, look for “Boulevard Park” (about Bellingham, Washington) recently published in Haiku Canada Review.
On the “Solo Rengay” page, please read “Mark My Words,” a rengay about punctuation marks, just published in Open Book, the 2026 Western Washington Poets Network anthology (I run the WWPN website).
More to discover next month! You never know what’s in store.
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