Reading Rengay Dear Readers, in the last column we met Garry Gay who explained how he invented the rengay in 1992, its structure and constituents. Today I share some sample rengay from the HSA website featuring the Haiku Society […]
GARRY GAY on Rengay Writing Dear Readers, in #22, we met ai li, creator of Cherita, Gembun and Dua, three unique storytelling short form genres. Now I bring you another great poet who has created RENGAY—a collaborative 6-verse poetry form. Garry […]
CHERITA, GEMBUN & DUA- The Stories They Tell Dear Readers, this week I bring you ai li, creator of Cherita, Gembun and Dua, three unique storytelling short-form genres. She is also the editor of the cherita, founding editor and publisher […]
Stories Haibun Tell Dear Readers, hope you enjoyed reading the introduction & Roberta Beary’s essay about haibun in the last column. Today, we bring you Rich Youmans, a celebrated American editor, writer, and poet. From 2018 to 2019 he served on […]
Friends, in Haiku Blossoms, we have discussed haiku, senryu, haiga, & tanka. We have brought you essays by luminaries of haikai literature and also covered some concepts and guidelines for penning Japanese short forms of poetry. In this 20th piece we […]
THE ART OF TANKA Dear friends, welcome to our 19th piece in Haiku Blossoms! Now that we have discussed the form of tanka in the last two columns, I share tanka poems from poets based all over the world. Mostly culled […]
ABOUT TANKA Dear friends, welcome to our 18th piece in Haiku Blossoms! The response to the previous column on Tanka was very heartening and I am glad readers found it useful. For your reading pleasure and understanding of this beautiful form […]
Dear Readers, we have covered haiku, senryu, and haiga in the earlier columns, now let us discuss another short form of Japanese poetry which I love—Tanka (five-line verses) that originated over 1200 years ago. It gives us 2 extra lines […]
The Magic of Haiga Click to read Haiku Blossom
MODERN SENRYU Dear Readers, last week we covered Senryu and how it differed from haiku. I quoted Alan Pizzarelli’s definition of senryu—“Senryu is a short poetic genre which focuses on people. Men, women, husbands, wives, children and relatives. It portrays […]
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