Innumerable Autumns
The classical Japanese season words have hundreds of years of cultural buy-in from Japanese haijin. Those of us who study saijiki know that each season has its own word associations that are deep and subtle. The season words (kigo) not only place us in the season as a whole, but also indicate where in the…
What Groundhog Day Can Teach Us About the Seasons
Now that I’m using a slightly more spacious template for my personal phenology project, I find myself occasionally noticing things beyond my immediate surroundings. For example, last week I was making some notes before work. My brain wasn’t at its sharpest, but I had a thought about Groundhog Day that had never quite occurred to…
The Best of It: Start of the Year Edition
1. Closing 2025 with the Stew Year’s Eve dinner and a party hosted by two of my favorite people. 2. 12th Night in Soulard (always) 3. The engagement party my neighbors hosted for us. 4. Seeing Nate Bargatze perform downtown. 5. Getting to serve as the Poetry Pea YouTube editor for January.
Personal Phenology
At the start of 2025, I had a slightly-used date book from the Field Notes Index quarterly edition (now sold out). I prefer a much larger notebook for keeping track of my schedule, so while I’d made a few halfhearted attempts at using it, I couldn’t get traction. Then I got inspired to use that…
Review: Psalms from the Badlands by Honsho McCreesh
Back in March, Hosho McCreesh sent me a copy of his book Psalms from the Badlands for potential review in Frogpond. Because these short-form poems are inspired by haiku rather than haiku in and of themselves, the editorial team decided not to review the book. We have a set policy of only reviewing work within…
Haiku Girl Summer is taking submissions!
Haiku Girl Summer is officially open for submissions! The window is a little shorter this year; submissions are now only open until August 15th. However, that’s still 3 solid months to get work in, and you can submit up to 3 times during the cycle. Please submit 3-5 haiku or senryu using the form here:…
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