12 Haiku Resolutions for the New Year

Note: This essay was originally intended to run in the January issue of the Haiku Society of America newsletter. However, it got preempted by an obituary for an HSA member. Given that this piece won’t be timely in February, I figured I might as well share it here, so it doesn’t just linger on myContinue reading “12 Haiku Resolutions for the New Year”

Goodbye, 2015

Greetings from rural Illinois! I’m out here enjoying winter break, organizing poetry files, and writing haibun. Next week, I’ll be back to the warm weather, kicking off 2016 with a road trip through Mexico. I’ve been too busy to blog this semester. I’ve even neglected my poor email newsletter. But I thought I’d pop inContinue reading “Goodbye, 2015”

Ain’t No Party Like a Poetry Party

Okay, my New Year’s plans are a little livelier than that. But if you’re poetry-minded  and want to spend New Year’s Eve being creative, you are invited to join the New Year’s Poetry Party. New Year’s Poetry Party What: A night to write the last poems of 2014 and start the New Year on aContinue reading “Ain’t No Party Like a Poetry Party”