poetry gaming
May 15, 2018
We don’t often have an opportunity to post from the intersection of Poetry and Gaming, but if Small Island Games has anything to do with it, Haiku Adventure will be coming your way soon.
Haiku Adventure is a magical realist adventure game which allows players to inhabit intricately composed landscapes that celebrate Japanese woodblock traditions, and explore the transformative tricks of perception contained within the formal constraints of haiku poetry. Exploring an immersive world and discovering lines of poetry will allow players to compose three line haiku which re-imagine and transform the world around them.
To learn more, visit the website and read a review on PC Gamer.
haiku and more
April 6, 2018
You are invited to learn about, honor, and celebrate Japanese culture at the Ferndale Cherry Blossom Festival 2018 on Saturday, April 14. Festivities begin at 9:00am with traditional poetry, music, and song on Hanadori Trail in Pioneer Park. Members of the Bellingham Haiku Writing Group will be wandering poets. Festivities continue until 3:00pm with taiko drummers, dancers, demonstrations, and activities for all ages, plus food, door prizes, raffle items, and vendors.
it’s back!
February 1, 2018
Yes, it’s February, and that means it’s National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo). Here’s the scoop from Michael Dylan Welch:
The idea is to write at least one haiku a day for the entire month of February — the shortest month for the shortest genre of poetry. Most of the action takes place on Facebook and on Twitter (#nahaiwrimo). The NaHaiWriMo Facebook page provides daily writing prompts (find them in the Notes tab), which you are free to follow or not. You are encouraged to post your haiku to the main NaHaiWriMo page on Facebook — and share them on your own timeline, on Twitter, and on your blog or website. And please feel free to encourage others to try National Haiku Writing Month too (hey, NaHaiWriMo is more fun with friends). And no, haiku don’t have to be 5-7-5. Write on!
next time you’re in Santa Fe
October 19, 2017
…be sure to visit the brand new Haiku Pathway at Santa Fe Community College. The stoneware haiku were created and installed by Christy Hengst with haiku curated by Miriam Sagan. Funding was provided by the Witter-Bynner Foundation, the SFCC Foundation, New Mexico Literary Arts, Art on Campus, and the SFCC English Department.
Thanks to Michael Dylan Welch for the heads up.
catching up with haiku
July 7, 2017
A couple of items have been lingering in the haiku file, with thanks to Michael Dylan Welch, who keeps us in the loop.
The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District is a non-profit 501(c)(6) that works to enhance Washington, DC’s Central Business District from the White House to Dupont Circle and 16th Street NW to New Hampshire Avenue NW. Among their many initiatives is the now-annual spring-themed Golden Haiku Contest. In March 2017, more than a hundred haiku signs were installed in downtown Washington flower beds. You can see the words on the Golden Haiku Winners page.
In another bit of MDW-supplied haiku news, this one from Ottsville, Pennsylvania, Bill Waters hung two dozen of his small haiku signs (mobiles? mixed-media sculptures?) that he calls “Haiku in the Wild” as part of the Aurora Alpaca and Llama Farm annual Llamapaloosa. Photos here.
As long as we’re on the subject, you may want to note for your calendar that Haiku North America 2017 takes place in Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 13–17, 2017, and the tenth-anniversary Haiku Northwest Seabeck Haiku Getaway will be held October 26–29, 2017, at the Seabeck Conference Center (2017 isn’t posted yet, but here’s a link to the 2016 conference page). ‘Sense of taste’ is this year’s theme.
on poetry
June 15, 2017
words
are a waste of time…
poppies
Kobayashi Issa
(June 15, 1763 – January 5, 1828)
send some peace
January 12, 2017
February, which is National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo) is also Peace Poetry Postcard Month. Sign up, write a peace poem each day and mail one a day to a name on your pre-assigned list. Prompts will be posted on Facebook if you need a jump start.
To sign up
- Send an email to worldpeacepoets [at] gmail.com
- Use the subject line Peace Postcards
- In the body of the e-mail include your name, mailing address, city, state, country and Zip or postal code
Write poems. EASY.
