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Poetry Form: Haiku Sonnet

| April 22, 2024

I’ve been back in the swing of working on some form poetry, so I’ve got some new-to-me forms to talk about! The haiku sonnet is a combination of the haiku (or senryu) form and the sonnet form. It also has aspect of the tanka form, which I talked about recently. Simply put, it’s four related […]

Poetry Form: Tanka

| April 1, 2024

I’ve been back in the swing of working on some form poetry, so I’ve got some new-to-me forms to talk about! This week’s form is the tanka, which is a variation on a haiku that is five lines instead of three and 31 syllables instead of 17. In general, it still follows the structure of […]

Japanese Legends in Old Legends and New Fables

| May 24, 2022

Among the many legends and fables my pieces in Old Legends and New Fables touch upon, I have one small piece related to Japanese legends. “The View from Mount Fuji” is about a meteor or comet, with a brief mention of the oni. And while that’s a very broad group of legendary creatures, they were an […]