dawn.vogel | November 6, 2026
This week’s prompt from the Big Pink Book went in an odd direction! I’d called this one “space” on Monday, because of the top left sticker, and when I sat down to work on this page, I was also thinking about a prompt of “trickster.” My thought was to find a trickster goddess who might […]
dawn.vogel | 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 […]
dawn.vogel | 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 […]
dawn.vogel | 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 […]
