Shaping Words

Finding Room to Grow In previous posts I have written about a slowly growing awareness among those interested in syllabic, formal, haik...

Eastern Structures – A Review For the past maybe three to five years I have noticed that poets who are interested in a syllabic approac...

Free Verse Mind – Part 6 1. Some time ago I posted a few times on the topic ‘Free Verse Mind’.  I’ve wanted to post further on this...

On Publishing At the store where I work, a spiritual book and tea shop, we host events every Thursday.  A few weeks ago we hosted a poe...

The Kokinshu is the first Imperial collection of waka poetry from Japan.  It was edited about 905 and contains 1111 poems, almost all of the...

Today is set aside to celebrate the Etheree syllabic form.  I have a great fondness for this form: its simplicity, its flexibility, and the ...

Greetings: Today is January 22nd.  I bet you didn't know that this is Syllabic Tanka Day!  Hooray.  It seems fitting that now that I...