It's the odd experience successfully translated into language that often makes a good American Sentence. A long walk...
Hillman City Haibun 5 (White Cat Privilege)
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After the Japanese 29-32
Today, the next segment of the 100 poems written using each poem in the classic Japanese poetry anthology (Ogura...
José Kozer Interview
This past January 18 and 19 (2015) I had the great pleasure of going to Hallendale Beach, Florida, and having access...
Hillman City Haibun 4 (Sleep, Crackers)
It's a toss-up for the best American Sentence this week. Yesterday's pertains to a new health condition, or at least a...
After The Japanese 25-28
In this stretch of the project of writing inspired by the classic Japanese poetry anthology, I start in memory and...
Four Hoarse Men Ride Again
A couple of years ago I became part of a group of poets that sought to explore poetry from the angle of pure sound in...
Hillman City Haibun 3 (Seattle Smells)
Just back from Miami where I had the good fortune to have access to the great Cuban poet José Kozer and do an...
After the Japanese 21-24
It's a very special time in Cascadia, mid-winter (almost typed "mind) with the signs of spring beginning to push up...
Slaughter Birds
I am a big city guy. Keep in mind there are almost as many people in my home town (metro area) of Chicago 9.52M as...
Hillman City Haibun 2 (Pink Floyd)
Pink Floyd, Soldier Field, June 19, 1977, Chicago, IL. One estimate suggests the crowd was 95,000 people. This is...
After The Japanese 17-20
This latest installment of After The Japanese, poems written after the classic Japanese poetry anthology, is below....
Call for Beat Papers
The next EBSN (European Beat Studies Network) Conference is in Brussels in October. I attended a conference at the...