Monthly Archives: June 2024

Berggrun, Chase. Somewhere a Seagull. N.p.: After Hours Editions, 2023. I love Berggrun’s full-length poetry collection R E D, so when I heard about this limited-edition chapbook last week I bought it immediately. My copy is numbered 55/100. Cairns, Robyn, and Marianne Paul. Damselflies. Canada: Paper Heron Press, 2023. This is a lovely hand-sewn chapbookContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Chapbook Edition”

Today is “Strand Day” to celebrate the Strand‘s ninety-seventh anniversary, so everything in the store is 25% off and you get a free tote bag if you spend more than $50.00. I hadn’t been there in while, but this deal was too good to pass up, so I went this morning and bought a fewContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Strand Edition”

After I finished my MFA a year ago, my book buying dropped off pretty significantly (partly because I was buying fountain pens instead), but it has really picked up again over the past few months. I already know that I am going to surpass my book-buying budget for June even though the month is onlyContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Higginson, William J., and Penny Harter. The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Teach, and Appreciate Haiku. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Kodansha USA, 2013. I’ve had this classic on my to-buy list for a while, and finally decided to acquire it. Pearce, Jacqueline, ed. Last Train Home: An Anthology of Contemporary Haiku, Tanka, and Rengay.Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”

Since January 2021, I’ve been keeping a list of my writing activity for each month (here’s last month’s). I do so partly as a form of encouragement for myself to show that I am still able to do some writing despite the energy-sucking terrors of our times, and partly as an archive that I canContinue reading “Writing Activity, May 2024”