Books Acquired Recently

Pupello, Tony, ed. street beat: Haiku and Senryū from the Pages of “tsuri-dōrō”. New York: tsuri-dōrō Press, 2024. I recently read a review of this anthology and decided to buy it because of my interest in city haiku. Stiazhkina, Olena. Ukraine, War, Love: A Donetsk Diary. Translated by Anne O. Fisher. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UkrainianContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Books Acquired Recently: AAMD Edition

I just returned home from the annual Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) conference in Denver, where I acquired the following three books. Hundley, Jessica. Tarot. Köln; Taschen, 2021. I bought this lovely illustrated volume at the Denver Art Museum’s shop. Part of the conference took place at the museum. Jackson, Maggie. Uncertain: The WisdomContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: AAMD Edition”

Books Acquired Recently

Higginson, William J. The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1996. I recently began reading Higginson’s Haiku World, the companion volume to The Haiku Seasons, and quickly realized that to get the most out of Haiku World I also needed The Haiku Seasons, so I ordered a copy that came earlierContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Writing Activity, September 2024

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, September 2024”