November 2024 – Daniel Shank Cruz

Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition

Barlow, John, and Martin Lucas, eds. The New Haiku. Liverpool: Snapshot Press, 2002. This germinal anthology was just reprinted, and I ordered a copy as soon as I heard they were available. Durand, Marcella, and Jennifer Firestone, eds. Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024. This is aContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Poetry Edition”

Books Acquired Recently

I’ve been doing a bunch of retail therapy book buying as the result of the U.S.’s current political situation. This is a list of what’s come in over the past few days. Agyei-Baah, Adjei. Afriku: Haiku & Senryu from Ghana. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2016. I’m always interested in reading work by other haikuContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”

Writing Activity, October 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, October 2024”