Toews, Miriam. A Truce That is Not Peace. New York: Bloomsbury, 2025. Miriam Toews’s new memoir was just released in the U.S., and I ordered it immediately. Yasuda, Kenneth. A Pepper-Pod: Classic Japanese Poems Together with Original Haiku. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. This book is a classic of early English-language haiku–the section ofContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently”
Monthly Archives: August 2025
Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition
The Haiku Society of America Twentieth Anniversary Book Committee. A Haiku Path: The Haiku Society of America 1968-1988. New York: Haiku Society of America, 1994. I’ve heard about this anthology before and have been wanting to read it because of my interest in the history of haiku. I recently found a used copy online. Hoffmann,Continue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku Edition”
Writing Activity, July 2025
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, July 2025”
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