Author Archives: danielshankcruz

Writing Activity, March 2026

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, March 2026”

Writing Activity, February 2026

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, February 2026”

Writing Activity, January 2026

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, January 2026”

Writing Activity, December 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, December 2025”

Writing Activity, November 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, November 2025”

Writing Activity, October 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, October 2025”

Writing Activity, September 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, September 2025”

Books Acquired Recently: Haiku North America Edition

I just got back from attending my first Haiku North America conference! It was a great time meeting other haiku writers and celebrating the genre together. There was a sizeable bookfair at which I acquired the following ten volumes: Antolin, Susan, Garry Gay, and Carolyn Hall, eds. The San Francisco Haiku Anthology, Volume Two. WalnutContinue reading “Books Acquired Recently: Haiku North America Edition”

Writing Activity, August 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, August 2025”

Books Acquired Recently

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”