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1 July 2024
I invite you to explore the following new content added to Graceguts in the month of June 2024:
Four new postscripts added to essays:
On “The Territory of Haiku,” read a postscript about “core” by John Stevenson, and another one about “cows” by Rick Tarquinio (my commentary on “core” also postscripts “A Sampling of Cultural Haiku”).
See “Haiku Ring You,” appended to “Ringing the Bell,” about an Annie Dillard quotation.
Learn about the relative “speed” of Japanese versus English in a new postscript added to my “Heft of Haiku” essay.
I’ve made numerous updates to my Appearances page, including the following:
14 June 2024: Added to the 2024–2026 Public Art Roster for the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture.
18 June 2024: Providing my “Haiku Targets” fundraiser workshop for One Art.
October 3–5, 2024: Serving as the Robert Sund Memorial Poet for the 2024 Skagit River Poetry Festival in La Conner, Washington.
On the Haiku Workshops page, available through Workshops, look for new attendee comments about my “Haiku Targets” workshop for One Art (apparently, “Michael is a fantastic teacher”).
New to my Haibun page is “Dear Oliver,” published in Kokako #3 in 2020.
Check out three new pleasing additions to the Poems About Haiku page: Kimberly Blaeser’s “Haiku Journey” and Rob Taylor’s “Fourteen Weeks” and “Haiku 1–4.”
Speaking of Rob Taylor, the Further Reading page has a new link to his fresh and informative essay, “Some Notes on Writing Haiku.”
The Reports page now includes my selections and commentary for the 2024 ukiaHaiku Festival Contest Winners.
On the Photographs page, I’ve added links to four albums (more than a thousand photos) from my daughter’s senior class trip to the Olympic Peninsula, for which I served as a parent chaperone (and official photographer).
More additions will be coming soon!
