Graceguts News

1 October 2025

The largest addition to Graceguts in September of 2025 has been my “Tanka Take Home” interview from the Triveni Haikai India website, which appeared in four parts, weekly, in August of 2025. These parts also included the reprinting of 13 tanka and my “Hand in Hand” tanka prose piece written about September 11. Of more than a thousand blog post responses, I also present 18 selected examples. You can read all the preceding content at “‘Tanka Take Home’ Featured Poet” on the Interviews page. A related posting, on the Commentary page, is “A Response to ‘Hand in Hand’” by Dipankar. In August of 2025 I also judged the “2025 Triveni Haiku Awards,” newly added to the Contests page, where you can read my selections and commentary, written with my cojudge, Ashish Narain. On 14 September, I was also a featured presenter at the 2025 Triveni Utsav haiku festival on Zoom, where I presented my “Finding the Sky” essay, one of many recent and upcoming presentations and readings on my Appearances page.

Due to my heavy involvement with the September 2025 Haiku North America conference in San Francisco, including editing and publishing the conference anthology, Nowhere Else (more about this soon), and giving a presentation on how still-life paintings relate to haiku, other recent additions to Graceguts have been minimal. Nevertheless, they include the following:

• I was featured poet in the September/October 2025 issue of Tsuri-dōrō. On the “My Poems in Tsuri-dōrō” page, available through Haiku and Senryu, look for the five featured poems plus two additional haiku.

• On the “My Poems in The Heron’s Nest” page, also available through Haiku and Senryu, look for the following poem, including a photo-haiga:

letters in the attic—

the rubber band

breaks at my touch

I also added the same photo-haiga to my “Selected Haiga and Photo-Haiga” page, available through my Haiga page.

• On the Blurbs page, I added my praise for Michael G. Hickey’s How to Talk to Girls, from Painted Rock Press in 2020.

• Finally, on the Poems About Haiku page, check out “#10639” by Craig Czury.

October looks to be a bit more active with Graceguts additions, though I’ll still be catching up after Haiku North America and working on this year’s Seabeck Haiku Getaway, to be held 23–26 October 2025. But great things are coming!