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!