With The Heron's Nest Editor Fay Aoyagi and Haijin Chad Lee Robinson Kitagawa Utamaro, circa 1790s | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Early on in my haiku and haibun journey, editors rejected my haibun and several advised me to read haiku, saying that I'd not be able to write a good … Continue reading How to Read Haiku
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A Monk’s Journey with Basho
courtesan and monk, we sleep under one roof together, moon in a field of clover ~ Basho "A Monk's Journey" is haibun with a mix of my prose intertwined with translations of Basho's haiku. It was first published in the journal Simply Haiku. I present it to show how writers can work in conversation, so … Continue reading A Monk’s Journey with Basho
Ray Rasmussen: All Things Haibun Blog 