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National Poetry Month roundup, or, "and that was the month that was"
I think the title says it all - with today being the final day of National Poetry Month as well as World Tai Chi and Qigong Day (an important day for Morris, my sweetheart, who teaches a myriad of tai chi and qigong classes, and who is therefore running not just one, but TWO World Tai Chi & Qigong Day events which will take most of our day), I am ( Read more... ) -
The elements of a sijo
As mentioned in yesterday's post, the sijo is a three-line poem. Except, of course, when it's not, since the lines tend to be long, and are therefore often rendered in six lines when written in English. (As an aside, sijo that are rendered in translation often do not meet most of the syllabic requirements - they met them in Korean, and now they are ( Read more... ) -
Writing report
It is not all warm weather and Wee Free Men and gnomish hijinks here in the desert. I've also been getting wee bits of writing done. For instance, yesterday, I wrote a sijo (a la Linda Sue Park). And the day before, I finished a first draft of one of my Jane poems - a sonnet in praise of Dr. Samuel Johnson, in which I managed to use the word " ( Read more... )
