haiku-usa

A blog devoted mainly to haiku and senryu and to thoughts about, and inspired by, haiku and senryu.

Haiku is to poetry as espresso is to coffee.

Saturday, April 30, 2005

the morning paper

turning first to the letters

to see if I'm there

Anonymous Poet said...: Did you write to the editor?

Thanks for stopping by my site and your provocative question re "genius." I have posted a response for you.; 7:35 PM
Bill said...: I often do, usually on the kind of political issues that have no place on this blog. I was most recently published in the New York Times for April 26. And I blush to admit that on that day (I'd been advised the letter was scheduled to appear) the front page had to wait.; 9:04 PM
floots said...: I love your senryu which carry a sense of wry, self-deprecation. (Looking at it again that sounds more like a perversion than a comment on literary style!) Reading your reply to Anonymous Poet, I see that the word "letters" was meant literally: I had also taken it to be an obituary column/mortality reference. Amazing what one find in seventeen syllables!; 1:52 AM
Bill said...: Hi Floots. As I said to AP in a message at his blog, intention is between the poet and the poem; meaning is between the poem and the reader.; 6:31 AM