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  • The poems that Joyce specifically wrote for this series of paintings are in the form of what is called 'haiga'.

    Spotlight On Alexandra Grants's Bodies On View At Honor Fraser, Los Angeles Melinda Brocka 2010

  • The poems that Joyce specifically wrote for this series of paintings are in the form of what is called 'haiga'.

    Spotlight On Alexandra Grants's Bodies On View At Honor Fraser, Los Angeles Melinda Brocka 2010

  • The poems that Joyce specifically wrote for this series of paintings are in the form of what is called 'haiga'.

    Spotlight On Alexandra Grants's Bodies On View At Honor Fraser, Los Angeles The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The poems that Joyce specifically wrote for this series of paintings are in the form of what is called 'haiga'.

    Spotlight On Alexandra Grants's Bodies On View At Honor Fraser, Los Angeles The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Kinsaku used fifteen different haiga, or pen names, before he settled simply on Basho, which was the name of a banana plant.

    The Tyranny of E-mail John Freeman 2009

  • More celebratory than most are Gregory K. from GottaBook who has an original poem-of-the-day subscription service, Elaine at Wild Rose Reader who has an awesome contest going on, Cloudscome who is posting a haiga haiku and image every day at A Wrung Sponge and the Whidbey Writers Workshop whose Students' Choice contest this month is for short poetry, and includes a cash prize.

    The WritingYA Weblog: Poets, Audience and ...Denim. tanita davis 2008

  • More celebratory than most are Gregory K. from GottaBook who has an original poem-of-the-day subscription service, Elaine at Wild Rose Reader who has an awesome contest going on, Cloudscome who is posting a haiga haiku and image every day at A Wrung Sponge and the Whidbey Writers Workshop whose Students' Choice contest this month is for short poetry, and includes a cash prize.

    Archive 2008-04-01 a. fortis 2008

  • I'll be publishing pics here as well, as I experiment with haiga, a haikai form I'm not entirely comfortable with yet.

    by An Xiao 2006

  • As an aside, I have purchased rechargeable batteries for my digicam, which means more haiga and photos on this blog.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

  • I've decided that the practice of haiga is an excellent way to maintain and develop my composition, and, like short verse, the confines of a 2.2 megapixel digicam with no zoom will certainly challenge my abilities.

    Archive 2005-12-01 2005

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