reblogged with permission — Petals of Haiku, Tranquility: An Anthology of Haiku, Haiku and Tanka: Lull, Harmony and Power in Japanese Art; Full Moon Confessions – books published by Literary Revelations, officially accepted in the Museum of Contemporary Japanese Poetry, Tanka and Haiku (Japan)

Mr. Takano and Hikari. I’m excited by this news.  My poems are in a couple of these anthologies.  There is a new anthology in the works with haiku for soulmates.  I just submitted 5 haiku for it.  You have until next week to submit!

Book Review — _Emphyrio_, by Jack Vance

Emphyrio book cover by Ned Dameron I had no idea what this book was about when I started reading it, but the first thing I noticed was the distinctive style of the writer. An e-book with a built in dictionary came in handy while reading it, and my vocabulary is improved after reading it. Without…

Book Review: _Poems & Prayers_, by Matthew McConaughey

It’s good for what it is, which is a short, but dense, handbook comprised mostly of rhyming verse and haiku-like proverbs — with notes — that make existential sense. The poems and prayers cross all chronologies and matters of heart, soul, and conscience. Several of them resonate for me as I perceive them as hard-won…