{"id":10123,"date":"2008-10-09T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T05:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/?p=10123"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:18","slug":"happy-60th-birthday-to-john-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/10\/09\/happy-60th-birthday-to-john-stevenson\/","title":{"rendered":"happy 60th birthday to John Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a> John Stevenson turns 60 <\/em><\/strong>today, October 9, 2008.\u00a0 You may recall that we made a very big deal over Yu Chang’s 70th birthday<\/a> back in August.\u00a0 However, living to sixty isn’t all that impressive in 21st Century America.\u00a0 It’s not John Stevenson’s age we’re impressed with, but the way he’s lived his six decades and enhanced our lives.\u00a0 We celebrate sixty years well-lived and anticipate and wish him many more — filled with much accomplishment, joy, and friendship.<\/p>\n

John Stevenson<\/a> made his first appearance at f\/k\/a<\/em> in March 2005.\u00a0 If necessary, you can learn a bit<\/em> of the record of this much-acclaimed haiku poet and editor at that first post<\/a>, and here<\/a>.\u00a0 Suffice to say, if the haikai community gave out Lifetime Achievement Awards he’d already have one on his shelf.<\/p>\n

summit view
\nmy friend
\nexamines his shoes<\/p>\n

… by Hilary Tann<\/a> – The Heron’s Nest<\/em> IV #1<\/p>\n

John’s love for the art and craft of haiku (and related literary forms, like renku) has enthused others and created deep bonds of friendship and admiration.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s fully present in all he does — as poet, actor, kayaker, parent, friend, movie-goer, dinner companion, and much more (including, over the past couple of years, bocce player). \u00a0 It’s his being fully there that makes John’s friends want to be at his side.<\/p>\n

I’ve already said more than I intended.\u00a0 The poems in this post were chosen by a few of John’s close haiku friends because they spoke to the poet of John and his spirit.\u00a0 Click to enlarge the sparkling photographs, which were taken by his inveterate kayaking companion, Yu Chang (who has a lot of pictures of John’s back).\u00a0 Speaking for many others, Yu says:<\/p>\n

John is not only a very good friend,
\nbut also a source of my inspiration. <\/em><\/p>\n

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autumn colors
\nwe paddle closer
\nto the mountain<\/p>\n

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another spring
\nthe nameless shoot
\nstill nameless<\/p>\n

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star gazing
\nhe pulls another chair
\non the floating dock<\/p>\n

… by Yu Chang<\/a> \"\"<\/p>\n

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autumn night
\nin the white beard
\n60 birthdays<\/p>\n

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autumn settles
\ndark frosting
\non a white beard<\/p>\n

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autumn evening
\nin the white of his beard
\nanother birthday<\/p>\n

. . . . by Roberta Beary<\/a><\/p>\n

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staring down
\ninto stamens
\nof a water lily<\/p>\n

ahead
\none paddle
\nabove the reeds<\/p>\n

……. by Hilary Tann<\/a>, who says:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a> John —\u00a0 thinking of our Upstate Dim Sum camaraderie<\/a> at Tai Pan
\nor renku at Onawa … Happy Day! Hilary <\/em><\/p>\n

a kayak
\non the roof rack–
\nlong way home<\/p>\n

…. by Peggy Willis Lyles<\/a><\/p>\n

even the mime
\nsings along –
\nthe glow of sixty candles<\/p>\n

cake crumbs
\non index cards —
\nthe editor’s chair<\/p>\n

.. by dagosan<\/em><\/p>\n

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winding road \u2013
\nunder the influence
\nof a strawberry moon<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026 by David Giacalone – The Heron\u2019s Nest<\/a><\/em> <\/a>VII: 4<\/span><\/p>\n


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autumn colors-
\nhis train
\non time<\/p>\n

… by Tom Clausen<\/a><\/p>\n

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Happy 60th Birthday, John! \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

—\u00a0 find links to hundreds of his poems here<\/a> – –<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Stevenson turns 60 today, October 9, 2008.\u00a0 You may recall that we made a very big deal over Yu Chang’s 70th birthday back in August.\u00a0 However, living to sixty isn’t all that impressive in 21st Century America.\u00a0 It’s not John Stevenson’s age we’re impressed with, but the way he’s lived his six decades and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1852,555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haijin-haikai-news","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2Dh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12157,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10123\/revisions\/12157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}