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<\/a> T<\/em><\/strong>he latest issue of Frogpond<\/em><\/a>, the thrice-yearly, hard-copy Journal of the Haiku Society of America, arrived today.\u00a0 Naturally, the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang is hopping for joy — even Prof. Yabut, who enjoys both cooing and kvetsching.\u00a0\u00a0 As expected, Frogpond<\/em> 31:3 (Fall 2008) has haiku and senryu, renku, rengay, tan renga and verse sequences, plus reviews, essays, Musings to the Editor (this time from haijin diva Roberta Beary), and more.<\/p>\n\n .. Frogpond<\/em> 31:3 (Fall 2008) has a new Cover Page Logo in color\u00a0 Since the Gang likes the tiny poems best, we’ve only concentrated so far on the haiku and senryu.\u00a0 Twenty of the 130 poems in that section were written by f\/k\/a<\/em> Honored Guest Poets<\/a>. We’ll soon share selections with you from the other genre, but for now we’re proudly presenting — without commentary — the haiku and senryu penned by f\/k\/a<\/em>‘s poet family from Frogpond<\/em> 31:3 (Fall 2008).<\/p>\n moonbright night crunch of frost ….. by Carolyn Hall<\/p>\n scenic stop — … by Gary Hotham<\/p>\n Intermittent birdsong As geese arc, the fog ……. by Rebecca Lilly<\/p>\n pussy willows in a vase … by Andrew Riutta<\/p>\n ..\u00a0 .. stop sign — Memorial Day … by Yu Chang, New York<\/p>\n Memorial Day …. by David Giacalone<\/p>\n homesick tracing the stream to its source<\/p>\n distant thunder a crab hangs from the chicken neck<\/p>\n …. by w.f. owen<\/p>\n rambling phonecall afterglow ….. by Roberta Beary<\/p>\n Plaza de Tirso de Molina<\/em><\/p>\n the hiss of water … by David G. Lanoue<\/p>\n a few bees ….. by Peggy Willis Lyles<\/p>\n lunch hour …… by Barry George<\/p>\n fortieth birthday …… by Michael Dylan Welch<\/p>\n rolling thunder ………… by Tom Painting<\/p>\n I tighten the belt …. by John Stevenson<\/p>\n heat wave — … by Alice Frampton<\/p>\n The Frogpond<\/em> editors (George Swede and Anita Krumins) say<\/a> the new format allows “readers to decide for themselves which form is which.”\u00a0 It must be the lawyer in him, but Yabut enjoys<\/em> the ambiguities in the genre and the analysis and second-guessing that take place when deciding whether a poem fits in one category or the other, and imagining what might have brought the editors to place a particular poem in a particular category.\u00a0 That is not going to happen very much, if at all, with the two genre lumped together.\u00a0\u00a0 Frankly, it seems like a cop out — perhaps a balm for those who are somehow insulted when a poem is called senryu rather than haiku — that blurs the forms and helps to water down the haiku concept.<\/em> More and more opinion and intellectualizing about human nature will be called haiku (and considered worthy of selection for high-quality journals like Frogpond<\/em>).\u00a0 It’s a trend the f\/k\/a<\/em> Gang deplores<\/a> and will surely write about in more detail again soon — taking up Roberta Beary’s advice in her Musing on Civility in Haiku USA that we do more “closely reasoned critique” in the haijin community.<\/p>\n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The latest issue of Frogpond, the thrice-yearly, hard-copy Journal of the Haiku Society of America, arrived today.\u00a0 Naturally, the f\/k\/a Gang is hopping for joy — even Prof. Yabut, who enjoys both cooing and kvetsching.\u00a0\u00a0 As expected, Frogpond 31:3 (Fall 2008) has haiku and senryu, renku, rengay, tan renga and verse sequences, plus reviews, essays, […]<\/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_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_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":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-2DP","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157","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=10157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12150,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10157\/revisions\/12150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a> update<\/em><\/strong> (October 16, 2008):The new Frogpond Web Sampler<\/em><\/a>, compiled by HSA webmaster Randy Brooks, is now available at the HSA website. The “online splashes” Sampler<\/a> for Vol. 31:3<\/a> has a half dozen haiku and senryu<\/a> you won’t find here at f\/k\/a<\/em>. It also has:<\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n Enjoy<\/em>:<\/p>\n
\nthe sundial reads
\nhalf-past my bedtime<\/p>\n
\na flurry of chickadees
\nswings the feeder<\/p>\n
\nthe shadows only a shadow
\ncan touch<\/p>\n
\nas maples scintillate —
\nthe work shift changing<\/p>\n
\nclosing behind them . .
\nthe poem’s false start<\/p>\n
\nmy grandfather’s post-stroke
\nhandshake<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\none last look
\nat my father’s house<\/p>\n
\nwashing dead cells
\noff my body<\/p>\n
\na man from Japan
\nsteals second base<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n
\ni count the drinks
\nin her voice<\/p>\n
\naftersex
\nafternoon<\/p>\n
\ngoing nowhere
\nstone poet<\/p>\n
\nleft in the clover
\nafterglow<\/p>\n
\nthe wrecking ball
\ndangles<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nI used to think nothing
\nof taking off my socks<\/p>\n
\nthe tension of chain
\nagainst sprocket<\/p>\n
\nin my son’s car
\nFather’s Day<\/p>\n
\nI catch my sleeve on the nail
\nwhere his picture hung<\/p>\n<\/a> D<\/em><\/strong>id we say without editorial comment?\u00a0 Well, cranky Prof. Yabut<\/a> has an opinion on putting both haiku and senryu in the same section in Vol. 31:3, rather than separating the two genre, as has been the Frogpond<\/em> custom since 1990.\u00a0 While haiku relate nature to human nature, senryu is similar in structure to haiku, but focus directly on human nature.\u00a0 Naturally, the two poetic forms can overlap. (go here<\/a> for more on senryu)<\/p>\n