{"id":3555,"date":"2005-01-20T11:58:01","date_gmt":"2005-01-20T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2005\/01\/20\/peggy-lyles-inaugural-visit-t"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:02","slug":"peggy-lyles-inaugural-visit-to-fka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2005\/01\/20\/peggy-lyles-inaugural-visit-to-fka\/","title":{"rendered":"peggy lyles’ inaugural visit to f\/k\/a"},"content":{"rendered":"
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wind and rain<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
the hand I reach for<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n
in the dark<\/em><\/span><\/div>\n

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“In awe, girl!” That’s how I feel reading the haiku of <\/span>Peggy Lyles<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 After yesterday’s <\/span><\/div>\n
sneak preview<\/span><\/a>, today is actually\u00a0Peggy’s second <\/em>inaugural post at f\/k\/a<\/em>, and it is time <\/span><\/div>\n
for an introduction.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Peggy Lyles\u00a0grew up in the South Carolina Lowcountry and now lives near Atlanta, <\/span><\/div>\n
Georgia.\u00a0\u00a0 She’s is a writer and painter, and for five years was poetry editor of the regional <\/span><\/div>\n
magazine Georgia Journal<\/em>.\u00a0 Since the late 1970\u2019s, her work has been published regularly <\/span><\/div>\n
in leading haiku journals in the United States and abroad, and she has both won and judged <\/span><\/div>\n
many of the most respected haiku contests\u00a0(not at the same time).\u00a0 She is now an associate <\/span><\/div>\n
editor of the The Heron’s Nest<\/em> haiku journal.\u00a0\u00a0 Peggy is often asked to read her poetry at <\/span><\/div>\n
festivals and workshops, and in bookstores and classrooms.<\/span><\/div>\n
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The best way to get to know Peggy Lyles, however, is to read her haiku.\u00a0 As Christopher <\/span><\/div>\n
Herold, the founding editor of The Heron’s Nest<\/em>, explains:<\/span><\/div>\n
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“Peggy Lyles is one of our most highly regarded English language <\/span><\/div>\n
haiku poets, <\/span>and for good reason. She is finely attuned to her surroun-<\/span><\/div>\n
dings, and when she g<\/span>ives expression to her experiences of the world <\/span><\/div>\n
around her, she is utterly honest. <\/span>As I read her poems I know full well <\/span><\/div>\n
that there is no contrivance, that I have not <\/span>been manipulated. Lyles <\/span><\/div>\n
doesn\u2019t pad her haiku with unnecessary words, nor does <\/span>she strip them <\/span><\/div>\n
down to the point of being inaccessible. She sustains her focus <\/span>on the <\/span><\/div>\n
experiences that inspire her, thereby gaining better understanding of them. <\/span><\/div>\n
When it comes time to translate those experiences into poems, she finds <\/span><\/div>\n
uncomplicated <\/span>words and natural syntax to reveal her discoveries as <\/span><\/div>\n
clearly <\/span>as possible.”<\/span><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
You can learn much more about Peggy and find examples of her haiku <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> (a comprehensive review of To Hear the Rain<\/span><\/a>: Selected Haiku of Peggy Lyles<\/em>), and <\/span>here<\/span><\/a> (a profile at the Millikin University haiku website, including an interview).\u00a0 For now, I am most honored to have Peggy Willis Lyles gracing this website, and present a handful for your enjoyment:.
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into the night<\/span><\/div>\n
we talk of human cloning<\/span><\/div>\n
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river baptism<\/span><\/div>\n
another frog<\/span><\/div>\n
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high noon<\/span><\/div>\n
a cat stares down<\/span><\/div>\n
the chipmunk’s hole<\/span><\/div>\n

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\"LylesRainN\" <\/span>Peggy Lyles<\/span><\/a>, from <\/span>To Hear the Rain<\/em><\/span><\/a> (Brooks Books, 2002)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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one-breath\u00a0pundit<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span>\"\"<\/a> I listened to the Inaugural Speech, but did not watch it.\u00a0 I wasn’t inspired by what I heard and wonder just which yoke <\/span><\/span>of tyranny America will be attempting to lift next.\u00a0\u00a0 In the NYT<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
today, Thomas L. Friedman notes that Europe is one big Blue State, while quoting a recent visitor <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
to Iran, who <\/span><\/span>says Iran is the “ultimate red state.”<\/a> Will Iranians soon be praising our Crusader-in-<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Chief?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"full Would mooning lawyers<\/a> gets the public’s attention and help achieve tort reform?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Paul D. Winston suggests it might in his Commentary at Business Insurance<\/em> magazine.\u00a0 (“Making a <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Case for Tort Reform,” Jan 17, 2005)\u00a0\u00a0 I’m not sure the tort reformers really want the public looking<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
closely at who has the most to gain and lose from tort reform.\u00a0 (pointer from our moon-gazing — of the lunar, not legal, variety — \u00a0friend,<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
the RiskProf<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"tiny Ohio’s AG is seeking frivolousness sanctions against the Election Protection legal team,<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
which is contesting the November 2002 election in Ohio.\u00a0\u00a0 Read the anti-Bust side of the controversy<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 (via Votelaw<\/a>) <\/span>I hope politicians don’t start giving frivolousness motions a bad name.\u00a0 The <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
results here should be interesting, and will perhaps put an end to frivolous claims of frivolousness.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
from dagosan<\/strong><\/a>:<\/em><\/div>\n
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holding her breath
\n\u2019til\u00a0the engine starts \u2013
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[Jan. 20, 2005]<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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wind and rain the hand I reach for in the dark “In awe, girl!” That’s how I feel reading the haiku of Peggy Lyles.\u00a0 After yesterday’s sneak preview, today is actually\u00a0Peggy’s second inaugural post at f\/k\/a, and it is time for an introduction. . Peggy Lyles\u00a0grew up in the South Carolina Lowcountry and now lives […]<\/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":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haiku-or-senryu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-Vl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","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=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11744,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/11744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}