{"id":9193,"date":"2008-04-25T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T16:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/04\/25\/whats-john-stevenson-been-up-to\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:28","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:28","slug":"whats-john-stevenson-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/04\/25\/whats-john-stevenson-been-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"what’s john stevenson been up to?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Seen here yesterday. . . .<\/strong><\/em> [big<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

cherry blossoms
\nanother year
\nof haiku <\/font><\/p>\n

……… by john stevenson – Upstate Dim Sum<\/em><\/a><\/em> (Vol. 2007\/II, Fall 2007<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font>R<\/strong><\/em>umor has it that haiku poet-editor John Stevenson<\/a> snuck into Schenectady at the end of the afternoon yesterday (April 24, 2008), for a quick look at the cherry blossoms on display at Congregation Gates of Heaven<\/a>. [Click here<\/a> and here<\/a> to see why it was worth the drive from Albany.] I was on that very corner snapping photos around 3 PM yesterday, and I’m sorry to have missed John (and his friendly guide Prof. Yu Chang<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Earlier this month, John was in New York City, serving (again<\/a>) as judge for the English-language section of a student haiku contest sponsored by the United Nations International School.<\/p>\n

Christmas evening
\nthe snow
\ndoesn’t stick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

……. by john stevenson – Upstate Dim Sum<\/em><\/a><\/em> (Vol. 2007\/II<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now that he’s managing editor of The Heron’s Nest<\/em> journal (see prior post<\/a>), John’s award-winning haiku are no longer appearing at that venerable venue. So, I thought I’d post a few of his poems that are not found yet online, from the last issue of Upstate Dim Sum<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/em>, as well as a trio from Shamrock Haiku Journal<\/a><\/em>, which was launched in 2007 by the Irish Haiku Society<\/a>. No matter what else he’s doing, or where he’s hanging his hat, you can be sure that John is hatching or crafting haiku.<\/p>\n

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the tide <\/font>
\n arranging rocks and sand, <\/font>
\n just as I would<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nsmell of the earth turned up by a tractor<\/font>
\n
\n<\/font><\/p>\n

showing the new kid <\/font>
\n which corner of the lot <\/font>
\n is home plate<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n


\n<\/font><\/p>\n

\n
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old pasture <\/font>
\n the buzzing <\/font>
\n in a hollow tree<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n


\nlights on
\nin the schoolhouse
\nwinter afternoon<\/font><\/p>\n

\n

warm breezes <\/font>
\n seem responsible <\/font>
\n for the way she walks<\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/font><\/p>\n

<\/a> ….. by John Stevenson – Upstate Dim Sum<\/em><\/a><\/em> (Fall 2007<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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poor singing voices
\nnevertheless
\nthey have built a nest<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

a small kitchen
\nthe toaster
\nwarms one corner<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Impressionism
\nladies with parasols
\nwalk to the next painting<\/p>\n

<\/font>…. by John Stevenson – Shamrock Haiku Journal<\/a><\/em> (Vol. 1, 2007) \"shamrocksSN\" <\/font>
\n“a small kitchen” – also. pub. Upstate Dim Sum<\/em> (Fall 2007)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seen here yesterday. . . . [big] cherry blossoms another year of haiku ……… by john stevenson – Upstate Dim Sum (Vol. 2007\/II, Fall 2007) Rumor has it that haiku poet-editor John Stevenson snuck into Schenectady at the end of the afternoon yesterday (April 24, 2008), for a quick look at the cherry blossoms on […]<\/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-9193","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-2oh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193","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=9193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12296,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9193\/revisions\/12296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}