Last week! My electronic books (ebooks) are on sale
at 50% off ($3) through January 1, 2011 at Smashwords.com:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/17633
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/18520
Enter codes:
Haiku Notebook Second Edition - VW79L
Small Events (2nd Expanded Ed., Haibun book) - QL72R
Happy New Year!!
Bill
This blog is an extension of the ideas presented in my book (Haiku Notebook Second Edition, smashwords.com, 2010). It is intended to be a forum for discussing haiku and haibun. My hope as an educator is to stimulate interest in writing these forms. So, please feel free to post. [NOTE: click "comments" to read poems by other poets, as well as discussion]. Thank you for visiting!
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Saturday, December 25, 2010
Monday, December 20, 2010
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Friday, November 19, 2010
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Friday, October 22, 2010
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Saturday, October 9, 2010
Sunday, October 3, 2010
Friday, October 1, 2010
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Friday, August 27, 2010
Friday, August 20, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Small Events: Haibun by W. F. Owen (Expanded 2nd Ed.)
Hi All,
My haibun book now is available as an ebook (all major formats)
by clicking on the title above. Here is the description:
Awarded Best Haibun book by the Haiku Society of America in 2008,
this expanded second edition offers sixty haibun. A haibun links brief,
imagistic and poetic prose with one or more haiku. Traced to Basho’s
17th century travel writings, these English-language haibun involve
concrete stories (small events) where the everyday becomes remarkable.
Come join the author in reliving these epiphanies.
You can check out a free sample of 25% of the book there.
Thanks! Soon, I will resume posting new material here.
Bill
My haibun book now is available as an ebook (all major formats)
by clicking on the title above. Here is the description:
Awarded Best Haibun book by the Haiku Society of America in 2008,
this expanded second edition offers sixty haibun. A haibun links brief,
imagistic and poetic prose with one or more haiku. Traced to Basho’s
17th century travel writings, these English-language haibun involve
concrete stories (small events) where the everyday becomes remarkable.
Come join the author in reliving these epiphanies.
You can check out a free sample of 25% of the book there.
Thanks! Soon, I will resume posting new material here.
Bill
Monday, July 5, 2010
Haiku Notebook (2nd Ed.) on sale!
As an introductory offer, my ebook is on sale (50% off) this month.
I also have my sci-fi novel on sale at Smashwords.com as well.
By the way, I am preparing a 2nd Expanded Ed. of my haibun book
(Small Events) and it should be available in all ebook formats by
the end of the month. Some of you may know that book was awarded
Best Haibun book by the Haiku Society of America in 2008.
I'll let you know when it's available. Thanks!
I also have my sci-fi novel on sale at Smashwords.com as well.
By the way, I am preparing a 2nd Expanded Ed. of my haibun book
(Small Events) and it should be available in all ebook formats by
the end of the month. Some of you may know that book was awarded
Best Haibun book by the Haiku Society of America in 2008.
I'll let you know when it's available. Thanks!
Friday, July 2, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Second Edition of Haiku Notebook
Haiku Notebook (second edition) is available
now as an ebook on smashwords.com. Soon, it
should be available on Apple's iBooks.
Click the title above for the link.
now as an ebook on smashwords.com. Soon, it
should be available on Apple's iBooks.
Click the title above for the link.
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
the yellow school bus still comes out this far
with only a handful of kids most are grown and
gone to the cities where jobs might be some hit
the high seas with dixie cups on their heads some
packed a weapon in the dusty towns in a war far
from that bus and from the yellow ribbons they'll
never see
walking his property the call to supper
w. f. owen
with only a handful of kids most are grown and
gone to the cities where jobs might be some hit
the high seas with dixie cups on their heads some
packed a weapon in the dusty towns in a war far
from that bus and from the yellow ribbons they'll
never see
walking his property the call to supper
w. f. owen
Sunday, May 23, 2010
In my opinion, one of the best guides for beginning haiku poets
is by Lee Gurga (Haiku: A Poet's Guide). I mention that because he describes nuances between
haiku, senryu and poems not quite fitting either type, such as
the one he used of mine: "removing her sweater/the spark/no longer there"
(p.57). Perhaps my recent post of "blossoming sky" also is not exactly haiku. Check it out.
Over the summer, in preparation for revising haiku notebook as an ebook, I'll be rereading other haiku books such as Gurga's and may post some missives here.
is by Lee Gurga (Haiku: A Poet's Guide). I mention that because he describes nuances between
haiku, senryu and poems not quite fitting either type, such as
the one he used of mine: "removing her sweater/the spark/no longer there"
(p.57). Perhaps my recent post of "blossoming sky" also is not exactly haiku. Check it out.
Over the summer, in preparation for revising haiku notebook as an ebook, I'll be rereading other haiku books such as Gurga's and may post some missives here.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Friday, May 7, 2010
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Monday, April 12, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Friday, April 9, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Recent publications from Frogpond Vol. 33, Number 1, Winter 2010:
in the half-light of morning
here in Hawaii in a room which really was a garage cleaned up just enough to be livable i survey the aches from the previous long day of diving for a living and it was a good job though no health insurance or even surety of a next meal i peer out to the tatami mats strung together to hide the grease underneath now full in spots with sand dragged in from the beach just inside the door a mouse sits up on its hind legs and i think for a moment to get up and shoo it away but no let it be it adds charm to the place so i drift back into sleep eyelids closed i see the ocean floor much like i did so often when spearing fish while free diving for hours i drift and that screen plays a movie of lava rock and fish flitting i dream . . . my long-time friend with a droopy face from Bell's palsy which lasts only a week he feels it will be forever maybe a stroke but he is only in his 30s so i try to reassure him and think better of joking about the times i shot fish through both eyes they twitched at the end of the spear but that was just reflex
in tree shade i ink one side of the fish
(page 57)
heat wave the scratch of a sun-dried towel
(page 25)
w. f. owen
in the half-light of morning
here in Hawaii in a room which really was a garage cleaned up just enough to be livable i survey the aches from the previous long day of diving for a living and it was a good job though no health insurance or even surety of a next meal i peer out to the tatami mats strung together to hide the grease underneath now full in spots with sand dragged in from the beach just inside the door a mouse sits up on its hind legs and i think for a moment to get up and shoo it away but no let it be it adds charm to the place so i drift back into sleep eyelids closed i see the ocean floor much like i did so often when spearing fish while free diving for hours i drift and that screen plays a movie of lava rock and fish flitting i dream . . . my long-time friend with a droopy face from Bell's palsy which lasts only a week he feels it will be forever maybe a stroke but he is only in his 30s so i try to reassure him and think better of joking about the times i shot fish through both eyes they twitched at the end of the spear but that was just reflex
in tree shade i ink one side of the fish
(page 57)
heat wave the scratch of a sun-dried towel
(page 25)
w. f. owen
Friday, March 19, 2010
Sunday, March 14, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
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