A new Per Diem poem appears every day at the top right corner of The Haiku Foundation Home page. Each poem is part of a monthly, themed collection created by a guest editor. As I noted in an earlier post (which can be found here), The Haiku Foundation kindly asked me to be guest editor… Read More Per Diem Archive: June 2020
The Haiku Foundation (THF), based in the US State of Virginia, archives a treasure trove of English-language haiku and seeks active exchange with other haiku languages and cultures around the world. A new Per Diem poem appears every day at the top right corner of The Haiku Foundation Home page. Each poem is part of… Read More The Haiku Foundation: Per Diem
The Golden Triangle Business Improvement District (BID) in Washington DC encourages economic development through a range of initiatives including public art projects. The District stretches from the White House to Dupont Circle. This is the seventh year the BID has run the Golden Haiku poetry contest. More than 1,700 entries were judged by a distinguished… Read More Golden Haiku Contest: Washington DC
The final Brush With Poetry for the year will be held on Sunday 24 November 2019. In addition to the usual open mic readings, Laurie McDonald will appear as feature poet for the afternoon. Laurie writes and performs Australian ‘bush’ poetry and other poems capturing his quirky observations from life. Laurie describes most of his… Read More Laurie McDonald at Brush With Poetry
The 2019 Poetry On The Move festival included several poetry readings at Smith’s Alternative in Canberra. Among the featured poets were this year’s Poetry On The Move Poets-in-Residence: Kei Miller, a Jamaican poet based in England; Mani Rao from India; Alvin Pang, based in Singapore; and Tricia Dearborn from Australia. These poets, together with a… Read More Kei Miller Reads at Poetry On The Move
Poetry on the Move is a five-day poetry festival curated by the International Poetry Studies Institute at the University of Canberra (UC). The festival has been running each year since 2015 and offers a busy program of workshops, panel discussions, poet interviews, symposium papers and, of course, poetry readings. The events are held at several… Read More 2019 Poetry on the Move Festival
Spring is here, the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming. So it’s the perfect time to get along to Binalong for the next Brush With Poetry which will be held on Sunday, 29 September 2019. The venue will be the Café on Queen at 15 Queen Street, Binalong, New South Wales. Coffee, cake… Read More Brush With Poetry: 29 September 2019
Three Canberra poets presented their work at Manning Clark House (MCH) on Thursday 27 June 2019. MCH is a not-for-profit organisation supporting history, literature, culture and human rights. The house was formerly the home of eminent Australian historian, Professor Manning Clark (1915-1991). Clark’s great work was his six volume study, A History of Australia. Nowadays,… Read More Poetry at Manning Clark House
Gregory Piko 