Haiga is a Japanese art form combining haiku, written in calligraphic script, with a painting. The painting may not be an illustration of the poem. Instead, the poem and the painting may be in juxtaposition to one another — so that their contrast may create fuller meaning. Here is an example by Yosa Buson, an [...]
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Haiga
Posted in Poetry Lessons on February 3, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Sevenlings
Posted in Poetry Lessons on March 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I was recently exploring The American Poetry Journal’s website and discovered this wonderful description of sevenlings, a poetic form based on a famous poem by Anna Akhmatova (one of my favorite poets!). Your challenge? Write a poem in this form! Direct from APJ: “The sevenling is a poem of seven lines inspired by the form [...]
Do you … clerihew?
Posted in Poetry Lessons, The Daily Poems on February 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending a one-man dramatic performance by John “Chuck” Chalberg who was impersonating G.K. Chesterton, “the prince of paradox,” a man who wrote the Father Brown mysteries, a biography of Saint Francis, and more than 75 other books; he famously influenced C.S. Lewis. As Chalberg showed, he was dramatic, [...]
Preaching & Poetry with Alice Holthuis
Posted in Poetry Lessons, The Daily Poems, tagged Alice Holthuis, Church on the Hill, José Martí, preaching, Selección de Versos Sencillos: XLIV, Spanglish, The Rebellion, Tiene el leopardo un abrigo on February 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
My sister Alice is awesome. At the moment, she’s a senior in high school and getting all her college acceptance letters (hooray! I am so proud of you!!) after months of waiting on pins and needles. She’s also a devout Christian, and her youth pastor has asked her to preach to her youth group, the Rebellion. [...]
