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Haiku's Reception And Practice In Contemporary North American Poetry, Judy Halebsky, Ayako Takahashi

Collected Faculty Scholarship

This article traces the chronological development of haiku translation, which includes Imagism and haiku, the transitional period around the 1950's, the emergence of English Haiku and contemporary haiku practice. To examine the influence of haiku in contemporary American poetry, the discussion includes west coast fi-ee verse poets whose work draws from Basho's haiku in different ways.

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Translations And Migrations Of The Poetic Diary: Roy Kiyooka’S Wheels, Judy Halebsky

Collected Faculty Scholarship

Formal aspects of haiku inform Roy Kiyooka’s 1969 travel journal Wheels. In contrast to earlier scholarship, this study differentiates haiku traditions in Japan from English language haiku in North America. This framework reveals how Kiyooka employs select aspects of haiku practice to voice his othered cultural location.

Precipitate, Erin Redfern

Bryant Literary Review

He had it in the bag.

He could have drawn

the string.

My Heart Is Close, Lainey Brierton

Calliope

No abstract provided.

Yusef Komunyakaa Folio, Yusef Komunyakaa

Corresponding Voices

In this poem, the speaker is talking to his dog about a tune whose notes bent life into the perpetual question - a grasping, a condemnation, where the cure was part Coltrane, part Miles, and part love.

Cross The Line: Ventures Of A Collegiate Student-Athlete, Jolynne Denman

Honors Capstones

Capstone submitted as a graduation requirement for the BSU Honors Program.

Dancing Fire, Helena Alfajora

Canterbury Scholars

My creative process is like the Hero’s Journey. Wrought with “the call to action,” I felt a call from these pieces to bring them into our material world—the ideas, the moods, the colors wanting to translate from my mind through my hand and now, into this room. Through all the musings of our daily lives, these pieces came to be through different mediums with different mentors and different mindsets. The one constant throughout was my content, my inspiration, my grounding—the Hawaiian goddess, Pele.

Her form takes place in art, dance, written words, life, nature, my family, those around me. In …

Blade, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz was awarded the University of Cincinnati Graduate Poetry Prize in 2016 and appeared on the official website of the Academy of American Poets.

La Llorona At The Saloon, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Aster(ix).

Cazar Means To Hunt Not To Marry, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in December.

On Being Called Jorge, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.

Freckles, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Indianola Review.

Alien, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review.

El Rio, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in Crab Creek Review. “El Rio” comes from trying to move beyond predictable tropes about border crossing and work out how the river makes itself known, through dreams as well as everyday occurrences of profiling, and unignorable.

Cornflower, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Leave, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Midnight, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

The Music Inside, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

Night Sky Manifesto, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.

The Story Of Eyes, José Angel Araguz

Faculty Publications

This poem by José Angel Araguz originally appeared in The Inflectionist Review.