Poetry Corner: Regional Reading “High-Tech-Ku”

POETRY CORNER – The Regional Reading

– 06/14/17

Hosted by Kathabela Wilson

In our age of technology there are many new influences on poetry of all kinds. When the world, instead of having the historical distance, becomes simultaneous, a region of our minds, we find a strong experimentation developing in all the arts. Here are two exciting poets doing unique, powerful things with poetry and especially haiku. They incorporate discovery, beauty, and resonant sharing with others, to awaken new sensitivities and expanding possibilities.

This is the seventh in our series of Regional Reading haiku Poetry Corners featuring haiku poets who will be visiting Santa Fe, New Mexico in September for Haiku North America 2017*. Our corners develop from the themes highlighted by their poems and concerns.

~ Kathabela

Artwork by Fay Aoygi

Fay Aoyagi

moonlight
and its demand for
two-factor authentication

winter galaxy
the social network
of lost mermaids

Bring Your Own Device and a bunch of chrysanthemums

Moore’s Law not applicable to me and chrysanthemums

Fay Aoyagi lives and works in Silicon Valley. For her, regional means the world of information technology. She makes a living as a free-lancer interpreter working for HP (now HPE), IBM, Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. All of us share this neighborhood and so results as this refreshing taste of contemporary regional haiku!

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Three haiku signs created by Miriam Sagan. The haiku is by medieval Japanese woman poet, Chiyo-ni (translated by Miriam Sagan and Isabel Winson-Sagan).

Miriam Sagan

segment
more beautiful than the whole—
suminagashi

a pot of freesia,
the neighbors also
bring all the gossip

quite suddenly
realizing
something else

Miriam Sagan has lived on Santa Fe’s unfashionable west side for over thirty years. She works to capture place and moment in poetry and Japanese marbling–suminagash–which she does in her backyard in all kinds of weather. Most recent books are MAP OF THE LOST (UNM Press) and SEVEN PLACES IN AMERICA (Sherman Asher). Her site specific poetry installations include geocaches, weathergrams, clothes lines, road signs, and pathways–all to surprise the passer-by.

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*The Regional Reading will be performed live at the conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico, in September, 2017, led by Kathabela Wilson. The dramatic presentation will be accompanied by Rick Wilson on flutes of the various regions. Poets from Australia, India, Canada, United States, and many other regions will be presenting. Look for their haiku in future Poetry Corners. Anyone can​ register for the conference and send their haiku to Scott Wiggerman for the anthology.

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