Maureen Crockett thought it’d be good if I’d explain a little bit about haiku for the uninitiated. I put together this slideshow. I hope it inspires you to write some haiku that you would share with us.

Douglas Imbrogno, editor of thegazz.com, sent an animation he made of a short Issa poem: the animation comes from Hundred Mountain, a former web magazine on Buddhism he used to edit.

He also passed on a relevant link, a poem about the end of Basho’s life, published some years back in the magazine– (click it) Basho’s end-of-life poem.