The venerable tanka and her upstart cousin kyoka
mingle with Kerouac’s American pop haiku in five-liner imagist
poems and linked sequences. In Windfall Apples, Richard
Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful
reflection.
mingle with Kerouac’s American pop haiku in five-liner imagist
poems and linked sequences. In Windfall Apples, Richard
Stevenson mixes east and west with backyard barbecue and rueful
reflection.
Backyard barbecues, rueful reflections
Richard Stevenson teaches English and CreativeWriting at Lethbridge College. His most recent books include alyric/narrative collection of poems, Wiser Pills (2008), andtwo collections of haiku, senryu, and tanka: The Emerald Hour(2008) and Tidings of Magpies (2008).