This week I’m sharing another installment archiving my Instagram poetry project entitled @poetryamano (poetry by hand). This account focuses on sharing poems written by hand, either in longhand or through more experimental forms such as erasures/blackout poems and found poems.
Below are highlights from August 2017. This month found me focusing on haiku on short, imagistic haiku. Also included below is a haiga inspired by the 2017 eclipse.
Be sure to check out the previous installments of the archive – and if you’re on Instagram, follow @poetryamano for the full happenings.
Enjoy these forays into variations on the short lyric!
Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: faces shuffle through the coffee drips its bitter business.”Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “at night lilacs lose their color to the moon.”Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “writing across this blank paper a branch’s shadow.”Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “why again why the wind fed broken glass.”Image description: A handwritten haiku that reads: “reading scraps of Sappho years later my ears burn.”Image description: A handwritten tanka that reads: “the gray cat’s eyes stop to take you in long before you can place them.”Image description: A handwritten haiga that reads: “after the eclipse same trees under the same moon.”Image description: A handwritten haiga that reads: “paper clip dash of wire hugs air to itself.”
José Angel Araguz’s most recent collection is An Empty Pot’s Darkness (Airlie Press). His poetry, creative nonfiction, and book reviews have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poetry International, The Acentos Review, and Oxidant | Engine among other places. He blogs at The Friday Influence. José is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander and is also a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program.
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