Why Haibun are showing up everywhere these days, I can’t say for sure but I suspect people enjoy the imbalance, the disquisition propped on top and a tiny haiku at the bottom as if a giant cart is propelled by a single wheel, maybe a roller ball for that little ink flourish. The wheel or […]
Janet Bowdan
Janet Bowdan’s poems have appeared in APR, Tahoma Literary Review, The Rewilding Anthology, Sequestrum, Lit Shark, and elsewhere. The editor of Common Ground Review, she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts, with her husband and their son (when he comes home from college). Janet has just cleaned out her office after 30 years of teaching at Western New England University and is surrounded by stacks of books she does not have space for.