> For years, since its inception, the conference abstracts had been published hard copy in thick yellow paper-bound volumes. This became so burdensome that the LPI published a separate program brochure for the meeting and asked each author to provide a short description of the longer abstract.
Thick stack of paper, distending the folder; thud.
> [...] this was a kind of historic mistake of translation that “grafted” Japanese syllabics onto English. “It’s stuck,” he says, but it’s “not the way that modern English poets write” haiku. “It’s a lot more open than that,” with the three lines just conforming to short/long/short. There are even English haiku that are one or two lines long.
Is it our nature to make rules, and to break them, doing whatever we want?
> “I do think haiku helps me as a science communicator,” Kraal says, “because it causes you to reflect carefully on the meaning of each word and how ideas link together.” -Erin R. Kraal
Up until about ten minutes ago I adhered to the 5/7/5 structure of haiku. Alan Watts’ frog-plop haiku snapped me out of my rigidity.
When I was teaching science to young adults I incorporated observational drawing to help students practice seeing with less judgement. Poetry also helps me slow down and consider, observe, and feel how the subject matter is connected to other things.
I guess if one can have haiku that reflect different ways of looking at the world, as the three famous written by the 3 greatest warlords of japan, it would be more interesting.
Thick stack of paper, distending the folder; thud.
> [...] this was a kind of historic mistake of translation that “grafted” Japanese syllabics onto English. “It’s stuck,” he says, but it’s “not the way that modern English poets write” haiku. “It’s a lot more open than that,” with the three lines just conforming to short/long/short. There are even English haiku that are one or two lines long.
Is it our nature to make rules, and to break them, doing whatever we want?
> “I do think haiku helps me as a science communicator,” Kraal says, “because it causes you to reflect carefully on the meaning of each word and how ideas link together.” -Erin R. Kraal
Up until about ten minutes ago I adhered to the 5/7/5 structure of haiku. Alan Watts’ frog-plop haiku snapped me out of my rigidity.
When I was teaching science to young adults I incorporated observational drawing to help students practice seeing with less judgement. Poetry also helps me slow down and consider, observe, and feel how the subject matter is connected to other things.