22nd to 31st days of Alan Summers as featured poet at Cornell University USA

Haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University, Mann Library  

http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alam-summers/

 

blue brush stroke©Alan Summers

thunder snow
the wind-shifting scent
of fox

Alan Summers
fox dreams (2012) ed. Aubrie Cox; Temps Libre Coups de coeur – Favourites (janvier 2013) 

toy suns
the winter-dark rain
smashes the city

Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit (vol 23 no. 4 November 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012) 

Does Fish-God Know

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

the moon is broken
Battersea Power Station
from a train window

Alan Summers
Award credit: Winner, World Monuments Fund 2012 Haiku Contest

 

 

 

the names of rain
a blackbird’s subsong
into dusk

Alan Summers
Haiku News Vol. 1 No. 35 (2012)

subsong:
http://tinyurl.com/blackbirdsubsong


 

 

Hirst's butterflies disturbing the exhibits people

Alan Summers
Roadrunner 12.3 (December 2012); Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1, No.1 (2013)

Damien Hirst: http://www.damienhirst.com/

 

 

 

chestnut moon shifting in my memory ghost floors

Alan Summers
Roadrunner 12.3 (December 2012); Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts Vol.1, No.1 (2013)

 

fading stars
a hedgehog haphazards
its way back home

Alan Summers
The Heron’s Nest Vol XIV, No. 2 (2012)

 

 

Valentine’s Day
my wife reads up
on Henry VIII

Alan Summers
Blithe Spirit vol. 20 no. 3 (2010); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012)

 

 

 

British sales: http://www.ironpress.co.uk/books/humours.html

International and card purchases: http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/browse/anthologies/the-humours-of-haiku/

 

 

 

pull of stars turning cold the snail's navigation

 

Alan Summers
Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012); Blithe Spirit (February 2013) 

 

 

 

 

 

this small ache and all the rain too robinsong

 

Alan Summers
Modern Haiku vol. 44.1 (Winter/Spring 2013)

 

 

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19th, 20th and 21st days of Alan Summers as featured poet at Cornell University USA

Cornell University, Mann Library  

http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alam-summers/

 

zombie debt–
the practised slice
of a bread knife


Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Haiku News (Vol. 1 No. 41 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)

 

zombie debt: http://consumerist.com/2013/02/19/debt-collectors-keep-calling-about-bogus-debt-even-after-being-threatened-with-suit/



train whistle
a blackbird hops
along its notes

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Presence #47 (2012): The Haiku Foundation Per Diem: The Elements (September 2012)

 

theevandiude choolam
oru karutha pakshi thulli
athin swarangalil
 
Malayalam translation by Narayanan Raghunathan
 
neruppu vantiyin choolam
oru karuppu paravai thulliyatu
antha svarangalil
 
Tamizh translation by Narayanan Raghunathan
 
train seeti
ek kale rang ki chidiya naachti
vah svar lahiri me
 
Hindi translation by Narayanan Raghunathan




rain on the river the jesus star shifting

Alan Summers

Publications credits: Janice M Bostok Haiku Prize 2012 Anthology Evening Breeze

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16th, 17th, and 18th days of Alan Summers as virtual haiku poet in residence at Cornell University USA

Cornell University, Mann Library 
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alam-summers/



snowing through the blizzard particles of me

Alan Summers



Publications credits: 
The Haiku Calendar 2012 (Snapshot Press); The Humours of Haiku (Iron Press 2012); The In-Between Season (With Words Haiku Pamphlet Series 2012)

Award credits:
Winner, The Haiku Calendar Competition 2011 (Snapshot Press)

Iron Press U.K. orders:
http://www.ironpress.co.uk/books/humours.html

International orders (top right alter currencies to US$ or Euros):
http://www.inpressbooks.co.uk/the-humours-of-haiku/












The In-Between Season (With Words Haiku Pamphlet Series 2012)

The pamphlet will be available as an eBook later in 2013
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/in-between-season-haiku-pamphlet-will.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/haiku-from-alan-summerss-recently.html








dandelion wind
mending bridges
in the mist

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit (British Haiku Society Journal Vol 22 No. 3 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)


باد پر قاصدک
مرمت کردن پل
در غبار

bade por ghasdak
maremat kardan pol
dar ghobar

Farsi and romanised Farsi translations by Reza Aerabi





first quarter moon
dancing pinheads burst
into new angel DNA

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
Asahi Shimbun (Japan, 2012); Does Fish-God Know (YTBN Press 2012)





Does Fish-God Know:
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/does-fish-god-know-haiku-collection-by.html
http://area17.blogspot.co.uk/2013/02/new-book-review-of-does-fish-god-know.html
http://www.yettobenamedfreepress.org/p/does-fish-god-know.html

14th & 15th Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University, Mann Library, USA

Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alam-summers/

 

Brocken Inaglory : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Refraction_of_Golden_Gate_Bridge_in_rain_droplets_1.jpg

drifting rain
my hundred autumn rooms
to be alone


Alan Summers
Publication Credit: Mainichi Shimbun (Japan, 2012) Selected by Isamu Hashimoto

Östersund, Sweden. Credit and copyright- Göran Strand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

full snow moon
the slowness of shadows
caught in branches


Alan Summers
Publications credits: Ryōan-ji sequence (Presence #47 2012)

Snow Moon: http://www.universetoday.com/100283/astrophotos-the-full-snow-moon/

 

The full Moon as seen in Japan on Feb. 25, 2013. Credit and copyright- Masashi Ito

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ryōan-ji

these rocks
I too float among clouds
looking for something

white gravel
each day the monks
rake ripples in time

pure pebble sound
I only know what is
and that is enough

silhouettes of bamboo
at the edge of the garden
we swap stories*

our sharp mysteries
the percussion of sand
over rocks**

falling snow moon
the slowness of shadows
caught in branches


 

* after the classic scenes of Ryōan-ji in Yasujirō Ozu’s film Late Spring,1949
** after John Cage

 

Alan Summers
Publications credits: Presence #47 (2012)

 

 

n.b. The full snow moon haiku at Cornell University's showcase is an edited version to the one that appeared in the sequence.

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A pinch of saffron in the pumpkin soup - Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University, Mann Library, USA

Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/



lullaby of rain
another pinch of saffron
in the pumpkin soup

Alan Summers

Award Credit: 
Editors' Choices, Heron’s Nest (Volume XIV, Number 4: Dec. 2012)
http://theheronsnest.com/commentary124.html    

 
How do you like your pumpkin soup?  
Velouté de potiron au safran?

velouté de potiron
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sukdmG0k1Xs

or...
Saffron Pumpkin Soup Served in Mini Pumpkin Bowls?
http://www.phamfatale.com/id_810/title_Saffron-Pumpkin-Soup-Served-in-Mini-Pumpkin-Bowls/

image©Dave Yoder for The New York Times

Saffron Flavored Pumpkin Soup

    1 Kabocha squash, approximately 4 pounds
    2 leaks, trimmed
    3-4 cups of milk
    1/4 cup of flour
    4 tablespoons of butter
    1 teaspoon of salt
    1/2 teaspoon of white pepper
    1/4 teaspoon of ginger powder
    A large pinch of saffron
    1 whole nutmeg

Cooking with Alia:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PZW2JfLPpA


Navelli Journal
Growers Feel the Squeeze to Sell a Pinch of Saffron and the fascinating story behind saffron:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/world/europe/13saffron.html?_r=0
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Eleventh and Twelfth Days - Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University, Mann Library, USA

Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/



morning star
a can of cherry cola
starts to fizz

Alan Summers

Publications credits:
see haiku here (Japan 2012)

 





Monet’s pain–
the shadows of haybales
lengthening the sunset

Alan Summers
Publications credits: The Bath Burp: Poetry, Music & Arts Monthly Issue No. 10 (2012)
 
To see the Monet art that inspired the haiku:       
Donna Fleischer's excellent word pond
hokku, haiku, haibun, free form poetry, music, photography, & other arts (Aprll 2012)
https://donnafleischer.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/haiku-of-ekphrasis-by-alan-summers-area-17/



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Day of Crows: Tenth Day - Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University, Mann Library, USA

Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/



another hot day
a leaking water pipe stopped
by the jackdaw’s beak

Alan Summers
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alan-summers/page/22/
  
The haiku came about during a heatwave, and I noticed a jackdaw taking advantage of a flowing overflow pipe at the front of the block of apartments where I live, in Bradford on Avon, England.
 
The crow family are amazing.   They have strong memories and can pass on both good deeds and ill deeds from humans to fellow crows outside their flock.  Always be kind to a crow and they'll spread the good word that we are not all bad.

As I hadn't taken an image myself at the time, this photo gives you an idea:

A jackdaw (Corvus monedula) observes the water source and drinks from the tap—Deshakalyan Chowdhury—AFP/Getty Images.

http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/07/the-cleverness-of-crows/
 
 
Haiku Award credit:
Honourable Mention, 14th Mainichi Haiku Contest (Japan 2010)

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Ninth Day: Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA
 
Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/


As a poet and writer I often frequent libraries for workshops I'm running or being asked as a guest poet at a reading series.  During one such event I got talking to the library run café manager who had lost her official work keys.   It didn't go down well as you can imagine with the City Council, but I knew she'd need to relax for the rest of the day, and we did manage to have a few laughs about a very stressful situation.


library café–
we swap lost key stories
as my coffee cools

Alan Summers


My wife and myself are roughly equal on misplacing or losing things, but after losing my keys twice in my younger days, I never put my keys anyway but my trouser pocket.  There is something incredibly discomforting about being  less than an inch away from being able to enter your home but for the lack of a bit of metal designed to open up that inch or so of wood that makes for a front door to your home.

image©TheEgyptian

Description	A leather keychain
Date	24 June 2007
Source	Own work
Author	TheEgyptian

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leather_key_chain.JPG

How well do you fare in losing things?
 http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/people/losing-our-stuff-losing-our-tempers-1.1262282#.UTt2NIXYw7A


Poem publication credits:
Presence 32  (2007);  Tinywords.com  (2007); The O’Keefe Brief, O’Keefe Library at SAU, St Ambrose University, Iowa, U.S.A. (2007)
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Eighth Day: Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA
 
Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/



ill all day...
a crime novel
in both rooms

Alan Summers

http://raysweb.net/daysendpoetry/pages_large/summers_900x800.html
http://raysweb.net/daysendpoetry/pages_small/summers_850x650.html

Publications credits:
Blithe Spirit vol. 17 no.1 (British Haiku Society journal 2007); Haiku Friends Vol 2 ed. Masaharu Hirata (Japan 2007); Disclaimer, (Bath Spa University 2008); haijinx vol. III issue 1 (2010); Day’s End: Poetry and Photography about aging (2011)

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Seventh Day: Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA
 
Cornell University, Mann Library
Supporting learning and research in the life sciences, agriculture, human ecology and applied social sciences: http://mannlib.cornell.edu/


Toshugu shrine pines
I try to stay as still -
mist and dew

東照宮の 松静か 霧と露

haiku by Alan Summers
Japanese translation: Hidenori Hiruta (Akita, Japan)

Toshugu Shrine:
I visited in 2001 following in the footsteps of Basho.   Toshugu Shrine is the resting place of Togukawa Ieyasu, founder of the Togukawa Shogunate. Basho and Sora visited on the First Day of the Fourth Month (the first day of summer). Mist and dew are kigo for Spring and Autumn, which I use as a metaphor for our beginnings and endings, and our lives inbetween. An allusion is made to Basho’s famous saying about learning from the pine.

Tablet on torii at Toshogu, Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Tablet bears the inscription ''Tōsh&#333 Gongen'' (the posthumous name of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Calligraphy by Emperor Go-Mizunoo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NikkoToriiTablet5127.jpg

I, the copyright holder of this work, release this work into the public domain. This applies worldwide.
In some countries this may not be legally possible; if so:
I grant anyone the right to use this work for any purpose, without any conditions, unless such conditions are required by law.
 

How One Writes in the Haiku Moment: Mythos vs. Logos
William M. Ramsey
Roadrunner (Issue IX:2 2009)
http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/pages92/essay92.htm


Toshugu shrine pines Publications credits:
World Haiku Review, Japan Article - Vending machines and cicadas (March 2003); Hermitage (Romania 2005); Travelogue on World Haiku Festival 2002 Part 1 (Akita International Haiku Network 2010); We Are All Japan (Karakia Press  2012); The In-Between Season (With Words Pamphlet Series 2012)

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Lime Quarter: Sixth Day: Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA: https://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alan-summers/page/31/


lime quarter
an ice cube collapses
over jazz

Alan Summers

linocut byTrevor Haddrell

Bristol Floating Harbour September 2003

 

lime quarter

an ice cube collapses

over jazz

Publication Credits: Presence No.13  (2001); tinywords (2004); See Haiku Here haiga (Japan, 2011); haijinx volume IV, issue 1 (2011); Seven By Twenty (Twitter eMagazine, 2010); Derbyshire Library Service Poem a Month (June 2011); The Haiku Foundation Per Diem series Haiku of the Senses (March 2012); Multiverses 1.1 (2012);  tempslibres - free times (French language Analysis of the Haiku structure feature 2013-03-1); Under the Basho Vol 1.1 Autumn 2013; THFhaiku (The Haiku Foundation)mApp Version 5.0 (iTunes, January 2016)

Feature: 

Blogging Along Tobacco Road: Alan Summers - Three Questions (2010) 

Sunday, June 13, 2010

https://tobaccoroadpoet.blogspot.com/2010/06/alan-summers-three-questions.html

Per Diem

The Haiku Foundation Per Diem May 2020 curated by Paul David Mena wine and song theme:

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/per-diem-archive-details/?IDcat=223

descriptive post:

https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2020/05/01/per-diem-for-may-2020-wine-and-song/

Cornell University, Mann Library, U.S.A. "Daily Haiku" poet (March 2013)

https://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/alan-summers/page/26/ 

Anthology credits: Haiku Friends vol. 1 ed. Masaharu Hirata (Osaka, Japan, 2003);  City: Bristol Today in Poems and Pictures, Paralaia (2004); naad anunaad: an anthology of contemporary international haiku ed. Shloka Shankar Sanjuktaa Asopa, Kala Ramesh, India, 2016 (Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards, Best Anthology [tie] 2017)

Television, newspaper, magazine and other media credits: 

BBC 1 - Regional arts feature  (British Broadcasting Television, November 2003); Seven magazine feature: “Three lines of simple beauty” (2006); Bristol Evening Post article (2002); BroadcastLab, ArtsWork Bath Spa University (Haiku Poet-in-residence 2006 - 2007); THFhaiku app for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch (2011)

Art Exhibition Credits:

Floating World Japanese Festival 

Joint exhibition with linocut artist Trevor Haddrell (Bristol Floating Harbour, September 2003)

East meets West 

The Art Gym - Hengrove Community Arts College 

linocuts with Trevor Haddrell (November 2003)

The Haiku Experience  - Alan Summers & Karen Hoy

Totterdown Art Trail (Bristol, November 2003 also partly filmed by BBC TV of the U.K.) 

naad anunaad: an anthology of contemporary international haiku ed. Shloka Shankar Sanjuktaa Asopa, Kala Ramesh (India, 2016): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Naad-Anunaad-Kala-Ramesh/dp/9385665332/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1481812868&sr=8-1&keywords=naad+anunaad 

https://www.amazon.com/Naad-Anunaad-Kala-Ramesh/dp/9385665332/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1490600603&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Naad+haiku

quartier de citron vert

un cube de glace s'affaisse

sur fond de jazz

French translation by Serge Tome

Fifth Day: Haiku poetry showcase by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA

A month of haiku poems by Alan Summers at Cornell University USA


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blue wave brushstroke©Alan Summers

down side streets -
gulls turning the sky
in and out

Alan Summers

Publication credits:
Presence 10 (1999); The New Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002)

Award Credit: haiku presence webpage Editor's Choice 5

Daily Haiku series created by Tom Clausen
http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/ 

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