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almost black deepening purple ripe grapes Regarded as the father of contemporary haiku, Masaoka Shiki was a poet and literary critic during the Meiji period Japan. He advocated realistic observation by “sketching” (shasei) poems and going out into nature with notebooks, thus abandoning the traditional subjects of haiku of the time. His advice for an aspiring poet was, “Use both imaginary pictures...

rising sun and nothing else – misty sea! Inoue Shiro (1742-1812) was a doctor and poet from Nagoya. haiku by Inoue Shiro picture by Vlad Kostiuk

paperweights on the store’s comicbooks – spring breeze The author of the week is Takai Kito, a disciple of Yosa Buson. Despite becoming a professional haikai master in 1771, Kito remained one of Buson’s most trusted disciples until the death of the great master and was the de facto coordinator of Buson’s haikai group. haiku by Takai Kito picture by freestocks

sleeping, waking the emptiness of my mosquito net Chiyo-ni was born in the Ishikawa Prefecture in 1703. She began writing haiku poetry when she was 6, and her ability was soon recognized even though haiku by women were often dismissed and ignored at that time. Chiyo-ni was strongly influenced by Basho’s poetry (probably because her teachers were his students), but developed her own unique style. S...

DEADLINE: 9th December Poem by Andrea Cecon Picture by Oskar Karlin

Decided to go for the C chord, I believe it rules them all! Used a series of acoustic and electronic samples to fill the different layers, mixing string, winds, percussion, pianos and synths. More on this 191st Disquiet Junto project (“One chord to rule them all — on several instruments”) at: http://disquiet.com/2015/08/27/disquiet0191-heldchord/ More on the Disquiet Junto at: http://disquiet.com/...

Poem by Mav http://crp-nctm.tumblr.com Picture by Don https://www.flickr.com/photos/amarcord108/

Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman). Poem by Akif Kichloo http://akifkichloo.com Picture by Michael Yan https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicemic...

Radio Silence | Deadline 01.07.15 36,400,000. That is the expected number of intelligent civilizations in our galaxy, according to Drake’s famous equation. For the last 78 years, we had been broadcasting everything about us – our radio, our television, our history, our greatest discoveries – to the rest of the galaxy. We had been shouting our existence at the top of our lungs to the rest of the un...

Soundbook 011 | Deadline 03.06.15 Once upon a time there existed somewhere in the world, nobody knows where, a school which was called the Black School. There the pupils learned witchcraft and all sorts of ancient arts. Wherever this school was, it was somewhere below ground, and was held in a strong room which, as it had no window, was eternally dark and changeless. There was no teacher either, b...