It’s the anniversary today (born 1763) of the birth of the great Japanese haiku poet, Issa
For more of Allen-on-haiku – see here and here – and here
For Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche‘s informative insights on haiku – see here
For Allen’s Mostly Sitting Haiku – see here
For some of Jack Kerouac‘s haiku – see here
Happy Birthday Issa!
Beat Attitude, Annalisa Marí Pegrum and Sébastien Gavigne’s bilingual anthology of women Beat Generation writers, first published in Spain in 2015. has been reprinted in a French edition by Editions Bruno Doucey. For more information – see here
Allen in Norwegian? – twenty-six years on from the publication of Olav Angell and Jón Sveinbjørn Jónsson’s I hjertet av malstrømmen, Allen, Geir Vasted argues, (in an article no longer on line) continues to be pertinent and relevant.