#Haiku Happenings #2: Miriam Sagan shares some street sign haiku by Alan Summers!
I learned about this from Bill Waters: Back in February B.C.V (before corona virus), Chippenham, U.K., had its very first Fringe Fest: three days of music, performance, dance, comedy, art, crafts, photography … and public poetry!
Dotting the town were a number of clever “street signs” — a collaboration between poet Alan Summers and artist Charlie Graham-May — guaranteed to make passersby look twice!
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Yes, the haiku or using haiku to develop short funny phrases, are by me, and the artwork and those photographs are by Charlie Graham-May.
It features my 1999 haiku:
down side streets–
gulls turning the sky
in and out
Alan Summers
Award Credit: Presence journal, Editor’s Choice 5
Publication credits: Presence 10 (1999)
Feature: seagull haiku blog collection ed. laryalee fraser (2006)
Anthology credits: The New Haiku (Snapshot Press, 2002); The Disjunctive Dragonfly, a New Approach to English-Language Haiku ed. Richard Gilbert (Red Moon Press 2012); Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years ed. Jim Kacian, Allan Burns & Philip Rowland foreword by Billy Collins (W. W. Norton & Company 2013); Journeys 2015, An Anthology of International Haibun ed. Dr. Angelee Deodhar
Street Sign/Visual Art Commission: Chippenham Fringe Festival (February 2020).
The book of the whole affair! 🙂
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Rag and Bone Arts (@RagandBoneArts) May 02, 2020
Frank J. Tassone-American Haijin by Frank J. Tassone is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Frank J. Tassone 
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