Author: Frank J. Tassone

  • Originally posted on Puget Lines and Edges: #Haiku Happenings #8: Dave Kuhlmann’s latest #haiga! Puget Lines and Edges View original post

  • Haiku: Song of Life

    #Haiku Happenings #7: Xenia Tran’s latest haiku!

  • #Throwdown Thursday (3/1/18): my latest #haibun—An Unimportant Failure – is up on .@ImageCurve

    Happy that my latest #haibun is up on .@ImageCurve today! An Unimportant Failure BY FRANK J. TASSONE · 1ST MARCH 2018 Nothing worth remembering. That fifth period class—where Moesha braided Katherine’s hair, Neina screamed; and Chastery, Jowayne and Zaire did no work—fades to insignificance. No homes called, no repercussions planned—only the slightest sense that my…

  • Butterfly Dream

    Originally posted on Project words: Delighted to appear in English and Chinese on Neverending Story today spring thaw shards of sunlight shatter the pond Shamrock, 30, February 2015 Rachel Sutcliffe ? ? https://neverendingstoryhaikutanka.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/butterfly-dream-spring-thaw-haiku-by.html?m=1

  • On Jeff Streeby’s haibun book Wile

    Originally posted on Bill Waters ~~ Haiku: Jeff Streeby, Wile: Sketches from Nature, Great Falls, MT: Buttonhole Press, 2017, 48pp. Suggested donation: $15 for limited print edition. Free e-book also available. Both can be obtained at Jeff Streeby’s Website. Wile, a collection of haibun by poet Jeff Streeby, contains 27 short pieces that run a…

  • Failed Haiku, issue 27. Four poems and an haiga.

    Originally posted on Vento del giorno: Photo by Lorena Campiotti © full of the moon – reflected in the mirror an empty bed *** snow in the air – the shadows of words between us *** burnt dinner – the wisps of smoke from a candle also published on Haikuniverse, Februari 10, 2018 *** my…

  • #Publication Alert: Haibun Today: A Haibun & Tanka Prose Journal

    Happy to again appear in Haibun Today 12:1 March 2018! Thank you, Ray Rasmussen! Frank J. Tassone Montebello, New York, USA Breathless Vanity Mom never left the house without looking immaculate. She would put on makeup, style her hair, and wear the best outfit just to pick up a carton of cigarettes. Even when I…

  • Haiku windows edited by Katherine Munro: office window.

    Originally posted on Il fiume scorre ancora: Happy to appear once again in Haiku windows edited by Katherine Munro.  Theme: office window. office window the endless journey of snowflakes Eufemia Griffo https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/2018/02/28/haiku-windows-office-window/