Join us for the last Virgilio of the year! On November 12th 7PM EST, we welcome you back to The Virgilio Haiku Open Mic event!
This month, we celebrate modern haiku’s reach with our features John Stevensoon BJ Swartz. And of course, we also celebrate all your own haiku/senryu/tanka and short form poetry as well!
THE VIRGILIO IS A FREE EVENT, BUT DONATIONS ARE WELCOME!
5 MINS PER READER.
PLEASE REGISTER TO READ AND TO RECEIVE THE ZOOM LINK FOR THE EVENT.
Our September features include:
John Stevenson is a former president of the Haiku Society of America, former editor of Frogpond and currently, since 2008, the managing editor of The Heron’s Nest. He was an honorary curator of the America Haiku Archive in 2018-19.
His most recent book – emoji moon. It can be purchased from Red Moon Press.
BJ Swartz, a retired science and medical librarian, has been writing since elementary school in Haddonfield, NJ. Her first published poem, "Mystery in the Swamp", appeared in a 1966 issue of "The Hornbook", the Douglass College literary magazine. Thirty years later "Ode to My Gall Bladder", her excuse for missing a writing class, was published in "Stitches: The Journal of Medical Humor". In 2004 she discovered haiku and began recording her observations on topics such as human nature, spirituality, string theory, and popcorn. When she was diagnosed with cancer several years ago, she took the opportunity to attack it in writing, with optimism and a slightly twisted sense of humor.