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Barbara Sabol Photo: hmr The haiku in Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku blend a distinctly city-savvy content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. A true son of haiku lineage, George’s haiku are sensory-bound sketches, alive with the sounds, smells, textures and colors of the city as a unique phenomenon in the natural world. […]

Debra Fox It is Barry George’s palpable regard for the cast of characters who inhabit the urban landscape in his haiku collection, Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku, that makes it so powerful. Whether he is describing a conductor, a window washer, an accused teen, or a homeless man, George suggests they are all deserving […]

Interview with Barry George by Barbara Sabol Barry George’s haiku have been distinguished through numerous publications and awards. Wrecking Ball and Other Urban Haiku, to be released April 1, 2010 by Accents Publishing, is his first collection of haiku. George’s haiku blend a distinctly urban content with the nature-oriented perspective of traditional haiku. A true […]

Changming Yuan Photo: Mira Dimova Orchid: Deep in the valley Alone on an obscure spot You bloom none the less Lotus: From foul decayed silt You shoot clean against the sun Never pollutable Mum: Hanging on and on Even when wishes wither You keep flowering Plum: Your brave bold blood dropped As though to melt […]

Barry George Photo: The Wandering Angel cold train station – I’m bundled up like FDR at Yalta

Petar Tchouhov Photo: bcmom * * * пълнолуние още една топка за снежния човек full moon one more ball for the snowman