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UbuWeb, which we've just added to our blogroll, is an incredible archive, resource, and service. This is from their site description:
UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts
Here are the categories listed on the home page:
- Film & Video
- Sound
- Dance
- Papers
- Historical
- Visual Poetry
- Conceptual Comics
- Conceptual Writing
- Contemporary
- Aspen Magazine
- Outsiders
- /ubu Editions
- 365 Days Project
- Ethnopoetics
- Electronic Music Resources
UbuWeb is a top contender for my desert island website list.
haiQu is:
- bad haiku
- experimental writing
- senryū
- micro-poetry
- flarf
- protest poetry
- algorithmic sabotage
- antifa
- wabi sabi
- dada
- surrealism
- a way of life
- fun to write
If you are interested in any of the above, I hope you'll join the movement. One of my dreams is to get enough people involved that we can form a Renga group and make collaborative haiQu.
Here is an Introduction to haiQu, and here's a slightly longer description, How to Write haiQu.
I am also writing haiQu in the following forms: haiga; haibun. I guess these will be called haiQa and haiQun...
Matthew Muñoz's site features an extreme minimalist design, which is perfectly suited to his experimental writing and art, which is also minimalist. I see no About page, no Bio, no nothing, but a simple text list with four categories:
- advice
- poems &c
- links
- things i used to believe
Above that is a single poem (which is also a link):
When Raven slickly machinates,
that jackanapsing maven’s tricks
on cravens quickly hackles raise,
and cackles praise his razor wit.
The section "poems &c" (& content?) contains links to individual works from 2021-2025. I love that many of the works include no explanation, or contextual information, just writing or art. The site serves as a cohesive collection with a beautifully simple presentation.
New addition to our blogroll:
"Welcome to The Sciku Project – the latest scientific and mathematical discoveries, thoughts and ideas as scientific haiku."
example:
a deep understanding
of the chemistry of ice
cracks in our matrix
by John Hawkhead
5 - 7 - 5, whether in haiQu or haiku or senryu, has never been a rule. it began as a misunderstanding and most contemporary haiku poets know this.
still, in order to be recognizable as a relative of haiku, most haiQu follows the common form of:
short line to open
longer line in the middle
short line to finish
but i have, on occasion, also used:
longer line to open
shorter line
longer line to finish
exceptions and variations are allowed, as long as they don't result in poems that have an absence of similarities to haiku
why is there no paradox for antonym?