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Skip these introductory paragraphs if you just want to read a bunch of 'new' haiQu because they are confusing. I'm writing them, and I'm not sure what I'm describing.
The platform that hosts this blog, Ghost, is federated. This means every post published appears on our Fediverse timeline. But, confusingly, Ghost also has a feature that allows us to also post Notes to our fediverse timeline. When people who are on the fediverse follow us, or even just find and read our feed, they see all of our Posts and all of our Notes.
But, while Posts are also visible to anyone on the web, including search engines, Notes are only visible on our feed through a fediverse client. Without understanding this difference, I've been posting some haiQu as posts, and some as Notes. I didn't realize that Notes were not visible outside the fediverse, so I am now going to re-publish Notes haiQu as Posts, so they become visible to the world outside the fediverse.
Because there are a lot of Notes, it'll be too bothersome to post them individually, so I'm putting them in a series of posts tagged backlog.
What I'm describing are some of the aspects of the Fediverse that prevent a lot of people from wanting to participate. It is a technically confusing place.
techno-feudal underclass
visual elevator music
the gift of insanity
conditions for breathing
adversarial poetry
kitsch regurgitations
circular error vision
“100% milk from real cows”
a kmart dystopia
hopepunky
manipulative dissemblement
isn’t a death cult
lower value human
anti-carnivore agenda
non-fungible haiku
conditions for breathing
adversarial poetry
kitsch regurgitations
techno-feudal underclass
visual elevator music
the gift of insanity
pervert glasses
reverse pyramid scheme
udder bullshit
billionaire space trash
Luigi ex machina
the perils of doors
lurvable candidates
self-defeating nihilism
appeasing cis people
cross on the moon
conservative lolcows
'Cat, I've farted'
ironic sorcery
practicing illegality
there is no planet B
unhinged folktronica
annihilation laboratory
fiery antitheist
it is pronounced, "Hi, Koo," just the same as haiku
it is pronounced "Hi Queue"
Left Coast Right Watch (LCRW) is an investigative journalism outlet dedicated to covering politics and extremism.
Voert Digitial champions Sound Art,the Avant-garde, photography, along with experimental music and art.
Visit the other kewl sites on our blogroll.
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.