Longhouse Publishers has just published, “FLANEUR” (1 & 2), 2024, by Donna Fleischer, a selection of 25 haibun, “mostly new, in two A4 tall, two-sided, double foldout bus tickets with pictures, wrapped in gold-flecked envelope.”
Fleischer is a longtime poet and contributor to this blog.
Below are four samples of haibun from the book, selected by Fleischer:
Just Enough
The river trail is flush with wild rose bushes. Flanked by them, their just enough scent, pale whites and pinks, kimonos slightly open
the folds
of the geisha’s robe
wild roses
Slow, Silver Station Wagon
As I blog these days, I look for my mother in cyberspace, abstract, remote, intimate as death. She left many years ago, the slow, silver station wagon hurrying her away somewhere
October’s gold-filled air
and overhead Giotto’s blue
an infant joy
A Jar
Insect in a jar, metal holes gouged in a blue sky and a few sprigs of torn grass . . .
glass tower
reflecting the many
deaths of childhood
Trail Through Winter
The storm had dropped 15 inches of snow on the mountain. Snow shoeing along the base, kneecap bruise on a trap rock boulder, and nostrils sting. The sun shows through a stray pine’s needles, seeing Van Gogh’s yellow marks in the sky til the sudden drawn down sun is gone. Return to a dark, cold house, red candle wax, and a turntable needle on Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone”
warm milk
pad of butter
time for supper
• To Order: Available for online purchase from Longhouse Publishers, Green River, VT.
About Charlotte Digregorio
I publish books. I have marketed and/or published 55 titles. These books are sold in 46 countries to bookstores, libraries, universities, professional organizations, government agencies, and book clubs. In 2018, I was honored by the Governor of Illinois for my thirty-eight years of accomplishments in the literary arts, and my work to promote and advance the field by educating adults and students alike. I am the author of seven books including: Haiku and Senryu: A Simple Guide for All; Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Homes; You Can Be A Columnist; Beginners' Guide to Writing & Selling Quality Features; Your Original Personal Ad; and my latest, Ripples of Air: Poems of Healing.
The first four books have been adopted as supplemental texts at universities throughout the U.S., Canada, India, Pakistan, and Catalonia. They are sold in 43 countries, and are displayed in major metropolitan cultural centers. These books have been reviewed, recommended, and praised by hundreds of critics, librarians, and professors worldwide.
I am also the author of a poetry collection: "Shadows of Seasons: Selected Haiku and Senryu by Charlotte Digregorio." Two of my books have been Featured Selections of Writer's Digest Book Club. I am regularly interviewed by major print, radio, and television organizations throughout the U.S. I regularly sign books at libraries, chain bookstores, and university bookstores, and do poetry readings at art centers, cafes, tea houses, and galleries.
I was recently nominated for two Pushcart Prizes in poetry. I have won fifty-nine poetry awards, writing fourteen poetic forms. My poetry has been translated into eight languages. I do illustrated solo poetry exhibits 365 days a year in libraries, galleries, corporate buildings, hospitals, convention centers, and other venues. My individual poems have been displayed at supermarkets, apparel and wine shops, banks, botanic gardens, restaurants, and on public transit.
I have been nominated and listed in "The International Authors and Writers Who's Who" in Cambridge, England and in the "Who's Who In Writers, Editors & Poets U.S./Canada." I hosted my own radio program, "Poetry Beat," on public broadcasting. My poetry has been featured on several library web sites including those of Shreve Memorial Library in Louisiana and Cornell University's Mann Library.
My background includes positions as a feature editor and columnist at daily newspapers and as a magazine editor. I have been a public relations director for a non-profit organization. I am self-employed as a public relations/marketing consultant, having served a total of 118 clients in 23 states for the past several decades .
In other professional areas, I have been on university faculties, teaching French, Italian, and Writing.
I regularly give lectures and workshops on publishing, journalism, publicity, poetry, and creativity to business and professional groups, and at writer's conferences, universities, literary festivals, non-profit organizations, and libraries. I have been a writer-in-residence at universities.
There have been about 400 articles written about me in the media. I have served on the Boards of writers and publishers organizations. My positions have included Board Secretary of the Northwest Association of Book Publishers. I served for five years as Midwest Regional Coordinator of The Haiku Society of America, and for two years as its Second Vice President.
Charlotte Digregorio's Writer's Blog 
Great to see and read these samples… thank you Charlotte and Donna!
Thanks for commenting, Tom. Have a good holiday weekend.
Tom, how great to find you here, thanks to (hi, Charlotte)! Here’s a short poem written about a week ago, offered here for both of you:
grav-i-ty
the way earth holds all of us
to-geth-er
everywhere all at once
with love & peace,
Donna
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Thank you.