{"id":10218,"date":"2016-03-02T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T09:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=10218"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:43:11","slug":"richard-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/richard-stevenson\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Departure Bay:<br \/>\ncumulo nimbi<br \/>\nwon\u2019t take a hint<\/p>\n<p>(Nanaimo, BC)<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Departure Bay \u2013<br \/>\nthe rooster tail trail<br \/>\nof a small speed boat<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Emily Carr House \u2013<br \/>\neven the bees wipe their feet<br \/>\nat each blossom porch<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>horse and buggy tour \u2013<br \/>\na satellite dish aimed<br \/>\nat your childhood home<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Emily, your brush<br \/>\ndips with the grace of this bee<br \/>\non each pendant bloom<\/p>\n<p>*<\/p>\n<p>Emily Carr House \u2013<br \/>\nI scan the strawberry patch<br \/>\nfor a ripe berry<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Richard Stevenson<\/strong> has 30 full-length and 10 chapbook publications to his credit, counting three forthcoming volumes: <em>Fruit Wedge Moon: Haiku, Senryu, Tanka, Kyoka, and Zappai<\/em> (Hidden Brook Press), <em>Rock, Scissors, Paper: The Clifford Olson Murders<\/em> (long poem sequence, Grey Borders Press), and <em>The Heiligen Effect: Selected Haikai Poems and Sequences<\/em> (Ekstasis Editions), which should all be out ion 2015 or 2016.\u00a0 He is recently retired after thirty years of teaching for Lethbridge College and six years teaching elsewhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * Departure Bay: cumulo nimbi won\u2019t take a hint (Nanaimo, BC) * Departure Bay \u2013 the rooster tail trail of a small speed boat * Emily Carr House \u2013 even the bees wipe their feet at each blossom porch * horse and buggy tour \u2013 a satellite dish aimed at your childhood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24017,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10218\/revisions\/24017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}