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millenials

Uther Dean on haiku and jokes and flouting the rules

3 November 2019 by Uther Dean

Uther Dean responds to the essay we published last week, in which Sandra Simpson expressed her frustration at people who misunderstood and disrespected haiku. When I was writing haiku there were two kinds of people who liked to tell me I wasn’t writing haiku. The first were early millennial or late Gen X white men … Read more

Categories Books, Featured Tags haiku, jokes, millenials, Poetry, Uther Dean

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