senryu

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Recent Examples of senryu The construction is the same -- three lines, 17 syllables, with five syllables in the first line, seven syllables in the second line and five syllables on the third line -- but the tone and subject matter of a senryu is different. Mary Colurso | McOlurso@al.com, al, 19 Nov. 2020 The event is open to anyone interested in learning about the modern haiku, senryu and haibun types of poetry, focusing on contemporary free verse forms, not the familiar five-seven-five-syllable structure. Carole Goldberg, courant.com, 7 Aug. 2019
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Noun
  • This haiku by Japanese poet Bashō perfectly sums up the experience of first seeing Matsushima Bay: abject awe.
    Zoe Baillargeon, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2025
  • Use it to simplify, not just amplify Ask AI to explain complex concepts in plain English, like in the style of a tweet, a haiku, or for a 12-year-old.
    William Arruda, Forbes.com, 11 May 2025
Noun
  • Each photo is combined with a tanka (a five-line, 31-syllable poem) written through the lens of a 10-year-old girl encountering the Jews for the first time, composed by poet Hiroko Yamagata.
    Josh Hasten, Sun Sentinel, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Her third and most critically acclaimed film, Forever a Woman (1955), is a tender, yearning portrait of a tanka poet with breast cancer and one of the first films anywhere to show a mastectomy.
    Lisa Wong Macabasco, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • That celebrated epigram is delivered by the character of Octave, who is the greatest creation of Renoir’s career—not least because he’s played by Renoir in a performance that’s essentially a self-portrait, even an onscreen self-creation.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 30 July 2025
  • It’s been codified as myths, proverbs, clichés, epigrams, parables; the skeleton of every great story.
    Jann E. Freed, Forbes.com, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • When women and men speaking Cervantes’ tongue are sent to concentration camps like the South Florida Detention Facility or CECOT, then what use is a sonnet?
    Ed Simon September 22, Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
  • To the west, the London Eye pirouettes above the skyline—to the east, Shakespeare’s Globe serves legendary sonnets.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Of course Swift’s legion of devotees would scoff at the notion that their heroine was anything but a pop goddess, their very own Glinda the Good Witch sent to comfort with lyrical poetry and aid crumpled hearts.
    Bryan West, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Verbatim Reginald Dwayne Betts A 2012 essay from the American Poetry Review on poetry and the architecture of anger.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025

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