Haiku You Ku

real palm sunday

2009-04-12T14:59:00.002-05:00

"easter" haiku why
waste of time no one reads you
ku anymore now

snow mobiles

2008-11-07T00:24:00.001-06:00

so now that sarah
sings sonnets to alaskan
dawns praise snow machines

Hi. I've been listening to a lot of metal.

2008-07-10T14:23:00.001-05:00

At my desk, both feet
beating out fifteen eighths,
certifying loans.

The Other You Ku

2008-06-15T18:20:00.001-05:00

Google searches for
"you ku" lead them here; but we're
not Chinese YouTube.

atman

2008-03-02T04:22:00.001-06:00

when all is silent
i awake and ask myself
is the world still there?

2008-02-04T19:42:00.000-06:00

Woke up in New York,
fell asleep in Chicago,
more dreams of L.A.

Columbia College Chicago Beautifies Neighborhood Subway with Harrison Haiku

2008-01-23T17:08:00.000-06:00

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Micki Leventhal 312-344-7383

January 23, 2008

Columbia College Chicago Beautifies Neighborhood Subway with Harrison Haiku
Art Installation Contributes to CTA Adopt-A-Station Program with Text & Graphics

Opening Celebration January 30

CHICAGO, IL -- Moments of awe, radiance and sudden insight in the midst of everyday life, captured in 17 syllables, are the essence of Haiku, Japanese minimalist poetry. A graphic art installation of Haiku, written by poetry students from Columbia College Chicago and Jones College Prep, will be unveiled in a community celebration in and around the Harrison Street Red Line subway station on Wednesday, January 30. The event takes place at 10:30 a.m. and will feature poetry readings and music, as well as comments by Columbia President Warrick L. Carter, Ph.D., Jones Prep Principal Donald Fraynd, Ph.D., Second Ward Alderman Robert Fioretti and a representative from the CTA.

“The spare beauty of the Haiku form paired with the colorful graphics will be a wonderful ‘awakening’ for the South Loop residents and workers, as well as the thousands of Columbia and Jones students, faculty and staff who use the Harrison subway each day,” says Kenneth Daley, chair of the English Department at Columbia, which offers both undergraduate and Master of Fine Arts degrees in Poetry.

Haiku will be read by Columbia MFA/Poetry students Nicole Wilson and Kate Brady, Columbia MFA/Poetry alumni John Franklin Dandridge and Jones students Nat Iosbaker (senior) and Erayna Wright (freshman). Jaman Dunn, first violinist and concert master for the Jones orchestra, will perform a violin piece and a short percussion performance will be provided by members of the Chicago Dragons Athletic Association.

The Harrison Haiku project was conceived as both a means to showcase the creative product of Columbia Poetry students and to contribute to the community. After getting approval from the CTA to adopt the Harrison station, the school’s Office of Campus Environment held a competition with Interior Architecture students to design the physical installation. Through workshops conducted by Poetry faculty and students and teaching artists from Columbia’s Center for Community Arts Partnerships, original Haiku were created by college students from Columbia and high school students from Jones.

Installation of artwork in the mezzanine, escalator/stair and platform levels will begin in January and will be staged over the upcoming months.

The Harrison Haiku art installation is another example of Columbia College Chicago’s innovative efforts to create a vibrant and welcoming environment in the South Loop,” says Alicia Berg, Columbia’s vice president of campus environment. “It will join the public art we have already installed on previously blank building facades and storefronts so that our campus better reflects the creative spirit of our institution. We are thrilled to be able to contribute Harrison Haiku as a beautiful and educational resource for the community.”

r/x mantra

2007-12-19T02:26:00.000-06:00

looking from windows
speaking behind the blue mask
what is it we fear

Something for David Yow (I'm becoming a feminist)

2007-11-16T14:23:00.000-06:00

Fighting fascistic
freedom for feminism
so fuck you too Juan

Stranger Than (A Philosophically BAD Movie)

2007-11-04T14:25:00.000-06:00

No, just like fiction.
Hollywood wins narrative
tug of war, hands down.

band x's third album crescendo dilemma

2007-09-30T22:04:00.000-05:00

how many more times
and how many different ways
can we go for it?

A Death Wish Is Forever

2007-08-18T11:45:00.001-05:00

Four paparazzi
princesses crash hard in a
diamond SUV

bye derr

2007-07-29T14:14:00.000-05:00

push has come to shove
mike, but not before one more
party over here

the angel of the board

2007-06-19T03:05:00.000-05:00

the darts snap too fast
from our man to win, but when
he turned 21. . . .

Domestic Fable #84

2007-06-17T20:00:00.001-05:00

Contessa's scared of
the new fan. I'll come home to
find it still, mangled.

you can't make this up

2007-05-24T16:46:00.000-05:00

"i've got confidence
in al gonzalez doin'
the job"--gwb

almost as good as ours

2007-05-18T17:47:00.000-05:00

hotchickswithdouchebags.com

Old friend, Cro Bagnon,
Your douche Kingdom hath no end,
'Bag Superhero.

Duke Nukem Douchebag
It's time to Bleeth and chew gum
I'm all out of gum.

-- danny bonnadouchey

Fire giver too strong
Cro Bagnon Burnt Angry GRRR
women need help bagnon.

-- SkanderDouche

'The Rock' eyebow douche
unbuttons his shirt four down.
Need towel for face grease.

-- Grigori Rasdouchin

no fake 'n bake, that.
mandana usurped by gel.
love your geico ads.

-- douche of earl

What in the

2007-05-08T23:36:00.000-05:00

It is sometimes called
La-La Land but also known
fondly as Hell-A.

post 900

2007-05-05T10:18:00.000-05:00

calzones, bechamel
marxist mind control potions
in every loaf

Pet Story

2007-04-30T13:59:00.000-05:00

Dog's grown a grey beard.
Still barks at thunder, sirens
raise sympathy howls.

2007-04-21T23:07:00.000-05:00

Along the coastline
birds soar on the offshore breeze.
Clouds gather inland.

overheard on state street

2007-04-03T16:13:00.001-05:00

"my life is a mess
someone else made i'm trying
to clean up for good"

2007-03-31T01:04:00.001-05:00

maintain myriad
flirtations. you're great. you should
shine against the dull

2007-03-29T00:01:00.001-05:00

all the craziness
desire brings, the crude pleasures
the depravities

olds

2007-03-28T09:25:00.000-05:00

competition is
fierce dans le monde de moustache
is that a three-tier?

wall street journal haiku

2007-03-25T23:34:00.000-05:00

Rise in Downloading
Fails to Boost Industry; A
Retailing Shakeout

For Demetri

2007-03-24T15:34:00.000-05:00

Both: admirable.
But democracies evolve,
"move on" (as they say).

I'm gonna need some more testosterone.

2007-03-22T15:28:00.000-05:00

I bet this guy thinks

we're a bunch of amateurs.

Time to prove him wrong!

How To Be A Bizbot: CFO Conference

2007-03-22T14:45:00.000-05:00

don't shower; inside
out underwear; fart; bleed from
fresh scrape on keyboard

Office mate: big creep

2007-03-22T10:46:00.000-05:00

East coast, old money
Dartmouth, UVA, Sidley
Let me touch your boobs??

political haiku of the day #2

2007-03-22T10:09:00.000-05:00

steve, you called it. you've
probably seen this; this guy
says why he did it

four years long

2007-03-22T08:12:00.000-05:00

what if they rise up
in strength and go stop, enough
the length alone sucks?

Action photo!

2007-03-20T12:58:00.000-05:00

Can someone explain

exactly what's HAPPONING

in this photograph??

Whatever, we're grown-ups.

2007-03-20T12:52:00.000-05:00

Would we act this way

if we had not been drinking?

Oh ya... probably.

Mob Mentality

2007-03-20T12:36:00.000-05:00

have your fun, dear jerks
but remember i am an
APEX PREDATOR!!!!!!!

Atomically and Mathematically but not nowadays

2007-03-20T12:25:00.000-05:00

We are black swans who
sing broken songs tripling
nine notes in coda

r.i.p. haiku baby?

2007-03-18T10:52:00.000-05:00

teary commencement
ceremony, moustaches
on bottles, ollie

the museum of online museums

2007-03-02T10:52:00.000-06:00

the vintage hi-fi
brochure gallery? grocery
list collections? fun

Net neutrality

2007-02-24T13:40:00.000-06:00

call your senator
or your congressperson now,
or no more haikus.

$1 on scorcese

2007-02-20T12:41:00.000-06:00

anyone up for
an academy awards
pool party sunday?

Super furry photographers

2007-02-19T22:01:00.000-06:00

Such concentration.
Penguin must be posing the
perfect penguin pose.

solid gold baby

2007-02-09T14:35:00.000-06:00

never ever will
i need to search for kitty
images again

You gotta try eeeeet!

2007-02-02T12:03:00.000-06:00

Go here, let meaning
be eaten; our blog becomes
Haiti Youngsters Ku.

I Forgot to Write Haiku for a While

2007-01-31T16:46:00.000-06:00

DayQuil. DayQuil. Ooh,
pleasant tingle! DayQuil's like
la la la la la.

long weekend

2007-01-29T17:08:00.001-06:00

grammar school failed to
convey the gravity of
a missed period

2007-01-26T22:59:00.000-06:00

A smile betrayed me
Before I could stop myself
A new commitment

They Made Me Do It

2007-01-25T17:40:00.000-06:00

Sorry, everyone--
Google allowed just one last
look at my dashboard.

2007-01-22T22:07:00.000-06:00

Life burns within us.
One day all will be ashes.
Didn't you know this?

A manual mashup for a modern lesson on an old, old theme

2007-01-22T19:49:00.000-06:00

Instructions: turn on
Mogwai's "Auto Rock" - watch the
expansion of gods.

2007-01-22T11:59:00.000-06:00

i'm really sorry
to follow nice images
with scat humor, but ---> !

Mary's 60th Birthday

2007-01-21T00:35:00.000-06:00

Everybody came.
Yum. Flourless chocolate cake.
I must be dreaming.

2007-01-21T00:30:00.000-06:00

Leaves filtering light
Shadow falling in fragments.
Code, rain, a film noir.

the reception variations

2007-01-19T11:32:00.000-06:00

authenticity,
credibility collapse
under backlash snaps

2007-01-16T23:21:00.000-06:00

drinking and starving
falling and bouncing up and
never despairing

Technically Correct

2007-01-15T12:13:00.000-06:00

My pc instructs
this choice of words when parting:
saving your settings.

Our Summer Walk

2007-01-15T12:03:00.000-06:00

Our summer walk
A sunlit field of flowers
I count your freckles

2007-01-13T12:34:00.000-06:00

this would be a lot
funnier were she into
samberg, not j. t.

4 Thank You Ku

2007-01-12T19:18:00.000-06:00

Bathroom Thank You

Thank you for leaving
your empty Tecate can
on the shower ledge.

Kitchen Thank You

Thank you for brownies
with dark edges against the
square glass pan—delish.

Basement Thank You

Thank you for always
having extra quarters so
the laundry’s bone-dry.

Bedroom Thank You

I’m sick in bed; your
friend is over but still you
made me that sandwich.

on mistakes, responsibility, etc.

2007-01-12T08:05:00.000-06:00

principle again
trumps practicality- an
imperfect practice

snob haiku

2007-01-09T20:01:00.000-06:00

sophisticated,
infinitesimally
accomodating

Bad Highdeas: January Edition

2007-01-09T08:16:00.000-06:00

air ducts down below
let's spray paint in the basement
poison the tenants

Memories of Roscoe, A Very Good Dog, May He Rest in Peace

2007-01-07T18:32:00.000-06:00

UJ said: "Roscoe
prefers small babies second
only to rump roast."

2007-01-07T17:02:00.000-06:00

square squires sputter, spy
the children laughing, leaping
lording it loudly

record setting blues

2007-01-03T19:51:00.000-06:00

joy made me a scarf
global warming won't let me
bask in wintry love

open book exam

2006-12-30T13:17:00.000-06:00

failing my midterms
i came with all the answers
not the right questions

your future self

2006-12-29T21:43:00.000-06:00

hello demetri
sunday there will be football
and there will be snacks

jesus and santa
put a horsehead in your bed
not our idea

love,
the gang

Mom, What's the Name of the Story You're About to Tell?

2006-12-24T16:43:00.000-06:00

Jessie Mourning Max
And Not Sure If She Should Give
Her Heart to Freddy*.

*Freddy = Jenny, Jen-Jen Buttafuoco, former Klaver family cat now buried in the backyard in a rollerblade box.

2006-12-22T23:48:00.000-06:00

I saw the li-ight.
There's sighing in the kitchen,
hail on the solstice.

you ku style copped, again

2006-12-19T11:25:00.000-06:00

albums of the year?
"my dick in a box" alone's
better than any

2006-12-18T00:03:00.000-06:00

souled-thru harmonics
bob dylan's hair in curlers
more than this is yours

corral room bathroom graffiti haiku

2006-12-17T10:43:00.000-06:00

on the count of 3
everybody run back
to your fantasy

trust the garbage in the streets

2006-12-13T00:58:00.000-06:00

find traffic and hate
mail. two temporals don't make
one vaccination.

panicky dirty liberal snow huggers

2006-12-11T23:51:00.000-06:00

the place to retire?
there is no scientific
evidence at all!

the tender hipsters

2006-12-10T10:06:00.000-06:00

sitting butt-level . . .
when i'm legal i won't drink
at underage shows

we're all cool around here

2006-12-08T15:18:00.000-06:00

should i call the cops
or the landlord when the dumb
fuck downstairs pounds drums?

c.i.a. ca. 2002

2006-12-07T23:13:00.000-06:00

train like vain things. a
bedouin sank a savior
sailing south. j.c.

assume the signs made sense

2006-12-07T18:50:00.000-06:00

When I crash land on
the moon I'll have allied rocks
who are all small shares

2006-12-07T16:03:00.000-06:00

the orange concierge
led the lemon ladies late
to the blueball room

stuck at the urinal

2006-12-06T23:16:00.000-06:00

everlastingly
forever eternally
struggling to pee

yupster

2006-12-03T16:12:00.000-06:00

death cab to rehab
desperate to unlearn life from
leftover hippies

2006-12-02T12:08:00.000-06:00

from THANKSGIVING HAIKU

Mary K’s Blogger Profile

That’s how I found out

I was a Year of the Dog

not Year of the Ram.

Medical Observation

Your mom always says

prophylactic instead of

preventative, yo.

Mr. Wu

He can find the pinched

nerves, and then charges twenty

bucks an area.

Uncle John Gets Meta

The haiku master

was born to total greatness:

seventeen fingers.

2006-11-26T13:38:00.000-06:00

Two year old nephew,
when throwing paper airplane,
declares, "that one blows."

Happy Birthday, Haiku Baby

2006-11-23T12:08:00.000-06:00

Hopefully blogs are
like restaurants and we've passed
the ol' one-year test.

On Tom Arnold's The Kid & I (Rent it!)

2006-11-21T22:06:00.000-06:00

You know you're in for
a wild ride when the movie
starts with Plot Point 2.

Hello, Haiku! (for Greg)

2006-11-19T20:54:00.000-06:00

public static void
main String args System dot out
dot print line: haiku

the angel came for the show

2006-11-18T11:42:00.000-06:00

he succeeded by
sucking seed, know what i mean?
dirty jokes, oh yeah

er

2006-11-16T01:45:00.000-06:00

onslaught of laughter
great bye nepotism good
night time decider

things i learned at work

2006-11-15T20:50:00.000-06:00

meetings are pow-wows
outstanding's no longer great
malls are so eighties

paraphrasing louise bogan

2006-11-12T11:32:00.000-06:00

you will be again
as normal, selfish, heartless
as anyone else

On aesthetics

2006-11-11T22:27:00.000-06:00

That's a nice picture
because of the colors, not
because of my face.

Relationship capital

2006-11-11T21:56:00.000-06:00

Spilled my second beer,
how do you still look so good,
when it's all been spent?

2006-11-11T09:11:00.000-06:00

tramp stamped divorcee
your superiority
has diminished me

Para Nashville: Con Besos, Chicago

2006-11-10T21:01:00.000-06:00

Life gives you lemons
and you make salisbury steak
pizza, like Jesus.

this thursday i am the new age sister

2006-11-09T22:19:00.000-06:00

Mercury couldn't just
go retrograde but had to
slice across the sun

alright, i'll take thursday too

2006-11-09T22:06:00.000-06:00

let's play a dinner
game called: what's more depressing
than salisbury steak?

grandma naps, then grandpa naps

2006-11-08T17:39:00.000-06:00

and when he lays down
she says, i guess we'll just eat
dinner tomorrow.

spread it out. the leaves are gone.

2006-11-07T20:15:00.000-06:00

Nuerological
disorder characterized
by painful headaches

staring like something's wrong

2006-11-07T20:11:00.000-06:00

A lengthy span of
time from the dawn of complex
life too natural.

Benefits of Being a Poetry Editor

2006-11-07T12:30:00.000-06:00

Berman’s postcard—bought
in Scotland, sent from Nashville—
says try in ’08.

against the day

2006-11-06T19:00:00.000-06:00

early word for t.
pynchon's latest is surprise
it is mind blowing