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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.
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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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Whether from the literary rules of a haiku or the development of ferns, constraint can be a generator of form.—
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This haiku by Japanese poet Bashō perfectly sums up the experience of first seeing Matsushima Bay: abject awe.—
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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.—
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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.—
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Holmes’ feed is a babbling stream of self-help epigrams, ankle-deep reflections and many, many photos of herself.—
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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.—
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Some have suggested that the Bard had romantic liaisons with men, in part implied by sonnets that are charged with homoerotic elements.—
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By James Folta | July 17, 2025 Is Brad Lander’s original Shakespeare in the Park sonnet any good?—
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Each episode features an in-depth interview with a fiction, non-fiction, essay, or poetry writer.—
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Her debut poetry collection is forthcoming with House of Anansi in April 2027 and her book of co-translated poems JAWS by Xitlalitl Rodríguez Mendoza is forthcoming with Cardboard House Press in April 2026.—
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“Senryu.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/senryu. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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