The Poetry of Chiyo-Ni: The Life and Art of Japan's Most Celebrated Woman Haiku Master - Patricia Donegan

Patricia Donegan was a poet and translator. A professor of East-West poetics at Naropa University under Allen Ginsberg, she also studied with Japanese haiku master Seishi Yamaguchi. She received a Fulbright grant for her work on Chiyo-ni. She is the author of Haiku Mind: 108 Poems to Cultivate Awareness and Open Your Heart and Haiku: Asian Arts for Creative Kids as well as the collections Bone Poems, Without Warning, and Hot Haiku. \nYoshie Ishibashi is a researcher and the co-translator of Chiyo-jo's Haiku Seasons and The Classic Tradition of Haiku, among other works. \n \nNatalie Goldberg is the author of 16 books, including Writing Down the Bones and, most recently, Writing on Empty (St. Martin's Press 2024) and Three Simple Lines: A Writer's Pilgrimage into the Heart and Homeland of Haiku (New World Library 2021) which includes haiku by Chiyo-ni. Natalie lives in northern New Mexico and has practiced zen for many years.\n