“Like a Kid In a Candy Store”
Excited. Reserved. Anxious. Enthralled. People of the Susquehanna is an ongoing photography project which seeks to explore the lives and people who make up the Central Susquehanna Valley. What was once an area primarily settled by the Pennsylvania Dutch, the Central...
Ep. 87 — Seventeen Syllables of Suffering: The Haiku Scam
Tired of people calling 17 syllables “genius”? So am I.
In this brutally honest, occasionally unhinged episode of Perfectly Poetic, Allen Mowery finally unleashes his pent-up frustration about the most overrated poetic form of all time: the haiku. From childhood worksheet trauma to seasonal name-dropping, syllable policing, AI-generated nonsense, and the myth of Bashō’s frog — no stone (or smooth river pebble) is left unskipped.