in that direction, the sandpiper also rising… autumn evening autumn wind… in the barroom, reciting poems, fishermen and woodcutters a beautiful woman sobs in an inn amongst cogon grass… a deer’s cries the guardhouse of a certain village engrossed with the harvest moon hazy night! somebody could be loitering in the pear orchard
Yosa Buson (he/him) (1716-1784) was a Japanese poet and painter of the Edo period. Along with Matsuo Bashō and Kobayashi Issa, Buson is considered among the greatest haiku poets of the Edo Period. He is also known for painting haiga, writing haibun, and experimenting with hybrid Chinese-Japanese poetry. Buson died at the age of 68; he is buried at Konpuku-ji temple in Kyoto.
Joshua Gage (he/him) is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland, Ohio. His newest chapbook, blips on a screen, is available on Cuttlefish Books. He is a graduate of the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs.