A brief review of The Smoking Mirror has appeared in issue 53.3-2015 of Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature. Here is a link to the Project Muse page for the issue, which includes the review. You can read a scanned version of the article here.
My narrative poem “Chupacabra Genesis” will appear in The Call of the Chupacabra, Volume I, edited by Juan Manuel Pérez and Malia Pérez with cover art by Yosh Reyez, scheduled for release Fall 2015/Winter 2016.
Karai Senryū was born in 1718 in Edo. A town official and frequent judge of poetry contests, he was responsible for popularizing a lighter, more whimsical variation of haiku that now bears his name (senryū). Before his passing at the age of 73, he composed the following jisei or death…