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 . Yoshie Ishibashi is a researcher and the co-translator of Chiyo-jo's Haiku Seasons and The Classic Tradition of Haiku , among other works. Natalie 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.