Comments, Reviews, Feedback: The Poetry Notebooks of Michael P. Garofalo.

The Poetry Notebooks of Michael P. Garofalo

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Comments from Visitors to the Webpages

"A superb online directory compiled by Michael P. Garofalo featuring all the best concrete poetry sites on the WWW."
- Christina Conrad, Performance Poetry Websites, 10 March 2002

"The most extensive site I've yet found on concrete poetry is the one designed and run by Michael P. Garofalo who has gathered a wide-ranging collection of styles, sites, and examples, including some of his own striking works of graphic/verbal art. This site is well worth a visit."
- Brad Burg's Website, 18 April 2003

"A very extensive concrete poetry index at this site."
- John C. Holcomb, Experimental Poetry, 2015

"Your concrete poetry website is brilliant! A treasure of research."
- Luc Fierens, Mail Art, 20 January 2004

"You've done some beautiful work, both in your own concrete poetry, and on the website. Indeed, I think yours is the most effective concrete poetry I've seen, as works of art."
- Brad Burg, e-mail on 28 October 2002, Outside the Lines: Poetry at Play

"Garofalo, Michael P. Concrete Poetry: Title Index to Websites, Books, Journals, Articles, and Poems. March 14, 2003. Listings for concrete poems, visual poetry, text art, interactive and hypertext poetry, shape poems, graphic arts and poetry."
- Susan Tichy, 2004, Concrete Visual Poetry Bibliography

"A very extensive list of concrete-visual poetry books, poems, forms, and websites."
- Is It a Book, 15 January 2003

"Bravo for your visual poetry!"
Joëlle Dautricourt, Big Bang Faerie, 13 August 2002

"Over the years you have certainly made a fabulous contribution via your excellent web sites."
- Patricia Hackett and James W. Hackett, Maui, Hawaii, 27 Jan 2005
The Haiku and Zen World of James W. Hackett

"It made me think of Emily Dickenson’s poems, which she refused to publish during her lifetime, because, as she emphatically wrote to her editor, they “did not print.” They needed to wait for the fluid forms of the digital page to be fully understood, since their shapes were so important to their meaning. They were a fusion of graphic art and words. What clever person thought to actually impress Garofalo’s poem into concrete, in this completely unlikely spot! The image-shape in that setting did make one sit still – the words took on a whole new meaning, greater than the words would have just on a printed page or screen. It made me look at those mountains, looming above me, to 5000 feet, and think how when the monsoons come, the water courses down these streets, and could take with it some of the mountain’s slopes. It could move mountains, and did, long before the street and shopping malls and bank were built. And it will continue to do so long after they are gone."
Sidewalk Poem. By Ester M. Sternberg, M.D., 2019

Cited and my TextArt graphic ncluded in the book Discourse and Creativity edited by Rodney H. Jones

"Mike Garofalo's Poetry Notebook pages have some of the best and up-to-date haiku weblinkage available. These are well organized into alphabetical order, author order, haiku resources, teaching haiku (by age group!!!), classic haijin, and more. This is an all-time best site for haijin! ***** A great place for gardeners, haijin and philosophers to wander for hours; an ongoing act of creativity."
Debra Woolard Bender, Paper Lanterns, 23 December 2000

"This site provides detailed information for links to numerous haiku sites. With a click, you'll find journals, books, small presses, directories, guides. You name it, you'll find it here. An excellent, easy-to-navigate site that was born to be bookmarked!"
- Elizabeth St Jacques, Poetry in the Light: Links to Please, 15 May 2001

"One of the most comprehensive collections of links to haiku resources on the Internet, assembled by Michael P. Garofalo. He is also a gardener, and his site, while very thorough on haiku, can take you to other corners as well."
- William J. Higginson, Open Directory Haiku Editor, 30 May 2000

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"A wonderful site, not only his nice haiku, but also a very nice and rich bibliography about haiku on the Net, addresses for publishing, addresses of personal sites of well-known writers; but above all, an exceptional site rich in quotes, about all that is connected with gardening , built by a specialist in bibliography."
- Serge Tome, Temps Libres - Free Times, 17 June 2000

"This web site has one of the most complete collections of links to haiku poetry that I have seen on the web. Carefully listed by names, it gives you quick access to haiku links. But this is not all, the site includes references and guides, a section on teaching haiku poetry, and a collection of Zen quotations. Furthermore, Mr. Garofalo, the founder, is very versatile. He has also posted The Spirit of Gardening and Quotes for Gardeners. And, last but not least, his very fine and sharp poems. So, haiku, Zen, the art of gardening, learning haiku, indexes, links ... bring us a wonderful site. Excellent! A great contribution!"
- Carlos Fleitas, (E)literature 15 March 2001

"It seems that most links pertaining to any haiku related subject of interest can be found at this website. I recommend it. It's well organized,
very complete, and a time-saver."
- Ty's Recommended Links, 9 May 2001

"Your webpage is unique and your haiku delightful."
- Lucille Younger, Losing the Continents, 7 September 2000, Poems

"Teaching Haiku Poetry, by Michael P. Garofalo, offers several links to lesson plans, historical information, etc. for each grade level, 2 through 12. The links are extensive and thorough, some are "cuter" than others, but most treat haiku and the teaching of it seriously. The lesson plans come from a wide variety of authors and are detailed and extensive; they range from 1 - 2 hour lessons to units that span several weeks. Well worth a look."
- Recommended Webpages for January 2002, Ohio State University Course

"An extensive array of pages containing a wealth of material on haiku offered by Michael P. Garofalo, a former library administrator who lives in California. Mr. Garofalo includes all this information as part of his larger Spirit of Gardening website. Links, biographies (not only of poets but of translator R. H. Blyth as well) and a great deal of other information make it a very useful site indeed."
- Mark Jewel, Basho and Haikai, 15 February 2001

"A very impressive gardening e-zine ... I look forward to many happy hours browsing it. What a joy it is to find so many creative and informed ways of sharing knowledge on the Internet! It just gets better and better every year! By the way, thanks for the extensive list of haiku links. It's bound to bring more gardeners into the haiku community."
- Jeanne Emrich, Haiga Online, 2 November 1999

"Features everything Haiku, from where and how to publish, to references on this genre."
- Resources for Poets, 1 May 2001

"Haiku Poetry: Links and References is a great site, and the accumulation of links is thorough and useful."
- Larry Gross 'Tishang', Asian Poetry: The Korean Sijo, 21 December 2000

"Great Site! Unquestionably, the best on the Web. I'm sure I'm not the first to notice the Herculean effort you've put into your site. You're making life easier for a lot of haijin and senryu writers out there."
- Richard Stevenson, Canadian Poet, 26 September 2000

"Just discovered your Zen page. Nine bows!"
- Gary Gach, 16 October 2003, What Book

"I just stumbled across your web page and was stunned. It's fantastic."
- Janine Beichman, Masaoka Shiki: His Life and Works, e-mail, 7 December 2002

"Thank you for the time taken to put together your Zen Poetry website, and for the opportunities and insights it holds."
- Bill Brown, Zen Time, 25 August 2001

"I teach religious studies at a small liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. I just wanted to drop you a note to let you know how much I appreciate your website. In particular, the Zen poetry is not only beautiful but useful in helping my students in an introductory class on Buddhism to understand (as much as it is possible to comprehend) emptiness. Thanks again, it is a rich, wonderful site."
- Allen Richardson, Cedar Crest College, 17 February 2005

"Your zen poetry website is outstanding!"
- Ken Wallace, e-mail, 26 February 2003, Buddha Activity

"Zen Poetry is our Spiritwalk Link of the Day."
- Roger Ebsen, Spiritwalk Portal, 23 November 2002

"The biggest list of English haiku sites I've ever found. A haiku site, which isn't mentioned here, can't exist!"
- Hans-Peter Kraus, Haiku, Haiku, 4 October 2000

"The most comprehensive, largest and most up-to-date guide to Haiku on the Internet. Title, author, and thematic access."
- Pilot-Search, Literary Search Web, 31 December 2000

"Bravo for your visual poetry!"
Joëlle Dautricourt, Big Bang Faerie, 13 August 2002

"Your webpage is unique and your haiku delightful."
Lucille Younger, Losing the Continents, 7 September 2000

"... very fine and sharp poems."
Carlos Fleitas, (E)literature, 15 March 2001

"I read your August and September poems over my coffee this morning, an excellent recording of the tempo of summer and psyche."
Ann Gleeson, The Body as Audience, 11 September 2000

"A fantastic collection of haiku links."
- Frans Kwaad, Haiku Schetsboek, 19 October 2000

"I am very much impressed with your webpage on R. H. Blyth. Your pages express a simple elegance, are informative, meaty, and easy to read."
- Richard Gilbert, e-mail 9 March 2002, Quiet Site

"Thank you for your Zen site, which is great."
- Luc Boussard, Zen and Art, 24 March 2002

"I have so enjoyed reading through your Haiku and Zen Poetry collection . . . an astonishing body of work."
- Pepper Provenzano, e-mail 27 October 2002, TreeLink

"I visited your webpages and think they can't be topped. They offer the most comprehensive information about the Haiku world."
Gerd Börner, Deutsche Haiku Gesellschaft, 19 January 2001

"Poetry for the Gardener: Includes numerous examples of Taoist and Zen poetry. Most are based around simple living and gardening."
- Shen, DMOZ Open Directory Editor,
Religious Poetry - Taoism, 12 February 2001

"Your directories are probably the most comprehensive listing of haiku sites anywhere on the Internet."
- Gary Barnes (Sogi), e-mail, 9 September 2002, Haiku Poet's Hut

"A useful website. Thanks for your good work."
- Sam Hamill, translator and poet, e-mail, 20 August 2002

"I find myself disposed to call the reader's attention to a site which maps most, or all, it sometimes seems, of the large supplies of Zen poetry available on the web. The listings include sites, titles, commentaries, quotes, and extensive links to anything whatever relevant to the poet or poems, and can be found, as part of a larger assembly, at Zen Poetry, edited by Mike Garofalo."
- Sam Hazelhurst, Proverbial Zen, 27 August 2001

"Some of the best collections of web links related to haiku ..."
- Millikin University, 26 October 2001, Links to Haiku Websites
Referring to Teaching Haiku Poetry and others.

"I am an elementary education student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . I am student teaching in a Fourth grade classroom and was looking for a way to assess and review the use of adjectives with my children. I decided to use Haiku poetry. I used your “Teaching Haiku Poetry” webpageto help learn about and plan the lesson. What a great website it is! There are so many resources. I learned so much! Thank you for this great resource!"
- Tabitha Day Thomas, e-mail, 6 November 2002

"I would just like to thank you for your website. It is just beautiful. I discovered it searching for a Zen poem to add to my term paper, and found just what I needed. Thank you again for taking the time to put together such a marvelous collection."
- Maria Monks, 4 April 2005

My poems have also appeared in the following print publications:

Voices and Echoes: Haiku Society of America Members' Anthology 2001

In addition, I am also grateful to the following
websites for referring their readers to my web pages:

Mike Garofalo at the Klickitat River in Southwest Washington, 2019

Cloud Hands Blog of Michael P. Garofalo

Facebook of Michael P. Garofalo