Annette Makino

Three wayfarers in Japan — Makino Studios Konnichiwa! I’m back from a wonderful 18 days in Japan with my husband Paul and son Gabriel. On this, my fifth trip there, we toured Tokyo boulevards, mountain trails, rice paddies, rural villages and...

Three Wayfarers in Japan — a blog post and pics about our recent trip following in the footsteps of haiku poet Basho, who walked the same route in 1689.

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still wearing white
long after summer’s end
wild jasmine

#haiku #senryu
#poetry #micropoetry
#3lines

migrating geese
pulling the stars back home
autumn equinox

#haiku
#DailyHaikuPrompt

Blog — Makino Studios BLOG Annette Makino shares thoughts on the creative process—also known as life.

My latest blog post, "How a haiku is hatched," describes the process of writing this #haiku:

spiral journal my bit of the galaxy

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Happy equinox, everyone!
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#haiku #equinox

falling through
the broken window
autumn moon

- Deborah A. Bennett
Nick Virgilio Haiku Association,
October 2024

“There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky.”

~ Dejan Stojanović (b. 1959)

#Painting by Matazō Kayama.

Fourth of July by Tanya McDonald - Rattle: Poetry Boyfriend home on four days of leave, I borrow Mom’s pickup and we go for a drive. Windows down, radio up. AC/DC. Deep Purple. Cream. Heart.

ring box—
my answer
in the form of a question

—Tanya McDonald

We had a great crowd for the first-ever poetry reading in Humboldt by Asian American poets on Sunday!

“Ink to Paper” featured original #poetry by seven poets: Mark Shikuma, Shizue Harada (poems read by Amy Uyeki), Daryl Ngee Chinn, Libby Yee, Tony Wallin-Sato, Paul Michael Atienza and me.

Honored to have my #haibun “Migration” featured on Rattle.com today!

I’m sharing #haiku and art at the Ink to Paper #poetry reading at the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka, CA this Sunday at 2!

This weekend is a celebration of local Asian American culture, with a Chinatown street festival, group art show, opera and poetry reading. More: makinostudios.com/blog

Thanks so much! ☺️

“Winding River” is one of six #collages I have on view as part of the group show of Asian American artists at the Morris Graves Museum in Eureka, CA right now! The official opening is this Saturday, May 3, 6-9 p.m. during Arts Alive. Hope to see some friends there!

#asianartists #humboldt

The ukiaHaiku Festival, held in Ukiah, CA, was such a nice event! I gave a keynote about my haiku journey, the elements of effective haiku, haiku-related forms and why we write haiku. People of all ages and walks of life shared their #haiku amid live music and good spirits.

Happy to support #independentbookstoreday today! This is Northtown Books in Arcata, CA.

tinywords the shape of a life one sparkling wave returns to the sea (haiga)

The great #haiga artist @annettemakino.bsky.social at tinywords today:
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the shape of a life
one sparkling wave
returns to the sea

alt text: #haiku written next to a breaking wave in indigo & turquoise, made from painted strips of paper.

Aw thanks Kris!

In the background, green grass with a blue and white streaked sky. Two wooden poles with four lines across them hold a pair of cream colour pants and three dark shirts. Text reads cold laundry line - the shape of your sweater still holding the wind - Molly Thapviwat Bangkok, Thailand The Solitary Daisy

Congratulations to first place winner, Molly Thapviwat! #haiku #haikucontest

Whiptail Journal, Issue 2, February 2022

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every star has
an understudy
—firefly

#haiku #poetry #dailyhaikuprompt (fire)

home alone
the teapot whistles
a single note

#haikufeels
#note
#haiku

Collage of green moss-covered stones with small frog on one of them. Haiku reads: maybe we too soften with age moss-covered stones

maybe we too
soften with age
moss-covered stones

Happy International Haiku Poetry Day!

This piece is an 11x14 mixed media collage made with paper, acrylic paint, ink, colored pencil and glue on cradled birch panel.

#haiku #haiga #collage #aging

Sign reading HAIKU UKIAH

The 23rd annual ukiaHaiku Festival takes place on Sunday, April 27, 2-4 at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah, CA. I’m honored to be the keynote speaker, a cool twist for a Ukiah High grad! I’ll have a Makino Studios table with books etc.
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ukiahaiku.org

#haiku #ukiah

So glad it speaks to you!

Collage of dark blue ocean with gold sand and setting sun. Haiku reads: to accept the things 
I cannot change 
outgoing tide

Here is one of my #haiku that was featured on Cornell University's Mann Library Daily Haiku in March.

to accept the things

I cannot change

outgoing tide

haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu/category/author/annette-makino/

The artists are Karla Kaizoji Austin, Cate Be, Jeremy Hara, Ted Hsu, the late Suk Choo Kim, Ali Lee, Thao Le Khac, Amy Leon, Annette Makino, Yoshiko Skelton, Amy Uyeki and Libby Yee.

The art ranges from traditional landscapes to contemporary street art. The participating artists work in various media and techniques including Chinese brush painting, ceramics, photography, spray paint, objects found in nature, airbrush, collage and digital art.

The show title refers to the idea that those of Asian descent who live in Humboldt County straddle different cultures. There is an infinite variety of ways that artists express that complex reality; countless gates that connect those worlds.

Eleven Asian people, ages 36 to 92, smile in front of trees.

Excited to be part of an art show at the Morris Graves Museum of Art in Eureka, CA featuring 12 local artists of Asian ancestry! The show opens Sat., May 3, 6 to 9 p.m. "Ten Thousand Gates: A Celebration of Humboldt Asian American Artists" will run from April 26 to June 8.

#artists #humboldt