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James Schlett

@jamesschlett

Author, father & #haiku poet. #Books: A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden (@Cornell Press, 2015); Frontier Struggles (@UAkronPress, 2021). Views are my own.

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I got this #haiku published in the winter 2022 issue of Modern Haiku: in her nightgown zig-zagging fireflies #poetry #microverse #fireflies #childhood #fatherhood

I got this #haiku published in the winter 2022 issue of Modern Haiku:

in her nightgown
zig-zagging
fireflies

#poetry #microverse #fireflies #childhood #fatherhood
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I got this #haiku published in March 2022 edition of The Heron’s Nest: bit.ly/3pwlXcN autumn night the growing pile of incense ash #poetry #nature #zen

I got this #haiku published in March 2022 edition of The Heron’s Nest: bit.ly/3pwlXcN

autumn night
the growing pile
of incense ash

#poetry #nature #zen
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I got this #haiku published in the winter 2022 issue of Frogpond: Independence Day far away children become glowsticks #poetry #July4th #Independence Day #fatherhood

I got this #haiku published in the winter 2022 issue of <a href="/frogpondjournal/">Frogpond</a>:

Independence Day
far away children become
glowsticks

#poetry #July4th #Independence Day #fatherhood
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Rollo May offers the best argument that a shallow & meaningless life is not sustainable, no matter how much one enjoys it. Sooner or later, it will collapse, either due to the horrors of life or due to the inner decay of uncultivated potentials for virtue & value.

Rollo May offers the best argument that a shallow &amp; meaningless life is not sustainable, no matter how much one enjoys it. Sooner or later, it will collapse, either due to the horrors of life or due to the inner decay of uncultivated potentials for virtue &amp; value.
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A New Dimension to a Meaningful Life scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-… via Scientific American This is of of the three dimensions for meaning (experienrial value) identified by Vitorl Frankl long time ago.

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I got these two #haiku published in Under the #Basho: bit.ly/3rN0Eor three girls point in three directions amusement park never knowing which path she’ll follow sledding #poetry #fatherhood #dadpoem

I got these two #haiku published in Under the #Basho: bit.ly/3rN0Eor

three girls
point in three directions
amusement park

never knowing
which path she’ll follow
sledding

#poetry #fatherhood #dadpoem
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I got this #haiku published in the June 2022 issue of Stardust Haiku bit.ly/3xRXeCY clouds collide on the trampoline white poplar fluff #poetry #fatherhood #childhood

I got this #haiku published in the June 2022 issue of Stardust Haiku bit.ly/3xRXeCY

clouds collide
on the trampoline
white poplar fluff

#poetry #fatherhood #childhood
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I got this #haiku published in the Autumn 2024 issue of Modern Haiku: vinegar’s smell on a Friday night coloring eggs #poetry #Easter #dadpoem

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The Autumn 2024 issue of Modern Haiku features my essay, “The Providence of Moments.” It addresses the question of why a moment comes when it does: Why THIS moment? It is a question that cannot be answered without #eternity, as the Danish existential philosopher and theologian

The Autumn 2024 issue of Modern Haiku features my essay, “The Providence of Moments.” It addresses the question of why a moment comes when it does: Why THIS moment? It is a question that cannot be answered without #eternity, as the Danish existential philosopher and theologian
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I got this #haiku published in the new issue of The Heron's Nest. trespassing we steal a sniff of lilac theheronsnest.com/December2024/h… #poetry

I got this #haiku published in the new issue of The Heron's Nest.

trespassing
we steal
a sniff of lilac

theheronsnest.com/December2024/h…

#poetry
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I got this haiku published in the new issue of Modern Haiku: wind through meadow grass the sound of our shadows stretching down the hill

I got this haiku published in the new issue of Modern Haiku:

wind through meadow grass
the sound of our shadows
stretching down the hill
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I got this #haiku published in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Akitsu Quarterly staying up a little longer owls #poetry #birds

I got this #haiku published in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of Akitsu Quarterly

staying up
a little longer
owls

#poetry #birds
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Here's a haiku I got published in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of the Akitsu Quarterly journal: on the couch one reads, one sleeps, one blanket snow

Here's a haiku I got published in the Spring/Summer 2025 issue of the Akitsu Quarterly journal:

on the couch
one reads, one sleeps, one blanket
snow
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Ten years after Cornell University Press published my book, A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers’ Camp in the Adirondacks, it’s still making spring/summer reading lists. The Adirondack Council included the book in its “Mud Season Reading List.” It states: “Author

Ten years after <a href="/CornellPress/">Cornell University Press</a> published my book, A Not Too Greatly Changed Eden: The Story of the Philosophers’ Camp in the Adirondacks, it’s still making spring/summer reading lists. The Adirondack Council included the book in its “Mud Season Reading List.”

It states: “Author
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Happy Father's Day! Here's a haiku from my book, children & Bubbles: Haiku on Fatherhood (Red Moon Press, 2023), with illustrations by my daughter. this is life my daughter hands me an acorn You can order children & bubbles via Red Moon Press' web site: redmoonpress.com/product/childr…

Happy Father's Day! Here's a haiku from my book, children &amp; Bubbles: Haiku on Fatherhood (Red Moon Press, 2023), with illustrations by my daughter.

this is life
my daughter
hands me an acorn

You can order children &amp; bubbles via Red Moon Press' web site:

redmoonpress.com/product/childr…
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CherryPicksReviews.com includes my book, Frontier Struggles, in its list of “The 30 Medical Psychology History To Read In August 2025.” It has been four years since @UAkronPress published Frontier Struggles: Rollo May and the Little Band of Psychologists Who Saved Humanism, and

CherryPicksReviews.com includes my book, Frontier Struggles, in its list of “The 30 Medical Psychology History To Read In August 2025.” It has been four years since @UAkronPress published Frontier Struggles: Rollo May and the Little Band of Psychologists Who Saved Humanism, and
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There is faith in the moment: The full version of my essay, “The Providence of Moments,” published in Autumn 2024 issue of Modern Haiku (55:3), is now fully accessible online. Here are a few passages from the essay, and be sure to read “The Providence of Moments”:

There is faith in the moment: The full version of my essay, “The Providence of Moments,” published in Autumn 2024 issue of Modern Haiku (55:3), is now fully accessible online. Here are a few passages from the essay, and be sure to read “The Providence of Moments”: