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| Issue 28: | April 2025 |
| Haiku: | 6 words |
| + Visual Art: | Photograph |
| = Shahai (aka | photo-poem) |
Photograph by Arthur Rothstein
Poem by Darlene O’Dell
Collaborative shahai © 2023 by Darlene O’Dell. All rights reserved.
Publisher’s Note:
The photograph above, Singing games in the school yard, homestead school. Dailey, West Virginia (safety film negatives, 1941), is by American photographer Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985); and is from a series of public-domain, Farm Security Administration images archived among 14,000 of Rothstein’s black-and-white prints and photographs at the Library of Congress:
https://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=Arthur+Rothstein&co=fsa&st=gallery
Learn more about the photographer at Columbia University Library Archival Collections: https://findingaids.library.columbia.edu/archives/cul-9419838
Darlene O’Dell
is the author of The Story of the Philadelphia Eleven (Church Publishing, 2024), Raised in the World of Everyday Poets (Yavanika Press, 2022), and Sites of Southern Memory: The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray (University Press of Virginia, 2003).
Her essays and articles appear in National Catholic Reporter and Patheos; her photographs in Meat for Tea, National Catholic Reporter, and San Antonio Review; and her poetry in Contemporary Haibun Online, failed haiku, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, The Museum of Americana, Presence, Sonic Boom, Under the Bashō, and Wales Haiku Journal, among others.
Dr. O’Dell teaches online writing workshops from western North Carolina. For more information, please visit her website and her Bluesky page: darleneodell.com and [at]darleneodell22.bsky.social
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ A solemn Christmas in Asheville, three months after Hurricane Helene: essay and photographs by Darlene O’Dell in National Catholic Reporter (24 December 2024)
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