The brevity of a haiku, senryu, or tanka mirrors an experience that lasts no longer than a moment; haibun explores the lead-up to that poetic moment. Short-form poetry cultivates an awareness of the paradox inherent in ordinary experience. As always, when one examines the ordinary, one learns there is no such thing as ordinary.
Jean LeBlanc is a poet, artist, and retired educator living in New Jersey, USA. Her poetry and art have appeared in numerous publications. With Cyberwit.net, she has five previous collections of short-form poetry:
The Haiku Aesthetic: Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft (2013);
The Opposite of Bird: haiku and haibun (2015);
what a [hiding] place: haiku, tanka, haibun (2019);
Our Pitiful Metaphors: haibun (2022);
This Is the Alphabet Now: haiku, senryu, haiga/visual poems (2025). Using poetry, asemic writing, and collage, she explores beauty and ambiguity, image and connotation.
