Rucksack Poetry
How haiku found a home in America
Andrew Schelling
Andrew Schelling is a poet and translator. He recently edited Love and the Turning Seasons: India’s Poetry of Spiritual & Erotic Longing, and has a volume of poems from Bhartrihari (ca. 7th century) forthcoming from Shambhala Publications. He teaches at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado.
Where the Moon Is Companion
Seven centuries of poetry under the same night sky
Finding Their Voices
Buddhist culture in China is a story langely told by men, for men, and about men. Echoes occasionally emerge suggesting that women, too, made rich contributions, but how many names come to mind? In Daughters of…
Questionnaire
A poem by Andrew Schelling
IdeasMagazine | Special Section
Bardo of Lost Mammals
As extinction pushes species into the past, humans must decide how to pull them back into the future.
Instructions for Tea
(I) Bring a kettle of cold fresh water to boil. Scald teapot with a dash of hot water. One slightly heaped teaspoon black or green leaf per cup: into your palm, then into the pot. Pour…
Haibun
Rock is naturalist scripture. The deeper you go the older the story. Pikas & squirrels scamper over the top, then spiral descent from gone tooth & twig. Petrified bone sediment myth. Or psychic fossil? Horesetail &…
Wandering Clouds: The Poets of Ch’an Buddhism
Whoever said poetry or Buddhism was anything unusual?
Personal ReflectionsMagazine | Feature
Meeting the Buddha
On Pilgrimage in Buddhist India
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