Clark Strand

Clark Strand is a former senior editor at Tricycle. His books include Seeds From a Birch Tree: Writing Haiku and the Spiritual Journey and The Way of the Rose: The Radical Path of the Divine Feminine Hidden in the Rosary, which was co-authored with his wife, Perdita Finn. He teaches the popular group “Weekly Haiku Challenges with Clark Strand” on Facebook.

Trike Daily Arts & Culture

Best of the Haiku Challenge (March 2021)

Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge

By Clark Strand

Apr 07, 2021

Trike Daily Arts & Culture

Best of the Haiku Challenge (February 2021)

Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge

By Clark Strand

Mar 04, 2021

Trike Daily Arts & Culture

Best of the Haiku Challenge (January 2021)

Announcing the winning poems from Tricycle’s monthly challenge

By Clark Strand

Feb 04, 2021

Magazine Arts & Culture

The World’s Most Popular Poem

Tricycle invites you to take the Haiku Challenge.

By Clark Strand

Spring 2021

Magazine Arts & Culture

Absolutely, Indestructibly Happy

An interview with Tina Turner

By Clark Strand

Winter 2020

Trike Daily

A Gleeful Foreboding

Why we secretly crave severe storms

By Clark Strand

Aug 31, 2015

Trike Daily Society & Environment

What Was Mindfulness?

Mindfulness seemed like the answer to our prayers. Instead, it came to justify some of our worst cultural excesses.

By Clark Strand

Nov 14, 2014

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Green Koans Case 54: Nichiren’s One-Eyed Turtle

CASE #54: Nichiren’s One-Eyed Turtle Nichiren Daishonin wrote: “This is as rare as the one-eyed turtle finding a suitable hollow in a floating sandalwood log, or a thread lowered from the heavens passing through the eye of a needle on earth. How wondrous!” BACKGROUND Nichiren Daishonin Nichiren (1222 – 1282) is the founder of […]

By Clark Strand

Jun 12, 2013

Trike Daily Society & Environment

Green Koans Case 31: Daito’s Raincoat

CASE #31: Daito’s Raincoat Daito Kokushi wrote a short verse about the rain: No umbrella, getting soaked,I’ll just use the rain as my raincoat. BACKGROUND Daito Kokushi A Japanese Zen master of the Rinzai sect, Daito (1282-1337) was the founder of Daitoku-ji Monastery, one of Japan’s most influential temples. Established as “National Teacher” by […]

By Clark Strand

Jun 12, 2013