Tuesday, September 1, 2026

SECOND NATURE: Salvaged Metal Sculpture and Haiku at Rockford ArtScene

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  SECOND NATURE: Salvaged Metal Sculpture and Haiku at Rockford ArtScene This fall has developed in a way I did not particularly plan. What...
Friday, August 28, 2026

Hike You!: The Bicycle That Came Out of the River

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  Hike You! : The Bicycle That Came Out of the River Some objects become symbols because somebody deliberately makes them symbols. Others j...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Moonscape: A Year of Haiku Under the Same Moon

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  Moonscape: A Year of Haiku Under the Same Moon MOONSCAPE HAIKU PHASE I is the first of three collaborations in Thomas L. Vaultonburg and...
Saturday, August 15, 2026

Small Songs for Weary Travelers: Finding a Larger World by Making Life Smaller

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  Small Songs for Weary Travelers: Finding a Larger World by Making Life Smaller T here is a sentence near the beginning of Small Songs for...
Wednesday, August 12, 2026

My Absolutely True Alice's Restaurant Story

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  My Absolutely True Alice's Restaurant Story I grew up with Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant Massacree." I knew th...
Saturday, August 8, 2026

Review of Vanished Roads By Conrad Sienkiewicz

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  Review of Vanished Roads By Conrad Sienkiewicz “Vanished Roads” by Thomas L. Vaultonburg is a fantastic collection of just over 100 haiku...

Five Haiku By Thomas L. Vaultonburg That Explain Prairie Zen

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  Five Haiku That Explain Prairie Zen Prairie Zen is less a philosophy than a way of paying attention. It borrows something from Zen—the su...