Haiku Time on the air!

Haiku Time was mentioned today on the radio (listen here), during a segment about haiku on On Point with Tom Ashbrook, a show on WBUR. Haiku Time appears around 18:20. It led to some interesting discussion about the importance of intent in art, the artistic process, and the role of the poet in general. George Swede says:

Well, a lot of my poems arise unintentionally. I might be on the subway, walking in the street, and all of a sudden I have these words come in - I pull out my notebook, and write them down, and sometimes they work. And in many ways you could argue that the app that was just described maybe duplicates the artistic process within us.

I mean, you could argue that we're very much electro-biochemical based machines - that the neuronal networks that we establish for writing poetry, we plug into them and they start to generate words which eventually sometimes emerge into good poems, and usually not very good poems.

Swede is a poet, haiku expert, and editor of Frogpond, the journal of the Haiku Society of America, as On Point describes him on their site. He also says that Haiku Time might be a good way to get started if you're trying to write haiku. This is the widest recognition Haiku Time has received since it was featured on The Haiku Foundation's blog, which also led to some lively discussion.

Haiku Time is available in the app store for $0.99, and also has a free version, Haiku Time Basic. This is the example haiku that was given on air:

Full moon on the path
The wind singing of the sea
The voice of the woods