Ron Whitehead is a poet with a mission. There aren’t enough of those around.

He’s been described by Allen Ginsberg as an “energetic Bodhisattvic poetic spirit,” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti as “un brave type!,” by Douglas Brinkley as “one of the remarkable poets of his generation” (Ron was born in 1950), by Hunter Thompson as “crazy as ten loons.”

No doubt about it, Whitehead is a charged and driven charismatic person. His aura of positivity and his Never Give Up attitude — which the Dalai …

Haiku. What is it about this small poem that makes people all over the world want to read and write them? Nick Virgilio, one of America’s first major haiku poets, once said in an interview that he wrote haiku “to get in touch with the real.” And the Haiku Society of America has called haiku a “poem in which Nature is linked to human nature.” We all want to know what is real and to feel at one with the natural world. …