Senryū

is a Japanese form of short poetry similar to haiku in construction: three lines with 17 (or , often translated as syllables, but see the article on for distinctions). tend to be about human foibles while haiku tend to be about nature, and are often cynical or darkly humorous while haiku are more serious. Unlike haiku, do not include a (cutting word), and do not generally include a , or season word. is named after Edo period poet Karai Senryū, whose collection 誹風柳多留 launched the genre into the public consciousness. A typical example from the collection: This , which can also be translated "Catching him / I see the robber / is my son," is not so much a personal experience of the author as an example of a type of situation (provided by a short comment called a or fore-verse, which usually prefaces a number of examples) and/or a brief or witty rendition of an incident from history or the arts (plays, songs, tales, poetry, etc.). In the 1970s, Michael McClintock edited Seer Ox: American Senryu Magazine. In 1993, Michael Dylan Welch edited and published Fig Newtons: to Go, the first anthology of English-language . Prune Juice, a journal of and , is edited by Tia Haynes. Failed Haiku is edited by Mike Rehling and Bryan Rickert. Simply Haiku archives (final publication in 2009) contain a regular column edited by Alan Pizzarelli. Additionally, one can regularly find and related articles in some haiku publications. For example, the World Haiku Review has regularly published . regularly appear or appeared in the pages of Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Bottle Rockets, Woodnotes, Tundra, Haiku Canada Review, Presence, Blithe Spirit, Kingfisher, and other haiku journals, often unsegregated from haiku. The Haiku Society of America holds the annual Gerald Brady Memorial Award for best unpublished . Since about 1990, the Haiku Poets of Northern California has been running a contest, as part of its San Francisco International Haiku and Senryu Contest. J C Brown, Senryu: Poems of the People, Simon & Schuster Ltd, 1991, R. H.