Michael Janairo

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  • Thank you, World Haiku Review

    Thank you, World Haiku Review, for publishing my work in the latest edition.

     

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  • Paul Klee + Gertrude Stein + Nederlands Dans Theater

    Paul Klee + Gertrude Stein + Nederlands Dans Theater

    On the fifth floor of the Met Breuer, in an exhibition called “Humor and Fantasy — The Berggruen Paul Klee Collection,” is this untitled Paul Klee watercolor painting from 1914:

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    A dance program called Shutters Shut was performed among the Paul Klee work by two dancers from the Nederlands Dans Theater who danced in time to Gertrude Stein’s voice reciting her poem “If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso.”

    The dance looked like this:

  • New poem ‘That Day in Assisi’ just published

    Thank you, The Ekphrastic Review, for publishing my poem!

    You can read it here: http://www.ekphrastic.net/ekphrastic/that-day-in-assissi-by-michael-janairo

    It is inspired by this painting:

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  • Haiku movie reviews, September 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, September 2015

    Two Days One Night (2014)
    Co-workers are asked:
    Vote for or against her job.
    Is this a real thing?

    John Wick (2014)
    This guy is angry
    He’ll mess you up very bad
    Dressed in a sharp suit

  • Haiku movie reviews, July 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, July 2015

    Jurassic World (2015)
    The brothers bore me
    Their aunt, though, and those high heels?
    Dinosaurs watch out!

    Vengeance (2009)
    Gangsters sneak around
    Gunfire erupts in Macau
    A dad’s mind is lost

    Inside Out (2015)
    In internal realms
    Feelings — not gods — vie to rule
    This is mainstream fare?

  • Haiku movie reviews, June 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, June 2015

    Love and Mercy (2015)
    Living on the edge
    Brian Wilson hears so much
    Joy in creation

     

    Brooklyn Castle (2012)
    Junior high chess champs
    Won’t be outplayed by budgets
    These kids: They got game

     

    Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
    Big engines go roar
    Lots of crazy stuff blows up
    — Women rule the day

     

    Gone Girl (2014)
    He said or she said
    It’s from someone’s point of view
    — Unreliable

     

    Spy (2015)
    McCarthy goes Bond
    Nobody does it better
    Oh so much violence

  • Haiku movie reviews, February 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, February 2015

    Frances Ha
    Frances Ha

    I didn’t see as many movies as I’d like this past month. Just two:

    The Interview (2014)
    Randall Park steals it,
    Though it isn’t that funny.
    — Too much James Franco


    Frances Ha (2012)
    A Gen-Y woman
    In New York and then Paris
    Grows up — a little

    Read January’s haiku movie reviews here.

  • Haiku movie reviews, January 2015

    Haiku movie reviews, January 2015

    Boyhood

     

    Internal Affairs (1990)

    Cop flick from long ago

    It probably felt dated

    When it was released

     

    3 Days to Kill (2014)

    A dad and killer

    Bossed around by a hot chick

    Dumb but fun action

     

    Alex Cross (2012)

    Guy from “Lost”? Creepy

    Tyler Perry – he can act!

    So where’s the sequel?

     

    Strange Days (1995)

    Before Y2K

    Cops, murder, rape, data discs

    A fine mess for Fiennes

     

    Pride (2014)

    Gays support miners

    In Thatcher’s beastly Britain

    Wonderful friendships

     

    Selma (2014)

    Protests need clear goals,

    Strategies, tactics, leaders

    — True courage routs hate

     

    Kon-tiki (2012)

    Thor sets out to prove

    Islanders came from Peru

    — all on one big raft

     

    Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

    Disney wants Poppins

    The author has a conflict

    With her long dead dad

     

    Boyhood (2014)

    Here’s a crushing truth

    “I just thought there would be more”

    as time marches on