#  David McCann in the Boston Globe -- "The new haiku? Harvard professor David McCann says America is ready for sijo" 

 





October 22, 2009

 

 

     ![Professor David McCann at Korea Institute 2009](/sites/g/files/omnuum10896/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/koreainstitute/files/mccan_1247506139_4928.jpg?itok=F_aTAyqM) 

 



 

 "CAMBRIDGE - The class on writing Asian poetry that Professor David McCann teaches at Harvard includes units on Chinese quatrains, Korean sijo, and Japanese haiku, the last of which is so well-known that McCann’s students had haiku days in middle school. Why, McCann wondered, couldn’t the three-line Korean sijo that he loves enjoy the same widespread recognition as the three-line, 17-syllable haiku? ..." For more articles, please click the links below.

 **Related Links**:

 [The new haiku? Harvard professor David McCann says America is ready for sijo](http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2009/06/30/the_sijo_poetry_form_captures_a_harvard_professor8217s_imagination/)

 [6 readers get poetic in 'sijo' contest](http://boston.com/lifestyle/gallery/sijocontest/)

 [Write your own sijo - contest!](http://www.boston.com/community/forums.html?plckForumPage=ForumDiscussion&plckDiscussionId=Cat:Arts%20and%20EntertainmentForum:9495Discussion:f73047b6-ee09-428d-9aa2-da2332c0dfe6&plckCurrentPage=0)



 

 

 



 

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