About

A Beginning Poetry Workshop in College becomes a New Year’s Resolution to write a daily haiku out in the working world, becomes a weekly haiku newsletter and now, 4087 haiku later, becomes the Kigo Blog. Creativity begets creativity. But at the core of this practice, is a seed of healing I never knew I would need until the moment the creative practice was there to meet it.

The first issue of the Kigo Newsletter was sent the morning before radiosurgery started the process of obliteration of a malformation in my brain that had caused two brain hemorrhages. The weekly haiku cycles have been my companion along the path to recovery. The creative practice itself, an immune system to fill the space of healing and for whatever life experience meets the present moment - joyful or uncertain.

When Luke is not thinking about things in terms of 17 syllables, he works in the Ticketing & Live Events space at Google - helping fans get to the concerts, games and theater they love. He is a 3 time Moth Story Slam Champion and his stories have been featured on The Moth Radio Hour. He met his wife at a party in College when she punched him in the face. They now have 3 kids who eat radishes like apples (except for the 9 month old).

Please send him an email if you ever want to talk about the creative process, how to bring personal storytelling to the foreforont of what you do or to nerd out on poetry in general.