A poetic journal is a literary genre combining aspects of poetry with the daily, or near daily, "takes" of journal writing. Born of twin impulses: to track change in daily life and to memorialize experience, poetic journals owe allegiances to Asian writing â particularly the Japanese haibun of Matsuo Bashà Â, The Pillow Book of Sei Shà Ânagon, and the poetic diaries of Masaoka Shiki â as well as Objectivist poets and others associated with Donald Allen's anthology The New American Poetry 1945-1960. Unlike traditional diaries or journals that focus primarily on recounting a day's experience, poetic journals emphasize the act of writing itself in collaboration with the day's account. Taking its cue from post-Jack Kerouac writers, like Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge, the poetic journal aims to be all-inclusive as well as timely and attentive. To quote Tyler Doherty in his introduction to For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals, "<nowiki>[The poetic journal]</nowiki> doesn't try to tell us what the world is, so much as remind us that the world is."
Asian Influences: Matsuo Bashà Â, Sei Shà Ânagon, Masaoka Shiki.<br /> 19th Century Naturalist Influences: Henry David Thoreau. <br /> Objectivist influences: William Carlos Williams, Lorine Niedecker, Charles Reznikoff.
Poetic Journal Anthologies: <br />Tyler Doherty & Tom Morgan: For the Time-Being: The Bootstrap Book of Poetic Journals Poetic Journals:<br />Paul Blackburn: The Journals<br /> Tyler Doherty: Bodhidharma Never Came to Hatboro<br /> Larry Eigner: Readiness / Enough / Depends / On<br /> Zoketsu Norman Fischer: The Narrow Roads of Japan<br /> Allen Ginsberg: The Fall of America<br /> Jack Kerouac: Book of Sketches<br /> Joanne Kyger: Again; As Ever; Patzcuaro<br /> David Lehman: The Daily Mirror<br /> Bernadette Mayer: MidwinterâÂÂs Day<br /> Michael Rothenberg: Unhurried Vision, The Paris Journals, Narcissus<br /> Ron Silliman: Bart; Xing<br /> Louis MacNeice: Autumn Journal; Xing<br /> Andrew Schelling: The Road to Ocosingo; Two Elk: A High Country Notebook<br /> Joel Sloman: Cuban Journal<br /> Gary Snyder: Earth House Hold<br /> Philip Whalen: Goofbook<br /> John Wieners: 707 Scott Street Robert Crosson: Daybook