147‭ ‬MILLION ORPHANS (MMXI-MML)

While no one knows the number of orphans worldwide, a common estimate is 147 million. These children represent one of the greatest humanitarian tragedies of our time even as their plight fails to receive as much attention as natural disasters or wars. 147 MILLION ORPHANS: MMXI-MML is the first book-length haybun poetry collection. A “haybun” is a combination of hay(na)ku and other text. The hay(na)ku is a 21st century diasporic poetic form; its core is a tercet-based stanza with the first line being one word, the second line being two words, and the third line being three words.