CINQUAIN SAMPLES OF CONTEMPORARY CINQUAINS by: Jeanne Cassler Thomas D. Greer Alan Reynolds ABOUT CINQUAINS Perhaps as early as in 1909, the shy and sensitive Adelaide Crapsy had read A Hundred Verses from Old Japan, William N. Porter's translations of the Hyakunin Isshu anthology and From the Eastern Sea by Yone Nogushis. In Adelaide's notebook she lists eleven tanka and eight haiku she had ...