The Renku Sessions: Triparshva—Call for verse 20
Linda Papanicolaou leads in a triparshva. If you're new to renku you're especially invited to join in, learn more, and have fun. This week, the call for verse 20.
Book of the Week: Shadows in the Empty Road
Lewis Sanders was one of the mainstays of haiku publishing in the 1980s, bringing an Eastern sensibility to his Western life . . .
Old Pond Comics: Cold Toad Morning
Every Saturday morning Jessica Tremblay will delight us with a comic strip from her new Haiku-Comics series.
The Renku Sessions: Triparshva—Call for verse 19
Linda Papanicolaou leads in a triparshva. If you're new to renku you're especially invited to join in, learn more, and have fun. This week, the call for verse 19.
Book of the Week: Gaza
One of a very few books of haiku that are expressly political in expression, this interesting work doesn’t take sides . . .
Old Pond Comics: Where Flowers Come From
Every Saturday morning Jessica Tremblay will delight us with a comic strip from her new Haiku-Comics series.
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Marion Clarke plumbs the mysteries of Claire McCotter’s inverted syntax in this week’s re:Virals.
The Renku Sessions: Triparshva—Call for verse 18
Linda Papanicolaou leads in a triparshva. If you're new to renku you're especially invited to join in, learn more, and have fun. This week, the call for verse 18.
Book of the Week: The Elements
One of the Radish series of miniatures published by Wim Lovfers, Hans Reddingius’s work seems perfectly at home in such a setting . . .
Old Pond Comics: Insect Singing
Every Saturday morning Jessica Tremblay will delight us with a comic strip from her new Haiku-Comics series.
re:Virals 4
Scott Mason offers his take on Julie Warther’s haunting one-liner of the transition state from dream to reality.
The Renku Sessions: Triparshva—Call for verse 17
Linda Papanicolaou leads in a triparshva. If you're new to renku you're especially invited to join in, learn more, and have fun. This week, the call for verse 17.
Nominate Your Favorite Haiku for a Touchstone Award
Bruce Feingold, chair of the Touchstone Awards committee, urges you to nominate your favorite work from 2015.
Book of the Week: 21 Erotic Haiku for Samantha
This is one of the most unusual books of haiku you will ever read . . .
Old Pond Comics: Issa’s Dragonfly
Every Saturday morning Jessica Tremblay will delight us with a comic strip from her new Haiku-Comics series.
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Nick Virgilio explains the origins of one of his best-known poems, and Dan Schwerin explores it in this week’s re:viral.
Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World—October 2015
In October, the Per Diem poem in the header will be a haiku from India.
The Renku Sessions: Triparshva—Call for verse 16
Linda Papanicolaou leads in a triparshva. If you're new to renku you're especially invited to join in, learn more, and have fun. This week, the call for verse 16.
Book of the Week: Winter Touch
John Ower was attracted to haiku by its sensibility, its (seemingly unironic) acceptance of the world as it is, its association with austerity and beauty . . .