Touchstone Awards

2024 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award — Awarded and Honorable Mentions

The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award winners and honorable mentions for books of haiku and related forms published in 2024.  The seventy-six books for this year’s awards represent a rich variety of English-language books from many nations and haiku traditions.  Panel members read every book and then each panelist nominated ten books for consideration which became the Long List.  Through a series of votes, careful deliberation  and discussion, the panel members arrived at the Short List.  Following another round of voting, discussion and evaluation, the panel members selected three  award winners and three honorable mentions.

The Touchstone Short List included outstanding volumes of haiku and haibun showcasing a wide range of subject matter and themes and spanning an equally broad spectrum of styles, from traditional and nature-based works to experimental and language-based treatments.
I speak for the entire panel when I say that everyone recognized that each book on the Short List was unique and had great merit. I can attest to the difficulty of distinguishing the ‘best’ among these books. I wish to thank the Distinguished Books Award Panelists — Susan Antolin, Joyce Clement , Edward Cody Huddleston,  Peter Newton,  and Christoper Patchel — for their diligence, expertise, and effort. The Awarded and Honored Books reflect the panel’s assessment of the most noteworthy offerings from this year’s highly distinguished field.
Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Winners for 2024
  • Banwarth, Francine. Bare Necessities. (Taylorville, Ill: Brooks Books, 2024).
  • Rotella, Alexis. Milkweed. (Taylorville, Ill: Brooks Books, 2024).
  • Yovu, Peter. shine shadow. (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press 2024).
Honorable Mentions
  • Beary, Roberta. Carousel. (Ormskirk, United Kingdom: Snapshot Press, 2024).
  • Grant, Benedict. winterizing. (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2024).
  • Packer, Roland. no heroic measures. (Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2024).

Bruce H. Feingold

Touchstone Awards Chairperson and Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Coordinator

 

Bruce Feingold

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