The Librarian’s Cache – Stardust Haiku: Poetry With a Little Sparkle
Stardust Haiku is a monthly haiku journal published by Valentina Ranaldi-Adams.
Book of the Week: The River’s Edge: A Collection of Haiku by British Poet Annie Bachini
Annie is featured in a Haiku Foundation Poet Profile and lives in London, England.
Book of the Week: One or Two of a Kind: Collated by Jim Kacian
This book features some poets who are the first in their country to make their cultures aware of haiku.
Book of the Week: Renga 4×2 by British Poets Colin Blundell and Dick Pettit
This is a collection of renku by British poets Colin Blundell and Dick Pettit.
Book of the Week: 75 Haiku – A Collection of Haiku from Indian Poet Manu Kant
Many of Manu’s poems are observations about the lives of wastepickers.
Book of the Week: Undercurrents by Irish Poet Amanda Bell
Amanda Bell is an Irish poet, author, editor, and mentor.
Book of the Week: To Make a World: One Hundred Haiku and One Waka by James Liguri
James Luguri left home at the age of thirteen to enter a Carmelite community.
Book of the Week: Penguins/Pingviner: Haiku by Danish Poet Johannes S. H. Bjerg
Johannes Bjerg is from Denmark and writes, in both Danish and English.
The Librarian’s Cache – Monoku
This month’s feature highlights THF resources on monoku as a haiku form.
Book of the Week: My Own Rhythm: An Approach to Haiku by Ann Atwood
Ann is from California and has had a successful career as a photographer, poet and children’s author.
The Librarian’s Cache – Sommergras: A quarterly journal by the German Haiku Society
Sommergras is a quarterly journal by the German Haiku Society
Book of the Week: Mount Gassan’s Slope: Haiku, Senryu and Sumi-e by Ann Newell
Ann Newell offers us her sparse, deliberate haiku and powerful sumi-e drawings.
The Librarian’s Cache – Haiku as Therapy
Below are selections from the Digital Library that discuss haiku’s potential to promote psychological growth and understanding and improve mental health. The Role of Haiku in Poetry Therapy by George Swede - The Role of Haiku In Poetry Therapy is…
Book of the Week: Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Japanese Poet Matsuo Basho, in Translation by Jane Reichhold
The 17th-century Japanese haiku master Basho was born Matsuo Kinsaku near Kyoto, Japan.
Book of the Week: Because of a Seagull: A Book of Haiku by Gilles Fabre
Gilles Fabre started writing haiku in the mid 1990’s when he took a sabbatical break for a year to travel around the world.
Book of the Week: A Selection by H. F. Noyes of his Favorite Haiku, Volume 2
H.F. Noyes was a poet, editor, and psychotherapist.
Book of the Week: Heart and Bones: A Book of Haiku by Bob Boldman
“Bob Boldman has struck me as one of the most interesting and real haiku authors we have studied."
Book of the Week: Face of the Snail: A Collection of Haiku by American Poet Jimi Bernath
Jimi Bernath is a poet and essayist in Colorado and has been part of the Denver poetry scene since the early '70s,
Book of the Week: Bus Stop Haiku: The Urban Haiku of Brian Robertson
Brian Robertson has been writing haiku throughout the years and contemplating and learning at Buddhist monasteries.