Touchstone 2012: Aubrie Cox
Aubrie is a recipient of a 2012 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. See them all in the 2012 Touchstone Archives.
Book of the Week: A Bowl of Sloes
David Cobb is the doyen of British haiku, and co-founder of the British Haiku Society. This work finds him in typical top form, from Snapshot Press in 2000. Snapshot Press declines to make this book available to The Haiku Foundation…
THF Reports: National Haiku Poetry Day in Washington DC
Check out the celebration of NHPD in the nation's capital, and then read about the way other people around the country enjoyed the event.
Survey says . . . THF Fundraising
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to…
Touchstone 2012: Melissa Allen
Melissa is a recipient of a 2012 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. See them all in the 2012 Touchstone Archives.
Book of the Week: off and on rain
Gary Hotham has worked several recurrent images in his 4-decade history engaging English-language haiku. Here is some of his earliest work (1978, High/Coo Press). You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library. All haiku in the Book…
Survey says . . . THF Forums
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to…
Per Diem for May: Look to the Sky!
Gene Murtha is our Guest Editor for Per Diem in May. Along with being a haiku poet, Gene is an avid birdwatcher, and his overlapping interests are on display in this month's Per Diem gallery. Gene writes: May is one…
Book of the Week: Autumn Wind in the Cracks
Tom Clausen not only hosts this feature, but has long worked in the genre himself. Some early work can be found here, in a self-published chapbook dating to 1994. You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.…
Survey says . . . Education
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to…
Book of the Week: row of pine
Jeff Winke has been writing and editing strong haiku for four decades. This attractive chapbook, from Distant Thunder Press in 1988, finds him at his robust best, with his special feel for environments well on display. You can read the…
Happy National Haiku Poetry Day 2013!
Hi All: It’s our special day, and I hope you all have an opportunity to celebrate the fact in some way: by writing and sharing haiku, or supporting your local NHPD event, or by enjoying the 2013 HaikuNow! Contest Results,…
Survey says . . . THF Digital Library
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to…
Book of the Week: Lull before dark
Caroline Gourlay is one of the UK’s strongest haiku voices. This attractive book, from Brooks Books in 2005, shows her in her most lyrical and distinctive mode. Snapshot Press declines to make this book available to The Haiku Foundation Digital…
Survey says . . . THF Contests
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to…
Book of the Week: The Tree As It Is
Bernard Lionel Einbond was a charter member of the Haiku Society of America, and won the Japan Air Lines Contest in 1989 with a poem that legitimized the English-language haiku enterprise to many in Japan and elsewhere. This 2000 volume…
Survey says . . . Book of the Week
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to…
Book of the Week: Chrysanthemum Love
Fay Aoyagi’s first collection of haiku, from her own Blue Willow Press in 2003, was like a breath of fresh air, mingling wafts of old and modern Japan among the zephyrs of Northern California. You can read the entire book…
Per Diem for April: Between the Words, Beyond the Senses
Christopher Patchel has come down with a case of 'sehnsucht.' He writes: The German word sehnsucht [zane-zuhkt] has no adequate equivalent in other languages, though the feeling it attempts to name is universal. 'Longing' or 'yearning' is the closest English…
Final Call for the 2013 HaikuNow! Contest
We’re into the home stretch for this year’s HaikuNow! contest. You have only until midnight tonight (eastern daylight time) to submit your poems in the Traditional, Contemporary and Innovative categories. Once submissions close, poems will be gathered and sent (anonymously)…