Bookstories 33: Jeanne Jorgensen on “Getting the Word Out”
“The book that I am proudest of though because it simply had to be written is And So It Was, poems for my father, 1998 . . .
Survey Says . . . THF Dedicated YouTube Channel
The Haiku Foundation has its own dedicated YouTube channel, where you can watch all THF video material. Do you watch?
Book of the Week: 70 Sevens
Tombo was founder and president of Western World Haiku Society, and a prolific author. Many of her books were theme-based, as this one . . .
Bookstories 32: Don Baird’s Haiku Wisdom
“My desire was to write a haiku book that moved haiku from the limitation of poetry to the larger arena of literature . . .”
Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World—July 2015
In July, the Per Diem poem in the header will be a haiku from Denmark.
Survey Says . . . THF Video Archive
The THF Video Archive now contains all the films from HaikuLife, as well as interviews, readings, and the like. What do you think of that?
Book of the Week: a mouse pours out
Lee Gurga edited Modern Haiku but he is best known as a poet. This earliest of his chapbooks, though modest, is in some ways still his most satisfying collection . . .
Bookstories 31: Mankh’s Haiku One-Breaths
“A friend suggested the pocket-size, which afterwards seemed so obvious I wondered why I didn't think of it . . .”
Survey Says . . . THF Publications
Do you have some ideas of what you'd like to see THF publish? Let us know your thoughts.
Book of the Week: Sun-Faced Haiku, Moon-Faced Haiku
Alan Gettis, a devotee of Zen and a practicing psychotherapist, produced 2 chapbooks in a similar format: translations of Japanese haiku, followed by original poems . . .
Bookstories 30: Djurdja Vukelic-Rozic’s Seven Windows
“In Croatia we had our stubborn haiku master—the Japanologist, mathematician and academic, Vladimir Devidé—and his books could be borrowed from libraries . . .”
Survey Says . . . Per Diem, THF Daily Haiku
Per Diem is our daily haiku, featuring work from poets around the world. How do you like this feature?
Book of the Week: River Stones
Garry Gay is a photographer, and his visual orientation strongly affects his way with haiku, well exhibited in this middle-period collection . . .
Bookstories 29: Zoe Savina’s The Enchantresses
“It was springtime when I had just cut off a rose protruding from an adjacent garden iron gate and pinned it onto my chest . . .”
Survey Says . . . THF Organization
We have tried to keep THF streamlined as possible, but we welcome your ideas of how we can make our organization work better.
Book of the Week: The Tree It Was
This volume takes as one of its themes the confrontation with illness and, in a larger sense, recovery from it, as well as from what is . . .
Bookstories 28: Philomene Kocher’s Singing in the Silo
“I chose to leave the poems in chronological order. I felt this would be the most telling way to show how my poetry has changed over the years, as well as how I have changed . . .”
Survey Says . . . International Haiku Poetry Day
International Haiku Poetry Day now features HaikuLife, our haiku film festival, and Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, along with local meetings.
Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World—June 2015
In June, the Per Diem poem in the header will be a haiku from Iran.
Book of the Week: Handful of Sand
Stanford M. Forrester is one of our most consistent voices, gentle and often lightly humorous tinged with melancholy . . .