Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World—April 2015
In April, the Per Diem poem in the header will be a haiku from Serbia.
Book of the Week: High Kukus
What did the 1960s know of haiku? One thing it knew wasn’t to take it too seriously . . .
Bookstories 18: Mike Dillon’s the road behind
“ . . .a faint line, thick as a narrow path or road, ran down the middle of an olive-gray color field---a remarkable intuitive leap . . .”
Survey Says . . . Troutswirl, the THF Blog
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: aprés bath
Wanda Cook creates beautiful, hand-crafted poetic offerings in a variety of shapes, most of which defy representative reproduction in two dimensions . . .
Bookstories 17: John Stevenson’s Live Again
“. . . the poems and haibun fell into order as if there had been a DNA code for this . . .”
Survey Says . . . THF Bibliography
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: afternoon stillness
Colin Blundell has a musical ear, which has had a profound effect on the poetry he produces . . .
Bookstories 16: Sabine Miller’s bee dance
“vince tripi was living in Novato, California, about a forty-minute drive from my rented cabin in Lagunitas . . .”
Survey Says . . . THF Touchstone Awards
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: When (Almost) Nothing Happens
To verb or not to verb, that is the question this brief primer bids us ask . . .
The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Committee Announces Its Shortlist for 2014
See who made the shortlist for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award.
Bookstories 15: William Ramsey’s “Drinking the Wine”
“My two haiku books grew out of a strong need to tap into my spiritual core . . .”
Book of the Week: Eyes of the Blossoms
Kristen Deming learned haiku from time spent in Japan and through contact with Japanese master Yatsuko Ishihara . . .
Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World—March 2015
In March, the Per Diem poem in the header will be a haiku from Brazil.
Bookstories 14: Polona Oblak’s “distant lightning”
Revision is the activating elixir for most good writing. See how Polona Oblak got her haiku to “pop” . . .
Book of the Week: Sixteen Haiku
Imagine selecting a mere 16 poems from a lifetime’s work---what would you choose? Here’s what Tokihiko Kusama chose . . .
THF Haiku App Expanded and Updated for Mobile Devices
The THF Haiku App now displays over 1500 haiku from poets around the globe, showing the range of topics and form characteristic of today’s haiku.