Bookstories 13: Ken Jones’ Bogcotton
“None of these pieces could have come forth were it not for the Muse, who tends to make her presence felt at awkward times . . . ”
Book of the Week: Closing the Circle
Alexis Rotella made her mark particularly in two realms, psychological haiku and senryu. Both are in evidence here . . .
Bookstories 12: Joanne Morcom’s A Nameless Place
“Probably my strongest influence was H.P. Lovecraft--if I could write poems of that nightmarish nature, I'd be happy.”
Book of the Week: A Sealed Jar of Mustard Seeds
Scott Metz has always wondered what haiku could. This is one of his answers . . .
Bookstories 11: John Parsons’ Choosing the Stone
“I was working at St Martin’s School of Art in London, teaching printmaking.”
Book of the Week: Crossing the Field
Our local environment is one of our most enduring inspirations, as Caroline Gourlay exhibits in Crossing the Field.
Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World—February 2015
In February, the Per Diem poem in the header will be a haiku from The Republic of the Philippines.
Bookstories 10: Naomi Beth Wakan’s Haiku—one breath poetry
The best way to learn something is to teach it---just what Naomi Wakan decided to do with Haiku--one-breath poetry.
Book of the Week: Between the heart-beats
Graham High’s painterly eye is much in evidence in , the new Book of the Week.
Bookstories 9: Christopher Herold’s In Other Words
“You got a lot of those?” he asked. “Sure,” I lied.
Book of the Week: A New Moon
Bruce Feingold covers turf from California to Maui to Tibet, and content from puppies to psychoanalysis. Find it all in A New Moon.
Bookstories 8: David Rosen’s Clouds and More Clouds
“We were walking in Forest Park and Joel said, ‘We ought to write a book together.‘”
Book of the Week: parnassus flowers
Robert Mainone has argued for the traditional approach to haiku—formal structure, nature content, and a sense of the ineffable—for 6 decades, and never more compellingly than in this beautiful self-published chapbook.
Bookstories 7: Wally Swist’s A Life in Words
"As a freshman at the University of New Haven in 1971, Wally Swist would pack up 200 mimeographed copies of his newest collection of poetry and haul them down to Washington Square in Manhattan."
Book of the Week: In Borrowed Shoes
Fay Aoyagi is a translator by day and a haiku poet by night, and we can find evidence of each of her halves borrowing from the other in this award-winning book.
Bookstories 6: Cherie Hunter Day’s The Horse with One Blue Eye
"In autumn the Santa Ana winds blow from the desert and dry the already parched ground, turning every blade and twig to tinder."
Light and Dark Redux
Read four good haiku that we could not display as part of the Per Diem Light & Dark collection from last December.
Book of the Week: Seaside Moon
Seaside Moon by Deborah Kolodji centers on the topography and features within a few hours’ drive of Los Angeles.
Per Diem: Daily Haiku from Around the World
The Per Diem haiku in the header is now part of World of Haiku, a new project featuring poems from a different country each month.
THF Web Redesign for 2015
The Haiku Foundation website is getting an overhaul. Beginning very early December 28, the Foundation site will be down as we put our new look into place. This could take as long as 3 days--that is, until the end of…