Jeff Witkin’s first volume, self-published in 1996 and beautifully produced by Swamp Press, evinces a plangent and keening voice that no other haiku poet has quite matched in English. You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library.…
Fishing is one of our oldest pursuits, a source of sustenance and sanity. It has a significant literary history as well, as one of our first great prose stylists, Izaak Walton, in his Compleat Angler, supplied us with lure and…
Robert Gibson’s moody poems (Holly House Publications, 2002) are nicely attuned to his moody subject, the fishing village of Westport on the Washington coast, threatened by gentrification and loss of its traditional way of life. You can read the entire…
Michael Dudley and Dorothy Howard took turns contributing to this lively renku from 1993 to 1995 (when we did these things by snailmail!), then published the results with Dorothy’s seminal publishing house, proof press. You can read the entire book…
The first issue of Juxtapositions was released 1 May 2015 and can be accessed here. The Editors are putting out this call for submissions of articles/chapters for the second issue. Juxtapositions is published under the imprint of The Haiku Foundation.…
Lorin Ford’s first book will make you feel as though you were visiting Australia, as her poems are laden with the evocative names of the local places and the native flora and fauna. From Post Pressed (2008), with cover art…
Haiku as social commentary: this innovative book appeared, without attribution, at Haiku North America in New York in 2003. It’s message has become only the more urgent in the decade that has followed. You can read the entire book in…
In 2002, Pulitzer Prize Winner Chris Hedges published War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning. He was excoriated for his callous approach to the subject. But when the dust cleared, we were left to ask ourselves if he wasn’t,…
Carmen Sterba was honored by having her work published in the distinguished Radish series of books by Wim Lofvers. This tiny volume, from 2002, features haiku from 4 season and especially flowers, birds and people. You can read the entire…
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…
Michael Ketchek’s poignant 2010 chapbook from Swamp Press featured fine letterpress in a bronze rectangular yet hexagonal shape with a dark blue inset circle that shifts at the top of each page from the cover and throughout the collection, which…
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…
Kirsty Karkow writes evocatively of her adopted home in Maine, but so tellingly that people from anywhere might identify with them. This volume, self-published in 2002, can be appreciated anywhere there is field and stream, sea and sunlight. You can…
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…
Max Verhart has been a champion of English-language haiku in Europe for more than two decades. This beautiful tiny chapbook (from Wim Lofver’s Radish series, 1999) gives the flavor of his early work. You can read the entire book in…
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…
It's not quite what you might think: Per Diem for July takes a look at a very specific technique utilized in world poetry throughout the ages, as guest editor Stewart C. Baker explains: List (or catalogue) poetry has been around…
James W. Hackett was a serious practitioner and theoretician of the English-language haiku, but he believed it was best received with a child-like mind. Here is an actual children’s book on a favorite topic from 1968 (Japan Publications). You can…
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…
anne mckay’s lyrical approach to form in haiku has had no equal, and nearly all her poems are instantly identifiable. Those contained here (wind chimes press, 1995) are characteristic, in her usual colorful vein. You can read the entire book…