Christopher Herold writes poems which reflect his active engagement with zen and meditation, and also his environment by the sea. This chapbook from Snapshot Press (2000) captures both of these areas of interest expertly. Snapshot Press declines to make this…
Deb Baker, Per Diem editor for August, has an affinity for the the art of the serendipitous, which she defines as poems of fate or chance leading to an unexpected course, for a moment, a day, or even a life.…
Jim Kacian has celebrated Haiku North America by creating a series of personal, themed, and illustrated chapbooks on a variety of topics, beginning in 2005 with this nautical offering (Red Moon Press). You can read the entire book in the…
The Haiku Foundation announces the second in our series of Field Notes: Explorations in Haiku is now available. To find out how a panel of invited writers responded to another intriguing question, go to Field Notes. To add your voice…
Kaneko and Richard are recipients of a 2012 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. See them all in the 2012 Touchstone Archives.
Laurie Stoelting’s beautiful paean to Mt. Tamalpais (tribe press, 2008) has drawn the attention of not only haiku poets, but naturalists, scientists, hikers, other poets, and just about everyone who has had a look at this book. You'll see why…
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…
Lee and Scott are recipients of a 2012 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. See them all in the 2012 Touchstone Archives.
William Hart is a poet from Kansas, but you’d never know it from his work, which is often richly exotic, as this beautiful 1991 collection from Timberline Press will attest. You can read the entire book in the THF Digital…
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…
Bob is a recipient of a 2012 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. See them all in the 2012 Touchstone Archives.
David Elliott’s work has a consistently quiet, confidential, grounded feel to it, from his earliest, as in this collection from AHA Press in 1992, to the present day. You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library. All…
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…
Steve is a recipient of a 2012 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award. See them all in the 2012 Touchstone Archives.
Penny Harter had a reputation and extensive publishing credentials in “long poetry” before she came to haiku in the 1970s. This collection, from From Here Press (1980), gives a flavor of her earliest work. You can read the entire book…
Tom Painting takes us On the Road for this month’s Per Diem. He writes: Walt Whitman may have said it best in his poem, Song of the Open Road: “ Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy,…
One of the Foundation's signal interests is education: in the general sense of elevating the discourse about haiku in the community and in the general public, but also in the specific sense of offering opportunities for teachers and students alike…
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…
Kieran is a recipient of a 2012 Touchstone Award for Individual Poems. See them all in the 2012 Touchstone Archives.
Sam Savage, before his acclaim as a novelist, tried his hand at numerous tasks, including letterpress printer and haiku poet. He set this first volume, from Hardscrabble Press in 1999, himself. You can read the entire book in the THF…