Book-of-the-Week

Book of the Week: a distant star

weiss-14Anita Sadler Weiss is a familiar name to those in the haiku world, not least for the annual Anita Sadler Weiss Memorial Haiku Award. Besides being a well-known poet in her own right, she was a long-term teacher of the genre, and this volume (JoAtwater Publications, 1997) is a selection from workshops she gave at the Renaissance Institute from 1995-7.

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Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by THF president THF president Jim Kacian, and are used with permission.


I pluck the strings
   a distant star trembles
     — Margaret Doyle

   arches of color
   across the sky
rainstorm
     — Beth McLeod

on the beach
alone
   with shadows
     — Mac McInvude

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