Book of the Week: A New Resonance – Emerging Voices in English Language Haiku

In this 1999 anthology, the editors Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts present 300 haiku by 20 authors. In the Introduction, the editors write that despite their many differences, the authors “hold in common some things which recommend them to us: a clear eye; an ability to capture what they see accurately and with verve; a fondness for a brief form of poetry which they have found to be expressive and revelatory.”

Haiku from five of the poets include:

pebbled beach—
how carefully she chooses
her words
– Yu Chang

morning fog—
lifting an earflap
to judge the coyote howls
– Laura Young

zoo escape—
below the autumn sky
a lone green balloon
– Lee Giesecke

kicking stones
on the trail
the lump in my breast
– Carolyne Rohrig

redwoods
sopping up
the fog
– Brent Partridge

You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library and share your favorite poem from the book in the Comments section.

Do you have a chapbook published in 2015 or earlier that you would like featured as a Book of the Week? Contact us for details. Haiku featured in the Book of the Week Archive are selected by THF Digital Librarian Dan Campbell and are used with permission.