Haiku Maven

Dear Haiku Maven, I often hear about haiku contests after the deadline has passed. I find out about calls for submissions once the new journal or anthology is published. I don’t know why but I feel when it comes to…

Dear Haiku Maven, Let’s talk for a second about the words and tone an editor uses when rejecting a submission. A rejection can be an ego-bruising event for any artist, no matter the number of previous acceptances. Those who can…

Dear Haiku Maven, I write haiku in some other language than English and do some translations. While doing translations to English, it is not easy to keep the same original image so I change them slightly to make them more…

Dear Haiku Maven, A person I know is a haiku e-zine publisher and also a haiku poet. One or two times a year a special issue of the e-zine is published on a selected theme. For the past couple of…

Dear Haiku Maven, Recently a publisher accused me of something terrible on Twitter. She tweeted to over 1,000 of her followers that my widely-published haiku, which I had tweeted earlier that same day, was a déjà-ku. I am new to…

Dear Haiku Maven, I notice that increasingly one-line haiku poems are appearing in the journals. Modern Haiku had about a quarter of the poems in the one-line format in the last issue, whereas a decade ago Modern Haiku published almost…

Dear Haiku Maven, I am tired of editors who accept my haiku submission subject to a “slight revision.” I still remember a change from five years ago that I wish I had never accepted. The editor insisted I change “crows”…

Dear Haiku Maven, I was excited to see a call for submissions from a new publisher of haiku. That is, until I read some of their published work. The poems they are calling haiku are merely three line free verse.…

Dear Haiku Maven, Maybe you have met me in your travels. I live half the year in my parents' homeland and half the year in an English speaking country. Because of this I am fluent in English. Here is my…

Dear Haiku Maven, A haiku poet I admire keeps telling me my haiku is old-fashioned because I write 5-7-5 three line haiku and I always use a season word. That poet is starting to get on my nerves. Is it…

Dear Haiku Maven, I have been getting personal email on a weekly basis from a haiku master. In the email I am asked to order the latest book by this master haiku poet and am directed to a book-order link.…

Dear Haiku Maven, I have been told I am a glass-is-half-empty kind of person. I call it “being honest”. Recently a fellow-haiku poet offered a poem in a workshop setting. I did not hold back my comments. I told him…