Book of the Week: Beyond the Paper Lanterns
A powerful thematic volume from one of New Zealand's best and most beloved haiku poets, Cyril Childs.
Book of the Week: A Nameless Place
Joanne Morcom explores some of her deepest fears — and ours — in this haunted collection.
Book of the Week: Dark Leaves
Powerful thematic writing such as this is why Carol Dagenhart was considered one of the best haiku poets of her time.
Book of the Week: railriders
This brief book from Catherine Mair, one of the leaders of New Zealand haiku, explores the theme of the “Old West.”
Book of the Week: waiting in silence
This bilingual chapbook from Ion Codrescu features some of his remarkable and characteristic haiga as well.
Book of the Week: Between Hail Marys
This short themed book is from Adele Kenny, a haiku adept with more than four decades’ practice.
Book of the Week: the sweet potato sutra
A devotee of imo, Michael Fessler shows his considerable skills in haiku and haibun in this charming themed volume.
Book of the Week: Eyebrows of Geese
Miriam Sagan is a mainstream poet who early found a home in haiku, as this 1986 chapbooks attests.
Book of the Week: Zen Koanheads
John J. Dunphy explores the outliers of haiku but mostly supplies some good senryu in this recent volume.
Book of the Week: A Circle of Light
This tribute volume honors Doris Thurston as a mentor, but mostly as a poet.
Book of the Week: In and Out of Shadow
Carolyn Hall’s themed chapbook on autumn was an award winner, and it will be obvious why.
Book of the Week: The Wizard’s Rook
Brent Partridge, one of our longest tenured haiku poets, embarks on a 100-verse solo renga, a rarity.
Book of the Week: Mojave
This unique book is a response from August Bover, a Catalan poet, to a conversation with Gerald Vizenor, a Native American poet.
Book of the Week: Spirit Dance
Charles Easter explores a central issue for him in this volume of haibun, one of the earliest in English.
Book of the Week: A Piece of the Moon
Marje A. Dyck evokes two of her sustaining interests — the Canadian prairie and jazz — in this handsome volume.
Book of the Week: Catching the Light
John Elsberg and Eric Greinke revive the collaborative sequence, which has since caught fire in the haiku world.
Book of the Week: Found Haiku
And now for something completely different — Jianqing Zheng finds the haiku Eudora Welty interspersed in her fiction.
Book of the Week: Proposing
Jim Tipton has long cultivated his own voice in haiku, and it is in fine form in this strong recent volume.
Book of the Week: Switching Off The Shadows
Ruby Spriggs had a special feel for shadow and light, and this volume takes that subject for its departure point.
Book of the Week: Chalk Drawings
The tradition of collaborative verse is alive and well in haiku, as demonstrated here by Carolyne Rohrig and Marco Fraticelli.