Featured Content Archives - The Haiku Foundation

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Peter C. Forster — insert your own shiver: commentaries on "dawn walk / my daily shiver / at the dip in the road" by Cynthia Anderson

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Jonathan Epstein—our intimate kinship with all beings: comments on "broken Wedgwood / the bowerbird collects / another piece" by Gavin Austin

Book of the Week – Afriku: A book of haiku and senryu by Ghanaian poet Adjei Agyei-Baah

November 13, 2023
Dan Campbell
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Adjei is the inventor and champion of Afriku – an avant-garde haiku type that focuses on the unique images and settings of Africa.

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Maurice Nevile: enlisting the reader. Commentaries on "traffic jam / my small son asks / who made God" by Peggy Willis Lyles

Book of the Week – In the Wake of Silence: 208 Haiku by Klaus-Dieter Wirth

November 6, 2023
Dan Campbell
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Klaus-Dieter Wirth has been writing haiku for more than 40 years.

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Ann Smith and AI friend — nature and technology converge: commentaries on "rain drops / playing chopin / the AI" by Helga Stania

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Ashoka Weerakkody — an inspiring headline: commentaries on the reversed vertical poem: "roof of the world no room to brea th e" by Roland Packer.

Book of the Week – The Winter Garden by Jack Barry

October 23, 2023
Dan Campbell
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“In the case of haiku, Jack often has a pen and paper at the ready in his pockets. He is a dedicated gardener, banjo player and Vispassana meditator.”

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Sheila Barksdale — if it works... commentaries on "singing bowl/the room swept clean/of sorrow" by Sally Biggar

Book of the Week – Pilgrimage by Michael Dudley

October 16, 2023
Dan Campbell
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In a review of Pilgrimage, Jim Kacian writes – “These brief, evocative poems of pilgrimage by Michael Dudley both subtly and explicitly explore the natural world...

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Jonathan Epstein — the singular harmony of a shared meal. Commentaries on "pumpkin soup/the family's oneness/in slurps" by Aparna Pathak

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Lakshmi Iyer—caught in a world of desires: commentaries on "eternal life/even the cuckoo wants it/summer night" by Deborah A. Bennett

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Harriet Thistlethwaite — a bid for freedom: commentaries on "plein air painting--/I fill my brush/with the sky" by Carole MacRury

Book of the Week – Hidden River by Denis Garrison

September 25, 2023
Dan Campbell
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Denis M. Garrison was born in Iowa. He spent most of his childhood in Japan and his youth in Europe, North Africa, and the western Pacific.

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Chloe Chan — look closer and find something special: commentaries on "on the tip/of the bird's beak/a drop of rainbow" by Earl Livings

Book of the Week – Cricket Song: A Selection of Haiku by Ludmila Balabanova

September 18, 2023
Dan Campbell
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Born: in Novi Pazar, Bulgaria | Resides: Sofia, Bulgaria. Lecturer of Computer Engineering, writer of poetry, haiku and essays, Ph.D. dissertation titled “The Power of the Unsaid in the Poetic."