re:Virals 398
Scott Metz — more than an easy reading... Commentaries on his poem "the sound of the earth..." (which doesn't format well in a single line of UTF).
Book of the Week – The Water’s Night by Micheline Beaudry and translated by Mike Montreuil
Micheline Beaudry (born June 29, 1942, Montréal, Québec, Canada), retired social worker and haiku organizer and poet.
re:Virals 397
Beata Czeszejko — freedom is the big theme: commentaries on "old age home/the sudden urge/to climb a tree" by John Pappas
Haiku Comics of The Hamilton Bay — “cursive”
Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay is a biweekly comics feature from Monica Plant.
Book of the Week – Torii Haiku: Profane to a Sacred Life by David H. Rosen
David trained as a psychiatrist at the Langley Porter Institute in San Francisco.
re:Virals 396
Amoolya Kamalnath — a powerful monoku: commentaries on "moon shot the american way" by Helen Buckingham
Book of the Week: Deer Heart by Stephen Toft
His work has been included in international journals and anthologies.
re:Virals 395
Peter C. Forster: out of the ordinary... Commentaries on "a birch tree/a lichen/archipelago" by Warren Decker.
Book of the Week: Fiddle in the Floorboards by Ben Moeller-Gaa
Ben is a haiku poet from St. Louis and his work regularly appears in a number of haiku journals and anthologies.
Haiku Comics of The Hamilton Bay — “company”
Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay is a biweekly comics feature from Monica Plant.
re:Virals 394
Jonathan Epstein — breakthrough: commentaries on "An empty plate/Smashing it//Autumn clearer" by Masaya Saito.
Book of the Week: Dark Seeds Fallen by John Parsons
John Richard Parsons is an English writer and artist, noted for his prize-winning haiku poetry.
re:Virals 393
Patricia McGuire: detached observation, or a judgment? Commentaries on two strong verses, by Jerome Berglund and Michael Buckingham Gray.
Book of the Week: Jaiku: Haiku by Ray Scott
Ray Scott grew up in Woodstock, Ontario and started on his poetic journey in 1970.
Haiku Comics of The Hamilton Bay — “gather”
Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay is a biweekly comics feature from Monica Plant.
re:Virals 392
Harrison Lightwater—a haiku of considerable witchcraft: comments on "no one to talk to/ about old times—/oak galls falling" by Deborah A. Bennett
Book of the Week: Wayfarers: A Chapbook of Haiku by Canadian Poet Roland Packer
Roland lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is a musician in various roles and always has a haiku notebook close at hand.
re:Virals 391
Colette Kern: fixing the changing times: comments on "stamp album— /a page from a country/that no longer is" by Linda Papanicolaou
Book of the Week: Cough of a Sloth – Haiku by Canadian Poet Claudia Radmore
Claudia Radmore's lyric poetry has been published in Psychopoetica and Acta Victoriana.
re:Virals 390
Harrison Lightwater — nicely done: commentaries on "boundaries/her therapist/newly single too" by Reid Hepworth