Book of the Week: seasoned with salt by Ravi Kiran
Ravi Kiran’s seasoned with salt brings together haiku shaped by rivers, footprints, flowers, birds and small creatures. The poems find unexpected connections between environmental change, human experience and the details of everyday life.
Penny Harter
on the sidewalk beside the school playground the mothers’ cigarette butts — Penny Harter
Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
endless rains . . . an empty bus returns to school — Emmanuel Jessie Kalusian
re:Virals 571
Kavita Ratna - go with the flow: commentaries on "robin on the fence—/are you the same bird I saw/when I was five?" by Robert Lowes
Nominate Your Favorite Book for a 2026 Touchstone Award
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The newest Haiku Foundation interactive feature is haiku::photo, curated by internationally renowned photographer M.H. Rubin.
THF Haiga Galleries: Haiga of Pamela A. Babusci
Pamela A. Babusci is an award-winning haiku/tanka and haiga artist for whom poetry and art are an integral part of her existence . . .
Moon and Finger 14 – Simile Part 1
Simile has long been treated with suspicion in English-language haiku. But what if the very quality that makes it seem less immediate than metaphor is also what gives it its particular power? In Part I, we explore simile as a buffer: a way of preserving distance, sustaining tension, and shaping perception.
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Book of the Week – one-line twos by Kala Ramesh & Marlene Mountain
Written across continents, one-line twos brings together Kala Ramesh and Marlene Mountain in an inventive collaboration of alternating one-line haiku. The collection demonstrates how a single unbroken line can open multiple possibilities of rhythm, meaning, and shared poetic discovery.