A space specially designed for those of you just starting out on the journey of haiku. First things to read, study, look at and try yourselves, without judgment. We remember — we all start somewhere. Host: Julie Bloss Kelsey.
Today at New to Haiku, let's meet Mary White. A talented artist and poet, her haiku (and senryu, haiga & haibun) have appeared in cattails, hedgerow: a journal of small poems, Frogpond, The Heron’s Nest, Presence, Blithe Spirit, The Mainichi,…
So, you've written a haiku, edited it to the best of your ability, and you'd like to send it to a contest or a journal. Yet, somehow, you can't bring yourself to submit. Maybe you aren't able to recapture the…
For today's New to Haiku, I chose to reprint an article from the late James W. Hackett. These suggestions previously appeared in World Haiku Review, March 2002, Vol 2-1. (Older issues of WHR can be found here.) Hackett prepared an…
Today at New to Haiku, let's meet Anette Chaney. Anette is an active member of the haiku Twitter community where she posts as @chaneyanette. Her haiku have been published in Haiku in Action and Haiku Dialogue. Thanks for sharing your haiku…
Writers are often encouraged to engage in social media. Unfortunately, that’s where the advice usually stops. How do you determine which social media platform is right for you? My best advice is to try each of them out and choose…
Today at New to Haiku, let's meet Kat Lehmann. Kat is a founding co-editor of Whiptail: Journal of the Single-Line Poem and an associate editor at Sonic Boom. She is also the inventor of sudo-ku, a new experimental haiku form. Thanks for…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview award-winning haiku poet Roberta Beary, haibun editor of Modern Haiku and The Haiku Foundation's Roving Ambassador. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Roberta! In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established…
Recently, I had the pleasure of attending a talk about presenting tanka poetry to an audience given by Marilyn Shoemaker Hazelton, editor of red lights tanka journal, to the Fireflies Tanka Group. Her advice was spot-on for reading haiku to others…
Today at New to Haiku, I wanted to share this overview of The Haiku Foundation with you, in case you haven't already seen it. This video will guide you through what THF has to offer. (A written transcription of the…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview M. Shane Pruett. An internationally award-winning haiku poet, Shane recently joined the team at Poetry Pea Journal as a haibun editor. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Shane! In Advice for…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Jim Kacian, founder and president of The Haiku Foundation. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Jim! In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established haiku poets to share a bit about…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Vandana Parashar. Her debut e-chapbook, I Am, was published by Title IX Press in 2019, and her haiku was shortlisted for the 2020 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. She is currently part of…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Lucia Cardillo. Her haiku have appeared in numerous publications and contests, including The Mainichi Haiku in English: Best of 2017. She won first place in the Italian haiku competition Gustavo Pece in 2018.…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Rowan Beckett, founder and editor of #FemkuMag and ubu.: small absurdist poems. They are also the co-founder and co-editor of Otoroshi Journal, along with Joshua Gage. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with…
One of the things that can be overwhelming as a new English-language haiku poet is trying to navigate the wealth of educational information out there. Even The Haiku Foundation can seem overwhelmingly large at first. One of my goals at…
Happy 2022! As our first post of the new year, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Deborah P Kolodji. A leader in both English-language haiku and science fiction short-form poetry, she is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku…
About a year ago, I recorded myself speaking about science fiction haiku (or scifaiku) for THF's new Haiku Outside of the Box. I've included that video, along with a transcript of my short speech, below. Some of you may have…
It's hard to believe that it's been a year since I started presenting weekly New to Haiku blog posts. My thanks to everyone who has helped me with this column -- from brainstorming ideas, to helping me create content and…
It's the holiday season, and I hope that you and yours are doing well during these difficult and crazy pandemic times. I was thinking today about the gift of haiku and what it means to me. I thought that I…
Once you begin your haiku journey, sooner or later you will experience déjà-ku. What is déjà-ku? Michael Dylan Welch, who coined the term, has this to say on his website, Graceguts, in an article entitled “An Introduction to Déjà-ku”: “[Déjà-ku…