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.
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…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Bona M. Santos. Bona began writing and publishing haiku in 2017. She is a member of the Haiku Society of America (HSA), the Southern California Haiku Study Group (SCHSG), and the…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Christina Sng. A two-time Bram Stoker Award winning horror poet, she has won numerous prizes for her haiku, including the Jane Reichhold International Prize. She is the author of two haiku…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Scott Mason, author of The Wonder Code. This book won a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation as well as a Merit Award from the Haiku Society of America. Scott currently…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Ferris Gilli. She served as Associate Editor at The Heron's Nest for 18 years, and has won numerous prizes for her haiku and renku. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Bryan Rickert, co-editor of Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu and editor at The Living Senryu Anthology. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Bryan. In Advice for…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Brad Bennett, the current assistant haiku and senryu editor of Frogpond. Brad's first haiku collection, a drop of pond, won a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award from The Haiku Foundation in 2016.…
Recently, I attended a lovely Zoom meeting for beginners of haiku, hosted by the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. One of the topics that came up during the event was how different it is to write haiku than to write…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Susan Burch. Susan has won the first Golden Haiku Poetry Contest and earned a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems in 2018 for her haiku, "blood moon..." This poem also placed second…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview John Stevenson, longtime managing editor of The Heron's Nest and host of The Renku Sessions here at The Haiku Foundation. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, John. In Advice…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Chad Lee Robinson. His most recent collection of poetry, The Deep End of the Sky, won the 2014 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition and received second place in the Haiku…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Nicky Gutierrez, current facilitator of the Ohaio-ku Study Group. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Nicky. In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established haiku poets to share a…
This week, New to Haiku presents a portion of beginner's handout on haiku compiled by Terri L. French, board member of The Haiku Foundation and the co-editor of contemporary haibun online. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us, Terri! This…
Recently, I was organizing notes on my iPhone and ran across an early draft of a poem that I had written, complete with a list of publications that had rejected it. I love my most recent version of this science…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview John Hawkhead. John is currently working on his second collection of haiku; his first book of haiku, Small Shadows, was published in 2016. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us,…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Hifsa Ashraf. Her book, Her Fading Henna Tattoo, won honorable mentions in both the Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2020 and the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Awards for 2021.…
Four years ago, my family set out on a cross-country trip. As always, I took pictures of everything and anything: clouds, shadows, insects, signs. But, on this trip, I was also armed with the ability to think in haiku. I…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Réka Nyitrai. Her debut collection of haiku, While Dreaming Your Dreams, won a 2020 Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Réka. In Advice…
Are you brand-new to haiku? Want to write one but you have no idea where to even begin? Welcome to New to Haiku! This blog post is for you. Today, New to Haiku is pleased to welcome Jessica Tremblay, creator…