News

For those interested in listening to poems read by their composers, as well as an analytical panel discussion on the poem, Poem Talk, hosted by Al Filreis, is an extremely engaging and educational blog to visit. There is already a…

Just a little info posting, but Ron Silliman, the judge of the 2008 William Carlos Williams Award who chose Roberta Beary's haiku collection, The Unworn Necklace, as a finalist, runs a diverse, and very popular, weblog devoted to links on…

The new issue of Modern Haiku, 40.2 (summer 2009) is now out. Their website has been updated with a sampling. Ordering and subscription info here.

The 1st Yamadera Bashō Memorial Museum English Haiku Contest has been announced. Here are the guidelines: - Only unpublished three-lined haiku poems written in English and containing a season word are acceptable. Each contestant is allowed to submit up to…

NO/ON: journal of the short poem No 7, formerly NOON, is now available. $10/£6/€8/¥1000 + $5/£2/€4/¥500 (postage) to Philip Rowland (Editor)           Minami Motomachi 4-49-506,                      Shinjuku-ku, Toyko 160-0012, Japan questions/inquiries: noonpress AT mac DOT com *Please note: there will be a…

James Kirkup April 23rd, 1918 - May 10th, 2009                             - Poet, Translator, Writer, Teacher                             - Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature                             - First President of the British Haiku Society                             - Poetry Advisor, Kō Haiku Magazine (Japan)  I switched off…

Commuters arriving at London's King’s Cross station are being invited to submit haiku-style poems on the subject of the "British Summer" from their mobile phones, using Twitter, the free social blogging site. The competition will run between Monday, May 18th,…

The new issue of Roadrunner (May 2009, IX:2) is now up.

The new issue of Simply Haiku (Summer 2009, vol 7 no 2) is now up.

Great Things in Small Beginnings Welcome to The Haiku Foundation. This project is the tangible evidence of three years’ thought and hundreds of conversations. The belief that haiku needed an organization such as this sprung up from a conversation with…

Welcome to troutswirl, the official blog for The Haiku Foundation. Since this is my first posting for troutswirl, I would like to share a number of my own personal wishes and goals for the blog, as well as my reasons…

We have established Juxtapositions, the first serious academic journal to place haiku in the forefront of literary study. Read More » .

For many years, Charles Trumbull, the editor of Modern Haiku, has been working toward a complete bibliography of works of and about haiku and related short-form poetry in English and other Western languages. The Haiku Foundation is happy to make…