Juxtapositions: English-Language Haiku’s Only Scholarly Journal

In the fall of 2009, when it was a very new organization, The Haiku Foundation posted this brief announcement:

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

It wasn’t true. Though we had aspirations and a team assembled, Juxta did not launch that year, or the year after, or the year after that.

Finally, however, in 2015, The Haiku Foundation produced its first issue, and now, eleven years later, Juxta has quietly become the bellwether of the field, the place where serious peer-reviewed haiku scholarship from around the world arrives to be noticed. During this time Juxta has forayed into science (three iterations of “Haiku and the Brain”, explorations of how we process information from language), semantics (such as Lacanian approaches to texts), history (the Haiku Persecution Incident in Japan is one such instance), biography (retrospectives and interviews) and much much more, along with the expected considerations of haiku history, aesthetics, technique, authors, and poems themselves. Juxta 12, in preparation, tackles the knotty issue of AI as it pertains to haiku, which of course opens up to the entire world.

During this time we have had scores of contributors, more than a dozen regular editorial board members, and two senior editors. Peter McDonald chaired the group from that inaugural issue in 2015 through Juxta 5, in our Plague Year. Since that point the helm has been womanned by Ce Rosenow.

Juxtapositions is a rich resource unlike any other in the world, and we recommend it to you to flesh out your knowledge of haiku beyond the history of its poems. It is a rich panoply of various interests, and you are sure to find something to intrigue you, to startle you, to excite you, and to change your understanding of the genre. And all of this is free to you at the click of a mouse, right here. Dive into this rich offering and grow your own experience.