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Jeff Winke has been writing and editing strong haiku for four decades. This attractive chapbook finds him at his robust best, with his special feel for environments well on display.

21 haiku, with a brief bio of the author. 16 pages,…

25 haiku.

Jeff Witkin left only two books of haiku before leaving haiku, but they made their mark. This is the earlier, from 1997. 20 pages, saddle-stapled, softcover

Ruth Yarrow is a naturalist and activist, and her passion for her vocations can be discovered even in her earliest work, such as this small volume from 1981.

18 haiku, illustrated by the author.

Peter Yovu, who has come to be identified with cutting-edge haiku, began, as many of us did, in a more traditional vein. A winner of the Virgil Hutton Chapbook Contest 2005; paperback, 36 pages.

Nick Avis is one of our most gifted visual poets, and has a special penchant for love poems (not so common in literary haiku as one might suppose). This elegant small book combines these interests in a striking fashion.
31 love haiku .

Randy Brooks has spent his whole life in the midwest, and the rhythms and themes of farming and broad vistas informs his best work. This early chapbook (1981) is from his own HIGH/COO PRESS, predecessor to Brooks Books.
Brooks dedicates this, his…

Kirsty Karkow writes evocatively of her adopted home in Maine, but so tellingly that people from anywhere might identify with them. This volume can be appreciated anywhere there is field and stream, sea and sunlight.

58 haiku, tanka and sijo, …

Yvonne Cabalona brings a familial sensibility to this 2010 collection grounded in the quotidian and the relational, gardening and childhood and the space between.

30 haiku.

Mike Chasty’s thematic chapbook embraces a topic that concerns us all, and that hasn’t become less pressing since he essayed it. It would be interesting to test his hypothesis (back cover) but we’ve never known a moment that might act as a control.…

Don Eulert, one of the founding editors of English-language haiku'’s first journal, American Haiku, teaches psychology to aspiring doctors using haiku (see his interview on this site). Field is his most significant book, from AHA Books (1998).

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