Del Doughty’s touching chapbook was one of the winners of the Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award for 1999-2000 (Saki Press). This short-lived project actually brought several of the best chapbooks of the turn of the century into being, including…
LeRoy Gorman has published scores of haiku, most often in small chapbooks like this one. His piquant observations and verbal dexterity mark him as one of the best practitioners of the genre of our time.
James Hackett was a serious practitioner and theoretician of the English-language haiku, but he believed it was best
received with a child-like mind. Here is an actual children’s book on a favorite topic from 1968 (Japan Publications).
Virgil Hutton wrote haiku for the last couple decades of his life, and his legacy was preserved to a degree by the chapbook contest organized in his name by his wife Lenore. This Saki Press volume (1998) was issued posthumously.
51 haiku, with an…