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Steve Sanfield compiled this book from gleanings from his regular contributions over eight years to The Mountain Messenger, California's oldest weekly newspaper.

48 haiku.

Gerald Vizenor is the best-known Native American proponent of English-language haiku. This was his first full-length book, its original version being released in 1964 (Callimachus Press).

116 haiku, arranged into seasons. With an introduction by…

Phyllis Walsh was an early advocate of viewing haiku in the context of other forms of short poetry, and this charming chapbook from 1993 (Hummingbird Press) is one of the few published haiku sequences in English.
32 pages, stab-bound, with 20 haiku,…

Kristine Young ’s beautiful thematic volume (Baka Press, 1979) is one of the first books of sequential haibun in the
language, making for an instructive and compelling reading experience. paperback, 24 pages

Haiku as social commentary: this innovative book appeared, without attribution, at Haiku North America in New York in 2003. It’s message has become only more urgent in the decade that has followed.

Lorin Ford’s first book “moves easily between human and natural worlds, most often seamlessly blending the two in an ideal haiku balance. Naturalist and poet, she takes me to a place where day-to-day existence can be as harsh and dangerous as it is…

Michael Dudley and Dorothy Howard took turns contributing to this lively 36 step renku from October, 1990 until July, 1993 (when we did these things by snail mail!), then published the results with Dorothy’s seminal publishing house, proof press.

Robert Gibson’s moody poems are nicely attuned to his moody subject, the fishing village of Westport on the Washington coast, threatened by gentrification and loss of its traditional way of life.

Jeff Witkin’s best-known work appeared in this strong collection, self-published in 1996, produced in a letterpress edition, One of Swamp Press’s finest productions. 36 pages, stab-bound softcover with paper sleeve

Jim Kacian travels to the old country for the funeral of a friend's father and discovers what of himself still belongs to the old ways in this 2006 Red Moon Press offering of haibun and haiku.