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Pamela Miller Ness is a former officer of the Haiku Society of America, and an accomplished haikai poet. Her later work is primarily in tanka, but this chapbook of haiku from 1997 displays her talent in that genre as well.

Bill Pauly was one of the first poets to explore the use of concrete poetry effects in English-language haiku, and never better than in this, his remarkable and prescient first chapbook.
74 haiku, with a brief bio of the author.

Edward Rielly wrote this meditative book partly in thrall to Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi, which he quotes and to which his poems respond.
9 haiku.

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.