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Carol Montgomery wrote some of the most memorable senryu in the language, many of which appeared in this volume (Los Hombres Press, 1992), so it is disappointing that she has been absentee from the haiku world for more than a decade.

John Sheirer was a shooting star through the haiku sky in the late 1990s, focusing on the humorous aspects of life, and especially family relations. This volume (Riverstone Books, 1997) gives a goodly sampling of his major preoccupations in his…

Gloria Maxson was widely published in the journals of rhe 1970s, and this volume (Triton Press, 1976) captures the style of the poems of the time: nature-infused, three lined (and often stair-stepped), aiming-at-17-syllabled, punctuated and…

Nina Wicker’s oversize letterpress volume is a study of fragility and resiliency, and one of the handsomest haiku chapbooks ever produced, a scant 14 poems in two-color printing on subtly coordinated sheets. 24 pages, stab-bound

Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg was perhaps the most talented of the many Catholic nuns who have advocated haiku, especially in the 1970s and ’80s. Eulberg was particularly interested in people, as is evidenced by this attractive chapbook from wind chimes…

David Lloyd’s charming book (No Press, 1999) is dedicated to Raymond Roseliep but in fact was intended for his children and grandchildren. It’s a combination of haibun and haiku, all on the theme of the title.

David Burleigh has made a consistently strong argument for a longer (Irish) line and more nearly formal (Japanese) approach to English-language haiku through his own mellifluous poetry. These, handsomely self-published in 1992, are more evidence to…

Deborah Kolodji was a Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award Chapbook Contest Winner with this volume (Saki Press, 2004), which centers on the topography and features within a few hours’ drive of Los Angeles, and the people therein.
Includes an…

The collected haibun of American poet Hortensia Anderson.

Welcome to The Haiku Foundation’s World of Haiku. The following pages are dedicated to Brazilian haiku. Click the PDF links above to see a history of haiku in Brazil in both English and Portuguese, as well as a selection of Brazilian haiku.