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"wind flow" edited by Raffael de Gruttola, Judson Evans, & Karen Klein with Sumi-e artwork and cover by Kaji Aso is The Haiku Foundation's (THF) Book of the Week for May 20, 2024.

20May 2024

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19May 2024

New to Haiku

New to Haiku: Advice for Beginners–Kati Mohr

Today at New to Haiku, let's welcome Kati Mohr. Kati recently won a 2023 Touchstone Award…

18May 2024

THF Monthly Kukai

THF Monthly Kukai Voting Ballot — May 2024

Vote for your favorites in the THF Monthly Kukai . . .

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Delve into the history of English-language haiku in the most direct way possible: by reading its poets. The Book-of-the-Week series presents a new, digitized version of a book of haiku, recent or classic, drawn from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library and other holdings. Host: our digital librarian, Dan Campbell.

EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration

The EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration is the world’s largest annual collaborative poem. It's part of International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17), and plays out like an extended renku — the literary drinking game of feudal Japan. We look forward to your participation! Host: Jim Kacian. View the EarthRise Archive.

Education Resources

There’s so much to learn about haiku — and not just for students. Visit The Haiku Foundation’s Education Wall, where you’ll find lesson plans and educational tools for teachers and students alike. All age groups and experience levels will find something of interest to sharpen their approach to this surprisingly complex genre.

Haiga Galleries

Each month The Haiku Foundation will add a new gallery of work devoted to haiga and related visual arts, and feature it on the THF site. You will find traditional approaches to haiga alongside more current trends like photo haiku. Host: Jim Kacian.

Haiku Bridges

Haiku Bridges is a periodic feature designed to encourage and communicate significant haiku outreach initiatives to new audiences. Host: Scott Mason.

Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay

Every couple weeks we will share Haiku Comics of Hamilton Bay, created by Monica Plant, inspired by her favored Canadian landscape and terrain. Monica is a Hamilton (Ontario, Canada)-based artist, writer, and naturalist, a self-described contemplative who “moves at a slow enough pace to see and hear things.” Host: Monica Plant

Haiku Dialogue

Haiku Dialogue offers a triweekly prompt for practicing your haiku. Posts appear each Wednesday with a prompt or a selection of poems from a previous week. Comments are encouraged — join in the discussion! Host: kjmunro.

Haiku for Parkinson's

Using the transformative lens of haiku, we aim to help negotiate the challenges of Parkinson's and improve quality of life. Hosted by Stella Pierides.

Haiku of the Day

Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem) is one of our most popular offerings. Guest editors are invited to create thematic galleries of poems which are then prominently featured on the site and are gathered into the Haiku of the Day Archive. Host: Lynne Jambor.

Haiku Registry

The Haiku Registry offers brief curriculum vitae for haiku poets from around the world. Host: Marta Chocilowska.

HaikuLife

HaikuLife is The Haiku Foundation’s haiku film festival, the only event like it in the world — the Sundance of Haiku. Each year auteurs from around the world submit films, from brief video haiga to feature length treatments, all based on and around haiku. Host: Jim Kacian.

Haikupedia

Haikupedia is the most ambitious haiku-centric resource ever attempted, The Haiku Foundation’s encyclopedia of haiku. Definitions, biographies, famous places and important books from around the world, we’ve got it all covered here in one place. View the Haikupedia site. Senior Editor: Charles Trumbull.

Juxtapositions

Juxtapositions, The Haiku Foundation’s journal of haiku research and scholarship, is the only vehicle of its kind dedicated to academic, peer-reviewed haiku research and criticism. MLA Standard. Indexed. Senior Editor: Ce Rosenow.

Librarian’s Cache

Librarian's Cache is an occasional series that features journals, videos, and other assets from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library and other holdings. Host: our digital librarian, Dan Campbell.

New to Haiku

A space specially designed for those of you just starting out on the journey of haiku. First things to read, study, look at and try yourselves, without judgment. We remember — we all start somewhere. Host: Julie Bloss Kelsey.

re:Virals

re:Virals is an interactive feature which offers commentary on selected haiku each week. The supplier of the best commentary each week gets to choose the next week’s poem. An updated version of Virals, an early interactive feature of THF. Host: Keith Evetts.

Renku Sessions

The Renku Sessions was created to offer a participatory activity that honors historical traditions while actively engaging contemporary practice. Poets participate in 12, 20 and 36-link renku, moderated by the leading Western sabaki of our day. Host: John Stevenson. See our Archive of Completed Renku.

Second Life

Second Life: Japanese Haiku in Translation presents, every couple weeks, an original Japanese poem in English translation, with literal and literary versions, along with field notes, for a complete immersion into the poem. Host: Dan Bornstein

THF Monthly Kukai

The THF Monthly Kukai invites poets from around the world to craft a poem to the month’s theme, and then to assess the roster of poems by others on that theme. Winning poems become part of the THF Monthly Kukai Archive. Winners also receive books of their choice from the THF Hard Copy Library extra copies catalog. Host: Tom Borkowski.

Touchstone Awards

In 2012 The Haiku Foundation created the Touchstone Awards — the highest awards in the field — to reward excellence and innovation in the genre. Award categories are best individual haiku/senryu, best individual haibun, and best haiku publications. Overview: THF Touchstone Awards | Host: Bruce Feingold.

The MISSION of The Haiku Foundation is threefold:

to ARCHIVE our first century of English-language haiku

Haiku Archives

to EXPAND possibilities for our second century

Haiku Outside the Box

to SEEK active exchange with other haiku languages and cultures around the world

Haiku Around the World