New to Haiku is pleased to interview M. Shane Pruett. An internationally award-winning haiku poet, Shane recently joined the team at Poetry Pea Journal as a haibun editor. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Shane! In Advice for…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Jim Kacian, founder and president of The Haiku Foundation. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Jim! In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established haiku poets to share a bit about…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Vandana Parashar. Her debut e-chapbook, I Am, was published by Title IX Press in 2019, and her haiku was shortlisted for the 2020 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems. She is currently part of…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Lucia Cardillo. Her haiku have appeared in numerous publications and contests, including The Mainichi Haiku in English: Best of 2017. She won first place in the Italian haiku competition Gustavo Pece in 2018.…
New to Haiku is pleased to interview Lori A Minor, founder and editor of #FemkuMag and ubu.: small absurdist poems. Lori is also the co-founder and co-editor of Otoroshi Journal, along with Joshua Gage. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey…
Happy 2022! As our first post of the new year, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Deborah P Kolodji. A leader in both English-language haiku and science fiction short-form poetry, she is the California Regional Coordinator for the Haiku…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Bona M. Santos. Bona began writing and publishing haiku in 2017. She is a member of the Haiku Society of America (HSA), the Southern California Haiku Study Group (SCHSG), and the…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Christina Sng. A two-time Bram Stoker Award winning horror poet, she has won numerous prizes for her haiku, including the Jane Reichhold International Prize. She is the author of two haiku…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Scott Mason, author of The Wonder Code. This book won a Touchstone Award from The Haiku Foundation as well as a Merit Award from the Haiku Society of America. Scott currently…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Ferris Gilli. She served as Associate Editor at The Heron's Nest for 18 years, and has won numerous prizes for her haiku and renku. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Bryan Rickert, co-editor of Failed Haiku - A Journal of English Senryu and editor at The Living Senryu Anthology. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Bryan. In Advice for…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Brad Bennett, the current assistant haiku and senryu editor of Frogpond. Brad's first haiku collection, a drop of pond, won a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award from The Haiku Foundation in 2016.…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Susan Burch. Susan has won the first Golden Haiku Poetry Contest and earned a Touchstone Award for Individual Poems in 2018 for her haiku, "blood moon..." This poem also placed second…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview John Stevenson, longtime managing editor of The Heron's Nest and host of The Renku Sessions here at The Haiku Foundation. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, John. In Advice…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Chad Lee Robinson. His most recent collection of poetry, The Deep End of the Sky, won the 2014 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition and received second place in the Haiku…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Nicky Gutierrez, current facilitator of the Ohaio-ku Study Group. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Nicky. In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established haiku poets to share a…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview John Hawkhead. John is currently working on his second collection of haiku; his first book of haiku, Small Shadows, was published in 2016. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us,…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Hifsa Ashraf. Her book, Her Fading Henna Tattoo, won honorable mentions in both the Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2020 and the Haiku Society of America's Merit Book Awards for 2021.…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Réka Nyitrai. Her debut collection of haiku, While Dreaming Your Dreams, won a 2020 Touchstone Award for Distinguished Books. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Réka. In Advice…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Jay Friedenberg, current president of the Haiku Society of America (HSA). You can learn more about HSA's programs for new haiku poets here. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us,…