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,…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Robert Epstein. He has edited 11 haiku anthologies; his most recent collection of haiku, Contemplating Nature: Pictures, Passages & Haiku, was published in 2021. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Robin Anna Smith (aka GRIX), a 2019 Touchstone Award recipient and co-editor at Sonic Boom and Yavanika Press. You can watch their recent stand-out presentation at the 2021 Haiku Society of America…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Joshua Gage, co-editor of Otoroshi Journal and the author of breaths and Origami Lilies. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Joshua. In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Djurdja (Đurđa) Vukelić Rožić. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Djurdja. In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established haiku poets to share a bit about themselves so…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Alan Summers, president of the United Haiku and Tanka Society, author of Does Fish-God Know, and founder of Call of the Page, where he teaches online classes on haiku and other…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Debbie Strange, author of A Year Unfolding: Haiku (Folded Word, 2017) and winner of the 2019 Sable Books International Women’s Haiku Book Contest Award for her book, The Language of Loss:…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Chuck Brickley, author of earthshine, and a panelist for The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Chuck. In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Ellen Compton, co-editor of Wishbone Moon and author of Gathering Dusk. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Ellen. In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established haiku poets to…
This week, New to Haiku completes our interview with Mike Rehling, co-editor and founder of Failed Haiku. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Mike. You can read the first part of this interview here. In Advice for Beginners…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Mike Rehling, co-editor and founder of Failed Haiku. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Mike. In Advice for Beginners posts, we ask established haiku poets to share a bit…
This week, New to Haiku is pleased to interview Julie Warther Schwerin, associate editor at The Heron's Nest and member of the Red Moon Anthology editorial team. Thanks for sharing your haiku journey with us, Julie. In Advice for Beginners…