Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2021
The best of the best books of and about haiku published in 2020
Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2020
The best of the best books of and about haiku published in 2020
Creative Blooms 18: Tsugawa Eriko
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 17: Remystification (Part 3) — “Haiku is for Freedom”
Check out Part 3 of Richard Gilbert's exploration of Remystification in haiku . . .
Creative Blooms 16: Remystification (Part 2) — “The Cosmopolitan Haiku”
“Adorno used to say, ‘Intolerance of ambiguity is the sign of an authoritarian personality.' . . . "
Creative Blooms 15: Remystification (Part 1) — “Haiku Poem, Haiku Mind”
“Becoming what you are presupposes that you do not have the slightest idea what you are.” — Nietzsche (1888) Remystification, a term introduced in Poetry as Consciousness (2018), indicates a contemplation of open-mindedness preliminary to analyses of haiku.[1. In Gilbert,…
Creative Blooms 14: On Animal Rhetoric (Reconnecting)
From Animal Presences, by James Hillman, “A Correspondence with John Stockwell” John Stockwell: In several of your books you have characterized the turn to the East, the return to the land, the return to the primitive, and the turn to…
Presents of Mind
Jim Kacian's book of haiku, Presence of Mind is the first scholarly translation of an English language haijin into Japanese,
Creative Blooms 12: Satō Ayaka (Part 2)
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Creative Blooms 11: Satō Ayaka (Part 1)
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
HaikuLife 2020 Reprised: Lit Candles
Enjoy the offerings of the HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival a second time . . .
Creative Blooms 9: Tanaka Ami (Part 2)
More of a first taste of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
HaikuLife 2020 Reprised: Haiku Poem, Haiku Mind
Enjoy a second viewing of the HaikuLife 2020 films . . .
Creative Blooms 8: Tanaka Ami (Part 1)
A first translation into English of an up and coming poet from Japan . . .
Richard Gilbert et al. — Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Winner 2019
Richard Gilbert, Ito Yuki, David Ostman, Masahiro Hori, Koun Franz, Tracy Franz, and Kanemitsu Takeyoshi are the recipients of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2019.
Touchstone Distinguished Books Awards for 2019
The best of the best books of and about haiku published in 2019 . . .
Creative Blooms 7: Surprise of the In-Between
Haiku as the perfect expression of in-betweenness . . .