Book of the Week: Convicts Shoot the Breeze: A Book of Prison Haiku by Johnny Baranski
Johnny spent time in prison after his arrests for nonviolent resistance to war and the Trident nuclear weapon system.
Book of the Week: Haiku Ikebana by Elena Malec, Accompanied by Photographs of Her Ikebana Arrangements
Elena Malec was born in Bucharest, Romania in 1954 and she started drawing at an early age.
Book of the Week: January Sun: A Collection of Haiku by Stanford M. Forrester
Stanford M. Forrester is a past president of the Haiku Society of America and founder and editor of bottle rockets.
Book of the Week: Winnows: A Collection of Haiku by Canadian Poet Maxianne Berger
Winnows contains haiku and senryu “plundered” from Herman Melville's Moby Dick.
Book of the Week: Yellow Light: Haiku by Jack Galmitz with an introduction by Brendan Slater
Jack Galmitz was born in New York City in 1951. His poems, haiku and free verse, have appeared in publications worldwide.
Book of the Week: Tossed Pebbles: A Collection of Haiku and Photo Haiku by Roderick J. Stewart (aka Roderick Ayres).
Roderick writes: “For me the haiku and its relationship to my nature photographs is the best way to express the beauty of life..."
Book of the Week: Dewdrops on the Weeds: A Collection of Haiku by Bulgarian Poet Ludmila Balabanova
She has published nine collections of poetry and received two Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards.
Book of the Week: Scaring Crow: A Collection of Haiku by Ghanaian Poet Adjei Agyei-Baah
Adjei Agyei-Baah is the the co-founder of the Africa Haiku Network and The Mamba.
Book of the Week: bug-eyed & bird-brained by Rick Clark with Sumi illustrations by Fumiko Kimura
Rick Clark is a poet, editor, and educator who has also dabbled in classical violin, birds, filmmaking, photography, Zen, and yoga.
Book of the Week: Mlijecnom Stazom (Down the Milky Way): A Book of Haiku by Dejan Pavlinović in Croatian and English
Dejan Pavlinović (born January 30, 1968) is a Croatian haiku poet and a graduate in English and German languages and literature.
Book of the Week: The River’s Edge: A Collection of Haiku by British Poet Annie Bachini
Annie is featured in a Haiku Foundation Poet Profile and lives in London, England.
Book of the Week: One or Two of a Kind: Collated by Jim Kacian
This book features some poets who are the first in their country to make their cultures aware of haiku.
Book of the Week: Renga 4×2 by British Poets Colin Blundell and Dick Pettit
This is a collection of renku by British poets Colin Blundell and Dick Pettit.
Book of the Week: 75 Haiku – A Collection of Haiku from Indian Poet Manu Kant
Many of Manu’s poems are observations about the lives of wastepickers.
Book of the Week: Undercurrents by Irish Poet Amanda Bell
Amanda Bell is an Irish poet, author, editor, and mentor.
Book of the Week: To Make a World: One Hundred Haiku and One Waka by James Liguri
James Luguri left home at the age of thirteen to enter a Carmelite community.
Book of the Week: Penguins/Pingviner: Haiku by Danish Poet Johannes S. H. Bjerg
Johannes Bjerg is from Denmark and writes, in both Danish and English.
Book of the Week: My Own Rhythm: An Approach to Haiku by Ann Atwood
Ann is from California and has had a successful career as a photographer, poet and children’s author.
Book of the Week: Mount Gassan’s Slope: Haiku, Senryu and Sumi-e by Ann Newell
Ann Newell offers us her sparse, deliberate haiku and powerful sumi-e drawings.
Book of the Week: Bashō: The Complete Haiku of Japanese Poet Matsuo Basho, in Translation by Jane Reichhold
The 17th-century Japanese haiku master Basho was born Matsuo Kinsaku near Kyoto, Japan.