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Haiku Harvest 2000–2006 brings together seven years of international haiku writing, offering a fascinating glimpse into a tradition that embraces close observation, personal experience, humour, social realities and experimentation in English.

Today at New to Haiku, let’s welcome Melissa Allen. She is the current editor of Password: the journal of very…

Radhamani Sarma—a melody of the sweet past: commentaries on “end of summer – the sound of the waves in my conch” by Geethanjali Rajan

An unforeseen turn.

meditation – long list

THF Roving Ambassador Roberta Beary visits the British Isles in late summer 2026 . . .

You can still participate in the THF Monthly Kukai . . .

Shasei was never the endpoint — it was Shiki’s first step toward makoto. Guest editor Adam Graham traces Shiki’s overlooked three-stage theory to its unfinished, contemporary conclusion and asks what a truly contemporary makoto haiku would require.

Ravi Kiran’s seasoned with salt brings together haiku shaped by rivers, footprints, flowers, birds and small creatures. The poems find unexpected connections between environmental change, human experience and the details of everyday life.

Kavita Ratna – go with the flow: commentaries on “robin on the fence—/are you the same bird I saw/when I was five?” by Robert Lowes

Nominate your favorite new collection for a Touchstone!

The mid-point.