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The 2020 Haiku Foundation Fundraiser Concludes

organizationThe Haiku Foundation Fundraiser has come to an end for another year, and all of us here want to thank our many contributors for their generous and considerate donations to the cause. 2020 has been a most trying year for all of us on many levels, and The Haiku Foundation has tried to remain a constant and steadying force, offering a refuge against the strangeness and uncertainty that prevails without. Your generosity suggests to us that we have succeeded in providing our audience with some of the sustenance necessary to face the days and months ahead with equanimity.

Beginning in a few hours, The Haiku Foundation will go offline for a couple days to implement our new web design. When we return we hope you will find the new design simpler to navigate, better organized, more accommodating to mobile devices, and more aesthetically pleasing. Our original site became public in 2009, and we have accumulated many resources since then — the new design integrates them in an organized fashion, rather than simply aggregating them as was necessary on the fly. We look forward to your feedback once we return as we strive to make this your favored haiku resource on the web.

Our need to fund ourselves will continued, of course, even though our Fundraiser period has come to an end. To that end we will continue to offer our book incentive: any of the volumes below for a donation of $50 or more, and any 6 for $250 (please specify which you’re ordering — PayPal doesn’t seem to be including that information to us). Thank you for helping to keep The Haiku Foundation on a sound financial footing into a bright new 2021!


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JUXTASIX, The Haiku Foundation Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship

Donation level: $50
Media: 164 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
Juxtapositions is the only peer-reviewed academic journal of Western haiku study. Highlights of volume six include the latest installment on our ongoing research into “Haiku and the Brain”, and studies of two African-American haiku poets — Richard Wright (by Toru Kiuchi) and Etheridge Knight (by Tom Morgan), plus a selection of haiga from the THF Galleries selected by Stephen Addiss.


Gratitude in the Year of Covid-19, edited by Scott Mason

Donation level: $50
Media: 240 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
Gratitude in the Year of Covid-19 is an anthology along the lines of previous historical literary responses to pandemic wherein poets gather among friends and loved ones to tell tales and offer support. Scott Mason has gathered haibun from far and wide with the theme of gratitude in trying times.


at the top of the ferris wheel: Selected Haiku of Cor van den Heuvel

Donation level: $50
Media: 304 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
at the top of the ferris wheel gathers all of haiku pioneer Cor van den Heuvel’s Chant Press books, along with his own poems from Baseball Haiku and A Boy’s Seasons, and much previously uncollected work as well.


Montage: The Book, edited by Alan Burns

Donation level: $50
Media: 120 pages featuring more than 1100 haiku
Dimensions: 7″ x 10″
Montage began life as a weekly feature on The Haiku Foundation website in 2009, a series of comparative haiku galleries, thematically arranged, and featuring three poets per weekly topic. Still the largest and most beautiful anthology of English-language haiku ever assembled.


Raymond Roseliep: Man of Art Who Loved the Rose, by Donna Bauerly

Donation level: $50
Media: 304 pages
Dimensions: 5.5″ x 8.5″
Ten years in the making, Bauerly’s volume is the definitive biography of Father Raymond Roseliep: priest, educator, poet, private man, a painstaking study of the many elements that combined to form Roseliep’s complicated life and art.


Schwerelos Gleiten / Slipping through Water, haibun and haiku of Ruth Franke

Donation level: $50
Media: 120 pages
Dimensions: 7.75″ x 9.25″
Typical of Franke’s work, this volume involves the work of several artists for its effect. Celia Brown and David Cobb have translated the texts; Reinhard Stangl has provided a series of evocative paintings; Jim Kacian offers a suggestive introduction; and the publisher Wiesenberg Verlag has crafted an exquisite product.


JUXTAONE, The Haiku Foundation Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship

Donation level: $50
Media: 272 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
Juxtapositions is the only peer-reviewed academic journal of Western haiku study. Highlights of volume one include Ian Marshall’s “Jouissance among the Kire: A Lacanian Appproach to Haiku”, and Charles Trumbull’s “Shangri-La: James W. Hackett’s Life in Haiku”.


JUXTATWO, The Haiku Foundation Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship

Donation level: $50
Media: 296 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
Juxtapositions is the only peer-reviewed academic journal of Western haiku study. Highlights of volume two include Sandra Simpson’s “Snapshot: Haiku in the Great War”, and Judy Kendall’s “Jo Ha Kyu and Fu Bi Xing: Reading|Viewing Haiku”.


JUXTATHREE, The Haiku Foundation Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship

Donation level: $50
Media: 194 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
Juxtapositions is the only peer-reviewed academic journal of Western haiku study. Highlights of volume three include Stella Pierides’s et al. “Haiku and the Brain”, and Ce Rosenow & Maurice Hamington’s “A Careful Poetics”.


JUXTAFOUR, The Haiku Foundation Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship

Donation level: $50
Media: 180 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
Juxtapositions is the only peer-reviewed academic journal of Western haiku study. Highlights of volume four include Clayton Beach’s “The Pig and the Boar”, and Meta L. Schettler’s “Sonia Sanchez’s ‘magic/now’”.


JUXTAFIVE, The Haiku Foundation Journal of Haiku Research and Scholarship

Donation level: $50
Media: 246 pages
Dimensions: 6″ x 9″
Juxtapositions is the only peer-reviewed academic journal of Western haiku study. Highlights of volume five include Aubrie Cox Warner’s “Reparative Leanings of Haiku Aesthetics: Ways of Knowing and Reading in Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s A Dialogue on Love”, and Michael Dylan Welch’s “Poems Sbout Nothing: Learning Haiku from Antonio Porchia”.

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  1. I donated $50 to the fundraiser. Didn’t know at the time that buttons weren’t telling which book I wanted and that II was supposed specify the book I wanted.

    I donated via the “Montage” button and would like to receive my incentive copy.

    Janice Doppler, 120 Lovefield Street, Easthampton, MA. 01027

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