• Troutswirl
    The blog of The Haiku Foundation, hosted by Scott Metz, and including features by Peter Yovu, David G. Lanoue, and others. Read More »
  • Haiku by Ruth Yarrow
    Haiku at its best can be a way into the environs and idea of wilderness. Read More »
  • Haiku by Wallace Stevens
    Is this haiku? Read More »
  • Haiku by Martin Shea
    Content in haiku has kept pace with the other literary arts, as this poem makes clear. Read More »
  • Marlene Mountain
    Virtually every haiku that becomes memorable breaks the “rules”. Read More »
  • Haiku by Paul Muldoon
    Haiku appeals to nearly everyone who takes the time to consider it. Read More »
  • Haiku by Sandra Simpson
    American is not the only English spoken in haiku. Read More »
  • JUXTA
    The first serious academic journal to place haiku in the forefront of literary study. Read More »
  • Haiku by Ken Jones
    Haiku, often thought of only as the minute and insignificant, can occasionally partake of the magnificent. Read More »
  • Haiga
    An online collection of some of the best haiga being produced today.
  • Hall of Fame
    The Haiku Foundation’s progress towards a facility dedicated solely to the creation and study of haiku. Read More »
  • Haiku by Michael McClure
    The Beats wrote novels, manifestos, epics, travel books—and haiku. Read More »
  • Digital Library
    Direct access from your computer to rare and seminal volumes in the haiku literature. Read More »
  • Kudos
    The Touchstone Awards, The Haiku Foundation’s Yearly Tributes. Read More »
  • Haiku by Dag Hammarskjold
    Dag Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations—and a haiku poet. Read More »
  • Haiku by Cor van den Heuvel
    Haiku is a three-line poem of 5, 7 and 5 syllables—except when it isn’t. Read More »
  • Haiku by Gunther Klinge
    This is one of the poems which convinced even the Japanese that haiku in English just might be possible. Read More »
  • Haiku by Patricia Donegan
    Haiku is not about Zen, but that doesn't mean you won’t find plenty of Zen in haiku. Read More »

Mission Statement

The Haiku Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose aim is to preserve and archive the accomplishments of our first century of haiku in English, and to provide resources for its expansion in our next. It is a volunteer, but not a membership, organization, that will seek to encourage the spread of haiku into mainstream culture through a series of programs and initiatives.

All other haiku groups—from journals to societies to conferences—have been created to help the individual poet realize his or her creative dream, be it education, publication or social contact. The Haiku Foundation does not follow this model. THF instead is a series of projects organized not for poets per se, but for haiku itself. The realization of these projects will in due course help all haiku poets. Haiku has been very good to all the poets who have been fortunate to have found it. The Haiku Foundation is where poets go when they want to give back.

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