Archive for January, 2010

Headsets addresses the psychological aspect of literary craft as it applies to haiku and senryu. Poetry elicits emotion and associations from readers by means of subjectively potent rhetorical devices. Classic psychotherapy questions will be asked: “What’s happening here?” and “How do you (might one) feel about that?” Readers are invited to examine their responses, and [...]

Jerome David Salinger
January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010

                                                                    The little girl on the plane
                                                                    Who turned her doll’s head around
                                                                    To look at me.

The above poem was written by J.D. Salinger for his second-most-famous-character, Seymour Glass, who, we are told by his brother, Buddy, in Seymour—An Introduction (pp 126-7), “probably loved the classical Japanese three-line, seventeen syllable [...]

Virals is a section in which one person choses a haiku by another person and comments on that haiku. Then the author of that haiku is invited to select a haiku by someone else and comment on that poem, and so on. For an introduction to this section, see Virals.

Viral 3.5

A Simple Swirl [...]

Periplum is a section that is devoted to 20th and 21st century haiku from around the world. Periplum is overseen by David G. Lanoue. For an introduction to this section, see Periplum.

Periplum #7: Saša Važić
BY David G. Lanoue

Some haiku—let’s call them “special haiku”—take hold in our minds and imaginations so deeply that we can never, [...]

The response to the Haiku Registry has been wonderful, and we are continuing to work with poets as new submissions are received. One suggestion for improving this segment of The Haiku Foundation site was to provide periodic updates so that returning visitors could find new poets added to the gallery more easily. We will probably [...]