Author Archive

Call for Submissions to the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards for 2010

The Award
The Haiku Foundation announces the creation of the Touchstone Awards Series, beginning with the Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards for 2010. The Touchstone Awards Series is a family of awards designed to recognize and reward excellence in the field of haiku.
The Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards [...]

Essences explores the roots of the “haiku movement” in North America

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Essence #3
(part 3)

By Carmen Sterba

Carmen Sterba’s Interview with Cor van den Heuvel
〜Part 3 of 3〜

Carmen Sterba: Does the fact that you read your early haiku in coffee houses cause you to be more dramatic in your readings? Would you like to see haiku read more [...]

Quicksilver: the chronicles of a newcomer to the art of haiku

Quicksilver
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Learning About Seasonal Words
By Laura Sherman

One of the first things I learned about haiku is that each poem must contain a seasonal word. Sounded easy enough. I assumed that this was open to interpretation and that I could pick words that evoked different [...]

Sails is a section is devoted to presenting questions for discussion and debate on the nature and possibilities of haiku.

. . . 12th Sailing . . .

BY Peter Yovu
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Can you make just one line dance?

close to someone in the stars white seeps inward
—Marlene Mountain

moon almost new we pass through the construction of unseen walls
—Chris [...]

the blogspot for The Haiku Foundation’s academic journal
Juxtapositions: A Journal of Haiku Poetics & Culture (JUXTA)

3rd POSITION

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Jane Reichhold has written a thoughtful and controversial piece on haiku education for JUXTA 1. Here is her position paper. As a position paper, it is an act of resistance against what she sees as a trend in haiku [...]