Publications

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 [...]

Some reading and listening materials to take you into the year of the tiger. . . .

Haiku Chronicles: Episode 9—The Definition (featuring Anita Virgil)

Haiku Reality/Stvarnost
which includes the essays:
Haiku & Capitalism
&
Bashō’s Sexual Life
both by Dr. Dimitar Anakiev

MASKS 2

Notes from the Gean #3

Roadrunner IX:4 (November 09)

Shamrock Haiku Journal #12
Haiku Journal of the Irish Haiku Society

“Theoretical Apparitions of [...]

Allan Burns’ Montage series appears each Sunday on The Haiku Foundation website. This week, however, Allan has created a special edition for readers highlighting some work by five female haiku poets all, interestingly enough, born in the same year. In this mid-week special, Allan highlights work by Caroline Gourlay, Peggy Willis Lyles, Marlene Mountain, Marian [...]

A new section! A contest!
The following post is the first in a new series devoted to reviewing books/collections of, about, or related to, haiku. To kick things off, the first installment is by Billie Wilson, about a collection that she found herself driven to write about.
And so this new section becomes open to ALL [...]

Don Wentworth is the founder, editor and publisher of the Lilliput Review, a zine devoted to short poetry, including haiku, and has published haiku chapbooks by Gary Hotham, translations of Kobayshi Issa (by Dennis Maloney), as well as Japanese nature and love poems. His appreciation for Japanese and Asian poetics is strong. Don also runs [...]