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Who knows? Maybe a brisk plunge into crowd-sourced poetry is just what you need before fall comes on with its ghosts and melancholy.
Please consider adding your haiku and senryu to a stream of poetry that will be displayed on large monitors in various venues at SPARKCon, an arts festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
Of course, [...]

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 [...]

A few news items for troutswirl readers.
First and foremost, I would like to point out to everyone some of the hard and creative work The Haiku Foundation’s Webmaster, Dave Russo, has done. On the right hand side of the blog you will notice a number of changes have been made.
Because troutswirl contains different sections/strands, [...]

Name the New Troutswirl Section

by Peter Yovu

Was there ever an adventure, big or small, that did not begin with a question, and that was not fueled at every bend with further questions and ongoing curiosity and the longing to bring what is far away up close? It is in the spirit of haiku as adventure [...]