by Jim Kacian on January 9, 2011
There are other places you can find a haiku a day, but none of those places will be quite like this. The Haiku Foundation announces Per Diem, a collection of haiku edited by Paul Pfleuger Jr. and Jack Galmitz. Every day a new haiku will be posted on our home page that will please and challenge your conceptions of what haiku are.
In their goal statement for Per Diem, Pfleuger and Galmitz say:
“Every effort has been made to present an array of haiku, so that the entire spectrum of the genre is represented. Our presentations will not be limited to English-language originals, but will include haiku in translation, so the broadest possible representation of the field is offered.” They go on to say ”Per Diem will include poems from the past and present, from different ethnic groups, from men and women, from the established and from the unknown, with high quality being the only standard we use for inclusion.”
Per Diem will offer each day a haiku/senryu that we trust will engage you, say in the way a dream remembered leaves an impression upon awakening or sometimes for the entire day, or, the way a thought or word hides beyond the borders of consciousness and for all your efforts resists memory, or, simply the way a scent, a sight, a room removes you to another time and place.
We welcome your submissions of other poets’ published haiku/senryu for future use. Please contact the edtitors directly: Paul Pfleuger at thf_DOT_paul_AT_gmail_DOT_com and Jack Galmitz at jgalmitz_AT_yahoo_DOT_com.
We hope that you’ll use our forum to share your comments on the Per Diem poems. Let us know what you think.
Jim Kacian
President
THF
by Dave Russo on January 6, 2011
We are pleased to announce the start of our second annual HaikuNow! contest today! Prizes will be awarded for English-language haiku in three categories: traditional, contemporary and innovative. Anyone is free to enter one unpublished haiku per category.
Please see the main HaikuNow! page for deadlines and other requirements. The winning poems from last year are available from the HaikuNow! Archive page.
Laura Sherman is our contest coordinator. Our two final judges are Jim Kacian and Jane Hirshfield. Many of you will know Jane from her poetry collections (After), her essays (Nine Gates, Entering the Mind of Poetry) and her translations (Ink Dark Moon, with Mariko Aratani).
We look forward to receiving your entries!
by Jim Kacian on January 5, 2011
Thanks once again to all those who helped make 2010 a successful year for The Haiku Foundation. Our final reckoning shows 2 businesses and 72 people donated cash for our general operating expenses, 21 people donated service to our specific offerings, and 88 individuals and presses donated books to our hard copy library. All these are significant increases over 2009, and suggests the impressive growth of the Foundation, with the likelihood of more to come.
One incentive to contribution offered in 2010 was a copy of Montage: The Book for all donations of $50 or more. Edited by Allan Burns, MTB is the largest anthology of English-language haiku ever assembled (more than 1100 poems) in a unique format, featuring galleries of like-minded poets on selected themes, arranged one per week (plus one for New Year, in the Japanese fashion). The result is a comparative study of ELH unlike anything else available anywhere. For those of you who didn’t get a chance to pick one up, we have fewer than a hundred copies left, and once they’re gone, they’re gone. The same deal still holds: anyone making a contribution of $50 or more will receive a copy. And of course your donations are fully tax-deductible.
Thanks for helping THF off to a great start in the New Year.
Jim Kacian
President
THF
by Jim Kacian on January 3, 2011
We are grateful to all of you who participated in the Matching Funds Drive to close the books on 2010, and especially to our Anonymous Donor, whose idea it was in the first place. THF is pleased to announce that $860 was raised in the 4 days of the Drive, which will help cover the expenses of the new website software and design, timeline software and upgrades to existing features, in addition to the many other things THF offers. If you missed your chance to participate, we’ll be doing it again in mid-January, as another Anonymous Donor, perhaps inspired by the first, has indicated a willingness to match funds dollar for dollar regardless of amount. More details will be forthcoming in a week or 10 days. Thanks again to all, and Happy New Year.
Jim Kacian
President
THF
by Jim Kacian on December 27, 2010
Deadline: midnight December 31, 2010
An anonymous donor, in the spirit of the giving season, has stepped forward with a matching grant challenge. For every dollar donated to The Haiku Foundation between now and the end of the calendar year (December 31, 2010 at midnight), this anonymous donor will match it one for one, up to $300. If you’ve been waiting to contribute to the Foundation, this is the time your generosity will do the most good, essentially doubling your gift.
But time is limited, so please don’t hesitate. Go to the Donate page and follow the instructions there for the matching grant. We thank you in advance for your continuing support of THF.
Jim Kacian
President
The Haiku Foundation
