The Haiku Foundation

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Feature Overview

Delve into the history of English-language haiku in the most direct way possible: by reading its poets. The Book-of-the-Week series presents a new, digitized version of a book of haiku, recent or classic, drawn from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library and other holdings. Host: our digital librarian, Vidya Premkumar.

EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration

The EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration is the world’s largest annual collaborative poem. It's part of International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17), and plays out like an extended renku — the literary drinking game of feudal Japan. We look forward to your participation! Host: Jim Kacian. View the EarthRise Archive.

Education Resources

There’s so much to learn about haiku — and not just for students. Visit The Haiku Foundation’s Education Wall, where you’ll find lesson plans and educational tools for teachers and students alike. All age groups and experience levels will find something of interest to sharpen their approach to this surprisingly complex genre.

Events

Our Events page lists haiku-related awards, competitions, and events curated by our host. Hosted by Valérie Rivoallon.

Haiga Galleries

Each month The Haiku Foundation will add a new gallery of work devoted to haiga and related visual arts, and feature it on the THF site. You will find traditional approaches to haiga alongside more current trends like photo haiku. Host: Jim Kacian.

Haiku Bridges

Haiku Bridges is a periodic feature designed to encourage and communicate significant haiku outreach initiatives to new audiences. Host: Scott Mason.

Haiku Dialogue

Haiku Dialogue offers a triweekly prompt for practicing your haiku. Posts appear each Wednesday with a prompt or a selection of poems from a previous week. Comments are encouraged — join in the discussion! Host: kjmunro.

Haiku for Healing

This feature looks to explore the potential of haiku as a tool for healing in a range of diverse circumstances such as physical illness, bereavement, estrangement and displacement. Hosted by Sonam Chhoki.

Haiku of the Day

Haiku of the Day (formerly Per Diem) is one of our most popular offerings. Guest editors are invited to create thematic galleries of poems which are then prominently featured on the site and are gathered into the Haiku of the Day Archive. Host: Shloka Shankar.

Haiku Registry

The Haiku Registry offers brief curriculum vitae for haiku poets from around the world. Host: Marta Chocilowska.

haiku::photo

haiku::photo is a visual kukai. We invite anyone with a camera to explore the application of haiku principles to the craft of photography. For details, see haiku::photo Overview. Host: M. H. Rubin

HaikuLife

HaikuLife is The Haiku Foundation’s haiku film festival, the only event like it in the world — the Sundance of Haiku. Each year auteurs from around the world submit films, from brief video haiga to feature length treatments, all based on and around haiku. Host: Jim Kacian.

Haikupedia

Haikupedia is the most ambitious haiku-centric resource ever attempted, The Haiku Foundation’s encyclopedia of haiku. Definitions, biographies, famous places and important books from around the world, we’ve got it all covered here in one place. View the Haikupedia site. Senior Editor: Charles Trumbull.

International Haiku Poetry Day

April 17 is the day the whole world honors haiku. International Haiku Poetry Day features the HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival, the EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration, and the announcement of the results of the Touchstone Awards. Host: Jim Kacian.

Juxtapositions

Juxtapositions, The Haiku Foundation’s journal of haiku research and scholarship, is the only vehicle of its kind dedicated to academic, peer-reviewed haiku research and criticism. MLA Standard. Indexed. Senior Editor: Ce Rosenow.

Librarian’s Cache

Librarian's Cache is an occasional series that features journals, videos, and other assets from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library and other holdings. Host: our digital librarian, Dan Campbell.

New to Haiku

A space specially designed for those of you just starting out on the journey of haiku. First things to read, study, look at and try yourselves, without judgment. We remember — we all start somewhere. Host: Julie Bloss Kelsey.

re:Virals

re:Virals is an interactive feature which offers commentary on selected haiku each week. The supplier of the best commentary each week gets to choose the next week’s poem. An updated version of Virals, an early interactive feature of THF. co-hosts: Shawn Blair, Melissa Dennison, Susan Yavaniski, and Keith Evetts (managing editor).

Renku Sessions

The Renku Sessions was created to offer a participatory activity that honors historical traditions while actively engaging contemporary practice. Poets participate in 12, 20 and 36-link renku, moderated by the leading Western sabaki of our day. Host: John Stevenson. See our Archive of Completed Renku.

THF Monthly Kukai

The THF Monthly Kukai invites poets from around the world to craft a poem to the month’s theme, and then to assess the roster of poems by others on that theme. Winning poems become part of the THF Monthly Kukai Archive. Winners also receive books of their choice from the THF Hard Copy Library extra copies catalog. Host: Tom Borkowski.

Touchstone Awards

In 2012 The Haiku Foundation created the Touchstone Awards — the highest awards in the field — to reward excellence and innovation in the genre. Award categories are best individual haiku/senryu, best individual haibun, and best haiku publications. Overview: THF Touchstone Awards | Host: Bruce Feingold.

The MISSION of The Haiku Foundation is threefold:

to ARCHIVE our first century of English-language haiku

Haiku Archives

to EXPAND possibilities for our second century

Haiku Outside the Box

to SEEK active exchange with other haiku languages and cultures around the world

Haiku Around the World

Our Latest Posts

HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival 2026

re:Virals 551

2025 Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems — Awarded

2025 Touchstone Awards for Individual Haibun – Awarded Haibun

2025 Touchstone Distinguished Books Award — Awarded and Honorable Mentions

Today Is International Haiku Poetry Day 2026!

Earthrise Rolling Haiku Collaboration 2026