Haiku lost a friend and champion recently with the passing of Robert Mainone, peacefully in his sleep at his beloved Haiku Hut in Delton, Michigan. Bob was an early convert to what he saw as the "haiku way," publishing his first book in 1964, and continuing to write to the night of his death. … [Read more...]
Archives for February 2015
Bookstories 14: Polona Oblak’s “distant lightning”
Every book tells its story, but what of the other story, the story behind the book? Bookstories offers an opportunity to tell that story. If you have a story about a book or poem you would like to share, contact us and we’ll help you make it happen. Thanks for letting us know the rest of the … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Sixteen Haiku
Tokihiko Kusama produced this chapbook (Nagata, 1992) at the beginnings of Japanese interest in exchanging haiku ideas with poets from other cultures. It was fashionable in those days to offer such a volume, and this one, modestly selecting a mere handful of poems from a lifetime's involvement with … [Read more...]
THF Haiku App Expanded and Updated for Mobile Devices
Good News! The Haiku Foundation's proprietary haiku app for Apple platform, THF Haiku, has been expanded to incorporate all the poems that appeared in Per Diem: Daily Haiku during 2014. That brings the total to more than 1500 poems now stored on the app. Each time the app is opened, a new poem is … [Read more...]
Bookstories 13: Ken Jones’ Bogcotton
Every book tells its story, but what of the other story, the story behind the book? Bookstories offers an opportunity to tell that story. If you have a story about a book or poem you would like to share, contact us and we’ll help you make it happen. Thanks for letting us know the rest of the … [Read more...]