Garry Gay has made his living as a photographer, and this visual orientation strongly affects his way with haiku. He has also acquired a reputation for his senryu, though it is in haiku that he has consistently found his deepest expression. This tight collection (Saki Press, 1999) was a Virgil … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
Old Pond Comics: Cherry Blossoms
Every Saturday morning Jessica Tremblay will delight us with a comic strip from her new Haiku-Comics series. … [Read more...]
Bookstories 29: Zoe Savina’s The Enchantresses
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...]
Survey Says . . . THF Organization
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to a series of questions, one per week, over the next half-year. Your replies … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: The Tree It Was
Sandra Fuhringer is a past president of Haiku Canada. This chapbook, part of the Hexagram Series (King’s Road Press, 2002), takes as one of its themes the confrontation with illness—something with which she is all too acquainted with—and, in a larger sense, recovery from it, as well as from what … [Read more...]