Michael Henry Lee’s 2012 chapbook, Against the Grain, published by Eleventh Hour Press of St. Augustine, Florida, is our Book of the Week. Despite the humor evident in some of his inventions, Lee’s imagination is deeply preoccupied with themes of change and mortality, and his … [Read more...]
Archives for 2018
The Touchstone Awards for Individual Awards Is Taking Nominations
The Touchstone Awards for Individual Poems is open for nomination. Please consider nominating your own favorite haiku published in 2018, and a favorite by a fellow poet. This is a great way to think about your own haiku writing during the year and consider the genre’s wonderful variety. You can … [Read more...]
re:Virals 162
Welcome to re:Virals, The Haiku Foundation’s weekly poem commentary feature on some of the finest haiku ever written in English. This week’s poem was visiting graves... we flicker as we walk down shadowed rows — Michael McClintock, Shadows in Time: Sixty … [Read more...]
The Renku Sessions: Breathing In – Week 8
Welcome to our ninth renku session under the sponsorship of The Haiku Foundation. This will be a Jûnichô (twelve verse) renku, under the guidance of John Stevenson. Twenty-three poets offered a total of fifty-five verses this time. As usual, I listed “requirements” for this verse and, as usual, … [Read more...]
A Sense of Place: MEADOW/FIELD – touch
A Sense of Place In his essay ‘So:ba’, given at the International Haiku Conference (SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, 2008) and published serially in Frogpond, Jim Kacian discusses the concept of ba: “If you look up ba in any Japanese-English Dictionary you'll find it means “place” or … [Read more...]
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