First published fifty years ago, The Wordless Poem: A Study of Zen in Haiku by Eric Amann, is our Book of the Week. While the practice of haiku in English as an expression of the Zen outlook has lost some of its appeal in the heterodox atmosphere of modern haiku, Amann’s book … [Read more...]
Archives for 2018
Last Chance to Nominate a Poem for a 2018 Touchstone!
Nominations close today for The Touchstone Award for Individual Poems for 2018. The awards, generally acknowledged as the highest in the field, are bestowed annually on the year’s best published haiku in English as judged by our distinguished panel of poets, editors and scholars. Any … [Read more...]
Last Chance to Nominate a Book for a 2018 Touchstone!
Nominations for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2018 closes at midnight tonight. The awards, generally acknowledged as the highest in the field, are bestowed annually on individual collections, anthologies and/or works of scholarship that represent significant contributions to … [Read more...]
re:Virals 172
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 gods and men love maps they draw borders with pens that split lives like an axe. —John Paul Lederach. (From a … [Read more...]
A Sense of Place: CITY SIDEWALK – 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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