Welcome to Poet’s Choice! Let’s talk about haiku! You are invited to respond to photographs – I will share a photo each week as a prompt for your writing... For this series, each poet may send one haiku on the week’s theme, and it will be included in the blog post. There is no selection … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2019
Book of the Week: Silent Silos: a counterBOMB haiku sequence
Our Book of the Week is Silent Silos: a counterBOMB haiku sequence, by the late Johnny Baranski. No one can fail to note the irony of calling underground, ballistic missile towers ‘silos’, after silage containers. In these poems, Johnny exploits this contrast between the … [Read more...]
World of Haiku Redux: England
ENGLAND We first featured poems and haiku history from around the world from January 2015 through the end of 2017, and are now sharing them again, both to remind you of the richness of the genre worldwide, and also to inspire you to update and … [Read more...]
re:Virals 210
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: celebrate the day pay no attention to the years —Susan Le Roberts, Haiku Foundation Per Diem (August … [Read more...]
HAIKU DIALOGUE – Poet’s Choice – pathway
Welcome to Poet’s Choice! Let’s talk about haiku! You are invited to respond to photographs – I will share a photo each week as a prompt for your writing... For this series, each poet may send one haiku on the week’s theme, and it will be included in the blog post. There is no selection … [Read more...]