The Renku Sessions continue on The Haiku Foundation. I am Patricia Machmiller and I am honored to be your guide for an eighteen-verse renku, in which we will compose one verse per week until completion. A few people have asked which format we’ll be using; it will be the demikasen as … [Read more...]
Nominate Your Favorite Book for a 2019 Touchstone Award
The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2019 is open for nominations. 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 English-language haiku as … [Read more...]
HAIKU DIALOGUE – The Haiku Mind – Wild Animals
The Haiku Mind Recently, my five-year-old daughter was comforting her younger sister when she spontaneously composed this haiku as a source of solace: leaving all that’s left the fog I was shocked! I haven’t shared much haiku with her yet thinking it was a bit beyond her ability to … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Growing Through the Dark
Our Book of the Week is Growing Through the Dark, by Canadian poet Michael Dudley. In this chapbook, Dudley’s poetic imagination is concerned with vivid, subtly meaningful moments from domestic life. a milkweed arrangement the odor of hairspray in the … [Read more...]
Haiku Music Challenge 47
Welcome to the forty-seventh iteration of the Haiku Music Challenge, hosted by Naviar Records. Mats Unden is a Swedish visual artist, sound artist, musician, and experimental composer, based in Darwin, Australia. He creates minimal electronica, ambient, and makes noise, with a passion for … [Read more...]
re:Virals 233
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 mud caked boots the heaviness of regret — Gary Hittmeyer, frogpond, Vol. 42:3 (2019) Carol Jones considers the mud … [Read more...]
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