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...]
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...]
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...]
Book of the Week: Bamboo Autumn
Our Book of the Week is Bamboo Autumn by Barbara F. Buck. Barbara lived and studied haiku in Japan for three years, and now writes classical haiku that range widely over setting and season. This volume follows the traditional path through the four seasons, and contains clear, … [Read more...]
Nominate Your Favorite Book for a Touchstone 2018 Award
The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2018 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...]
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