Welcome to The Haiku Foundation's Fifth Renku Session: New Calendar. I am John Stevenson, leading my second Kasen (36 verse) renku on this site. We will be trying something a little different this time. Instead of making all of the selections myself, new verses will be selected by the poet who wrote … [Read more...]
Survey 2017 — THF Touchstone Awards
Every September the Board of Directors and Associates of The Haiku Foundation are sent a survey. Their responses help to guide our growth and direction. We’d like to broaden our input, and so we’ll be asking you to respond to a series of questions, one per week, over the next half-year. Your replies … [Read more...]
Haiku in the Workplace: Elevator Awkwardness
“Hell is . . . other people,” Jean-Paul Sartre opined in his 1944 drama Huis Clos (No Exit), and of course he was right. Those of us who work in close proximity with other members of the species know how maddening they can be to be with — unlike ourselves. Sartre didn’t do it, but he could have set … [Read more...]
THF Weekly Haiku Puzzler #85
This week’s puzzler: Last week’s puzzler: He took Enid out to play golf. (8) And its solution: Bruce Feingold Contestants who got the correct answer were (in order received): Polona Oblak, Sheila Sondik, Theresa Cancro. Need some help? Check out our Puzzler … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Summer Daze
Richard Livsey had a brief fling with haiku in the late 1990s, producing a quartet of light-hearted chapbooks, of which Summer Daze (Funky Diction Publishing, 1997) was the second. Despite his relative inexperience in the genre, Livsey (not to be confused with the Welsh CBE) did achieve some poems … [Read more...]
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