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. Hello, everyone. It has been one more week for me “sheltering in place.” How … [Read more...]
THF Monthly Kukai — April 2020
Welcome to the THF Monthly Kukai! This month’s theme: hope The THF Kukai Overview A kukai is a (usually quite casual) poetry contest. The administrator of the kukai (that’s us) assigns a theme for a given writing period and posts to Troutswirl (The … [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...]
Book of the Week: Ikebana
Our Book of the Week is Ikebana, by the Romanian poet, Vasile Moldovan. As floral arrangements vary with the seasons, so Moldovan’s flower and plant haiku feature appropriate natural variations, arranged according to season. A collection about natural renewal that repays … [Read more...]
Haiku Music Challenge 51
Welcome to the fifty-first iteration of the Haiku Music Challenge, hosted by Naviar Records. Mark Morris is a journalist with more than a decade of experience writing for major broadcasters and national publications in the UK. He runs the Twitter account Pure Land Haiku, which has a simple … [Read more...]
re:Virals 239
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 no more waiting for him to keep his promise last plum blossom — Martha Magenta, Presence, Issue 64 … [Read more...]
HAIKU DIALOGUE – The Haiku Mind – Hobbies & Introduction to Haiku Prism
Intro to Haiku Prism – A World in Color During this dark time we could all use something to brighten up our weeks. I believe that each one of us carries an inner light that can be a source of solace for others. So let’s take that light and channel it through the magic and wonder of … [Read more...]
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