After a short hiatus, The Renku Sessions returns to The Haiku Foundation. I am John Stevenson and I will be your guide for a twelve-verse renku, in which we will compose one verse per week until completion. A longer session, with a different leader, is being planned to follow … [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: The First Australian Haiku Anthology
Our Book of the Week from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library is The First Australian Haiku Anthology, edited by Janice Bostok and John Bird. This book was the first in what has become a substantial shelf of Australian haiku anthologies. Personally, I love haiku that take me to … [Read more...]
World of Haiku Redux: Japan
JAPAN 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...]
Haiku Music Challenge 38
Welcome to the thirty-eighth iteration of the Haiku Music Challenge, hosted by Naviar Records. Ogiwara Seisensui was a Japanese haiku poet active during the Taishō and Showa periods of Japan. He started the school of free haiku which Ozaki Hōsai and Taneda Santoka popularized. In 1911 … [Read more...]
re:Virals 219
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: 桃咲くやすぐに忘れる他人の死 peach blossoms open — how soon we forget the deaths of others — Kyōko Terada, Haiku Universe for the 21st … [Read more...]
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