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 this one. I hope you are having as much fun as I am. This week we … [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...]
A Step Outside the Box of Haiku
We don’t often think of haiku and business as ready partners (ask anyone who has tried to make a living from haiku!), but it’s not impossible. One good example was the long-running and entertaining Haiku in the Workplace series right here on The Haiku Foundation site (which you can view from the … [Read more...]
HAIKU DIALOGUE – Seeing Beyond Seeing – Photo Two
Seeing beyond Seeing: Mood, Memory and Metaphor Like haiku, photography is about seeing and experiencing. Haiku, meditation and photography have much in common: all are based in the present moment, all require complete focus, and all are most successful when the mind is free from distracting … [Read more...]
Creative Blooms 1: Distance from others, closeness to self.
In his Nobel lecture, Ceslaw Milosz quotes Simone Weil: “Distance is the soul of beauty.” What does she mean; how deeply have her words influenced this great poet? Can you feel that somewhere over the edge of knowing — something hovering, emanating at the … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Long Shadows
In Island, Judith Beveridge wrote that “Jane Gibian has a delicate and intuitive style…and her haiku brilliantly express the transient, fleeting nature of experience and perception." This is particularly true of this Australian poet’s haiku in our Book of the Week, Long Shadows, … [Read more...]
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