The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2018 is now open for nominations. The awards, generally considered the highest honor in the haiku field, are bestowed annually on published collections or works of scholarship that represent significant contributions to English-language haiku. Collections … [Read more...]
Nominate a Poem for a 2018 Touchstone Award
The Touchstone Awards, the highest accolades in the haiku field, are now accepting nominations for 2018. The Touchstone Awards aim to recognize the best haiku published each calendar year, individually and collectively. It’s time now to reflect on your favorite English-language haiku published … [Read more...]
re:Virals 157
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 late flowering the last bee disappears down a bright funnel — Ian Turner, Blithe Spirit 23/4 (2013) Lucy … [Read more...]
The Renku Sessions: Breathing In, Week 3
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. Last week we invited offers for verse two – a springtime image, in two lines. Twenty-six poets responded, with seventy-eight verses. … [Read more...]
A Sense of Place: MOUNTAIN – 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...]