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: Working Late
Have we created our own cachet? Spawned our own celebrities? It seems unlikely that our little haiku exercise should have an outsized effect on your lives, but consider this: A haiku? Again? Dayson and Leavesley gone home? At last a haiku! [David Pilling] Our poet has measured the … [Read more...]
THF Weekly Haiku Puzzler #81
This week’s puzzler: Last week’s puzzler: He went south in Spain over the arête (8) And its solution: André Surridge Contestants who got the correct answer were (in order received): Theresa Cancro, Sheila Sondik, Polona Oblak, Roberta Beary. Need some help? Check out our … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Harvest Moon
John McDonald has long been a champion of Scots haiku, but Harvest Moon (shamlo.pub, 2007) is a much stranger offering than that — bilingual, to be sure, but English and . . . Farsi! McDonald’s themes remain much the same, however, rooted as they are in the natural world and its powerful effects on … [Read more...]
In Search of Basho 3
Every Sunday morning Mark Fittock and Ross Findlay explore haiku angst through their comic strip In Search of Basho. … [Read more...]