DENMARK 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...]
re:Virals 209
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: the way words change everything falling snow — Victor Ortiz, The Heron's Nest, Volume XXI, No. 2: (2019) Radhamani … [Read more...]
Haiku Dialogue: Poet’s Choice, Ambiguity
Welcome to the Poet’s Choice series. Posted below are the submissions for last week's ambiguity theme. For this series, each poet may send one haiku on the week's theme, and it will be included in the blog post. There is no selection process. The haiku appear in the order in … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Counting Star-Bones
Our Book of the Week from The Haiku Foundation Digital Library is Counting Star-Bones, by Alegria Imperial, a Philippine poet who now resides in Vancouver, Canada. In this chapbook, published in 2018 by Yavanika Press of Bangalore, India. Alegria sadly turns her brilliant, … [Read more...]
Per Diem for September 2019: Day Moon
Per Diem: Daily Haiku for September 2019 features Madhuri Pillai's collection on the theme of 'day moon'. This is what Madhuri has to say by way of an introduction to her theme: Since the beginning of time, the moon has always enamoured us with her luminous splendour, her tranquil visage as she … [Read more...]