The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce The Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards Shortlist for books of haiku and related forms published in 2015. The seventy-five books nominated for this year’s award represent a rich variety of English-speaking books from many nations and haiku traditions. It … [Read more...]
The New Juxtapositions Is Here!
Juxtapositions, The Haiku Foundation’s journal of haiku research and scholarship, releases Issue 2.1, dedicated to poet, editor and publisher Cor van den Heuvel on the occasion of his 85th birthday, March 6, 2016. Juxtapositions 2.1 includes Sandra Simpson’s history of haiku through The Great War, … [Read more...]
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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 Deep in the inkwell a star. — Alexis Rotella, The Haiku Anthology (1999) Peter Newton finds a metaphor for the … [Read more...]
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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 no one calls she gently dusts her porcelain rabbits — Elena Naskova, Nest Feathers: Selected Haiku from the First … [Read more...]