Alexis Rotella is a recipient of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2018 for her volume Unsealing Our Secrets: A Short Poem Anthology About Sexual Abuse. Alexis Rotella, Curator/Editor. (Arnold MD: Jade Mountain Press. 131 pages, 6”x9”. $12.99) Commentary from the Panel: “The best way … [Read more...]
The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Committee Announces Its Shortlist for 2018
The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce The Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards Shortlist for books of haiku and related forms published in 2018. The sixty-seven books nominated for this year’s award represent a rich variety of English-speaking books from many nations and haiku traditions. Each … [Read more...]
The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Committee Announces Its Shortlist for 2015
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...]
re:Virals 25
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...]