Welcome to the sixty-sixth iteration of the Haiku Music Challenge, hosted by Naviar Records. Last week I chose this poem from the haiku submitted to the September THF Monthly Kukai. coffee break a crumb for the sparrow Bill Kenney began writing haiku in December 2004, a month … [Read more...]
re:Virals 193
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 thistledown scatters the visible breeze — Michael Rehling, A Hundred Gourds 2:3(2013) Bill Kenney responds to the implicit … [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...]
Touchstone Honorable Mentions 2016
The following poets received Honorable Mentions in the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2016: Ludmila Balabanova. Dewdrops on the Weeds (Sofia, Bulgaria: Small Stations Press, 2016). Sylvia Forges-Ryan. What Light There Is: haiku, senryu and tanka of Sylvia Forges-Ryan, with haiga by … [Read more...]
The Touchstone Distinguished Books Award Committee Announces Its Shortlist for 2016
The Haiku Foundation is pleased to announce The Touchstone Distinguished Book Awards Shortlist for books of haiku and related forms published in 2016. The eighty books nominated for this year’s award represent a rich variety of English-speaking books from many nations and haiku traditions. It was … [Read more...]