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 home after dark through the window my family of strangers — Dee Evetts, The Haiku Hundred (Iron Press, … [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...]
Book of the Week: endgrain
Dee Evetts has a considerable stake in the history of English-language haiku—co-founder of the British Haiku Society, curator of the Haiku on 42nd Street project—not least by his nuanced, soft-spoken poems. endgrain (Red Moon Press, 1997) marked his coming to his full flight of powers, and won a … [Read more...]