Welcome to the THF Monthly Kukai. This month’s theme: social justice The THF Kukai Overview A kukai is a (usually quite casual) poetry contest. The administrator of the kukai (that’s us) assigns a theme for a given writing period and posts to Troutswirl (The Haiku Foundation blog) … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Endgrain
For our Book of the Week, I reprise Endgrain, haiku and senryu 1988-1997, by Dee Evetts. One of my personal favourites, this volume of poems contains scarcely one misstep, and literally dozens of fine, well written captures that show a mind responding imaginatively to … [Read more...]
THF Monthly Kukai — June 2020
Welcome to the THF Monthly Kukai. This month’s theme: reopening The THF Kukai Overview A kukai is a (usually quite casual) poetry contest. The administrator of the kukai (that’s us) assigns a theme for a given writing period and posts to Troutswirl (The Haiku Foundation blog) on … [Read more...]
THF Monthly Kukai Adds New Feature
The THF Monthly Kukai is pleased to announce the addition of Dee Evetts to its staff. Dee Evetts, internationally known haiku poet and author of “The Conscious Eye” series on contemporary themes in Frogpond in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has joined the THF Kukai team. He will … [Read more...]
re:Virals 86
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...]