Welcome to the THF Monthly Kukai. This month’s theme: uncertainty 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 — August 2020
Welcome to the THF Monthly Kukai. This month’s theme: do(ing) the right thing 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 … [Read more...]
THF Monthly Kukai — July 2020
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...]