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 hefting a plum — I know by heart my father’s orchard — Michael McClintock, tug of the current: The Red Moon Anthology … [Read more...]
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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 visiting graves... we flicker as we walk down shadowed rows — Michael McClintock, Shadows in Time: Sixty … [Read more...]
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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 Sunday evening rain the texture of etcetera — Jim Kacian, After Image Red Moon Press (2017) … [Read more...]
Book of the Week: Sketches from the San Joaquin
Michael McClintock has been a major player in the haiku world for more than 4 decades. This elegant chapbook won the Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Competition in 2008 (and appeared in 2009). You can read the entire book in the THF Digital Library. Do you have a chapbook published 2010 or … [Read more...]
Michael McClintock — Touchstone Award Winner
Michael McClintock’s poem spring dream . . . slipping my wings into a work shirt was a winner of a Touchstone Individual Poem Award for the best haiku published 2015. It first appeared in The Heron’s Nest XVII:3. See the complete list of winners of both Individual Poem … [Read more...]