Every day, The Haiku Foundation Home page features a different haiku at its top right hand corner. The poems for the October 2020 Per Diem were selected by Tasmanian poet, Lyn Reeves, and addressed the theme of ‘Sky’. As Lyn said in her introduction to the Sky haiku: “Constantly present and constantly changing, sky accompanies… Read More Haiku Foundation Per Diem: October 2020
Each spring, the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival celebrates the Japanese tradition of flower viewing with a program of concerts, cultural events and The Big Picnic in Queen Elizabeth Park. Unfortunately, due to COVID, the 2020 program was curtailed with some events moving online and others being cancelled. Nevertheless, planning is underway for the 2021 Festival,… Read More 2020 Vancouver Haiku Invitational
There’s been some interest in the poems I’ve published using the haiku shuffle format, so I thought I’d take the opportunity to explain my thinking about this format a little more clearly. I’ve written on this topic in two previous posts (see links below). The first of these explained how the idea grew out of… Read More How To Haiku Shuffle
The Signature Haiku Anthology: Including Senryu and Tanka was published earlier this year by Middle Island Press. Editor, Robert Epstein, describes a signature poem as ‘a unique and authentic expression of one’s haiku spirit or sensibility’. Acknowledging that many of a writer’s poems reflect their poetic spirit, he argues a poet will often have one… Read More The Signature Haiku Anthology
The widely-read New Zealand journal, Kokako, publishes haiku, tanka, haibun and related forms. As usual, the most recent issue (#32) includes writing from New Zealand and around the world. This issue of Kokako includes a poem of mine titled, Night Sky, which is written in the form of a haiku shuffle. In an earlier post,… Read More Kokako #32: Night Sky
Robert Epstein is a poet and psychotherapist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has produced a series of poetry anthologies on topics such as grief, renewal and the afterlife. His anthology, All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku, was published by Middle Island Press in late 2019. The anthology contains a mix of… Read More All the Way Home: Aging in Haiku
The Haiku Foundation (THF), based in the US State of Virginia, archives a treasure trove of English-language haiku and seeks active exchange with other haiku languages and cultures around the world. A new Per Diem poem appears every day at the top right corner of The Haiku Foundation Home page. Each poem is part of… Read More The Haiku Foundation: Per Diem
Martin Lucas established and edited the haiku journal, Presence, from 1996 until his death in 2014. He held a PhD for his study of haiku in Britain and is well known for his essay, Haiku as poetic spell, which is available on the Presence website. Since 2015, the Presence journal has conducted the Martin Lucas… Read More 2019 Martin Lucas Haiku Award
Gregory Piko 