There is a brand new haiku journal on the scene. Issue #1 of Kingfisher was released in July 2020. Kingfisher will be produced twice yearly by Tanya McDonald from Washington State in the USA. Tanya describes Kingfisher as ‘a print journal of traditional and experimental haiku and senryu’. Kingfisher is beautifully produced in landscape format… Read More Kingfisher Journal
field of stars (Walleah Press, 2019) is the latest collection by Tasmanian poet, Lyn Reeves. Lyn is currently Vice-President of the Australian Haiku Society, co-editor of Echidna Tracks: Australian Haiku and founder and convener of the Watersmeet haiku group. It is often said about poetry in general,… Read More Lyn Reeves: field of stars
A new Per Diem poem appears every day at the top right corner of The Haiku Foundation Home page. Each poem is part of a monthly, themed collection created by a guest editor. As I noted in an earlier post (which can be found here), The Haiku Foundation kindly asked me to be guest editor… Read More Per Diem Archive: June 2020
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
Creatrix is an online poetry journal run by West Australian Poets Inc. (WA Poets). Each quarter, Creatrix publishes haiku and longer poems in two separate volumes. Three of my haiku, including this one, appeared in the most recent issue, Creatrix #48: summer’s end I take another plum from the fridge For me, this haiku… Read More Creatrix #48
Gregory Piko 