Poetry by form: Haiku Books

'Judith EP. Johnson's haiku are a quiet seam of gold. Time and again she offers finely seen acclamations of the ordinary and everyday, in celebration of the quotidian. She sees the earth not just from the moon, with the distance of objectivity, but also...

Jena kolekto de 145 hajkoj estas la rezulto de pura travivado, akra observado, filozofia pripensado kaj granda amo por la naturo.Ni varme konsilas legi ĝin malrapide por pli bone ĝui ĝian profundecon.

Jena kolekto de 145 hajkoj estas la rezulto de pura travivado, akra observado, filozofia pripensado kaj granda amo por la naturo.Ni varme konsilas legi ĝin malrapide por pli bone ĝui ĝian profundecon.

2024 Silver Winner, Poetry, IBPA Benjamin Franklin Book AwardIndigo Hours is a lyrical, profound, and playful book of haiku poems with original scratchboard drawings from an artist thrust into the role of care partner after her husband's diagnosis of...

This year marks the fiftieth year of my involvement in the sport of long-distance running. Looking back, I guess it started with a present under the Christmas tree in 1967. I was twelve years old. And inside a brightly wrapped box with ribbon and bow was...

Do you feel like you have been "reduction fired" in your life?  As Jennifer explains in her book, Reduction refers to the pottery method of firing a piece in low oxygen conditions - typically by slowly reducing the oxygen that feeds the...

In 'Ripples of Serenity: Escape and Healing,' Dr. Teri Dourmashkin, celebrated for her natural, handcrafted skincare line, intertwines her expertise in natural beauty with the art of poetry.This distinctive collection combines emotionally resonant verses...

The Rage & Peace of Soulz is a masterfully written exploration of the heart and mind. It is a poetry collection aimed to give vision to the emotionally blind and help heal the hearts of the brokenhearted.

Broken into five sections-The Status Quo, The Descent, Death in the Middle, The Rising, and Return with the Elixir-"Make it a Double" is a heartfelt, humorous recounting of what it was like for the poet to be stuck on a barstool year after...

A poetic novel set along the Pacific Northwest sea by a factory. Takes place in 1942 and 1992. Vatican Jones is building a wooden haiku, when he hears that a TV detective show will be filming an episode in his neighborhood. "He wondered...

A collection of Ronnie Strong’s most liked haiku on the themes of desire, love and life. Ronnie prepared this selection of erotic and poignant poems for sensual adults. He hopes you will enjoy the moods, thoughts and feelings evoked by these...

The Kobe Hotel is a revised edition, with an informative new introduction, of Masaya Saito's translations of Sanki Saitō's Kobe and Kobe Sequel, originally published by Weatherhill in 1993. Written by the leading figure of the New...

‘One feels accompanied by the poet in these pages; through gardens, along country roads and city streets, along windswept coastlines and out on the water. You will encounter many invitations to pause, to share an observation of something tiny...

Stephen Holton is an Episcopal priest who lives and works in the Hudson Valley region of New York. One day during morning prayer, he found himself arranging words "like puzzle pieces" in the traditional syllabic structure of Japanese haiku. Creating...

Ralph Günther Mohnnau's extensive oeuvre makes him one of the most important haijin of the present day. From the wealth of his poetry, he has presented a selection of 306 haiku in three volumes on the theme of love and passion. This work is particularly...

Scifaikuest is a quarterly digest of minimalist poetry themed to speculative, science fiction, and fantasy. Poetic forms include scifaiku, tanka, haibun, fibonacci, cinquain, senryu, diminuendo, ghazal, sijo, renku, and sedoka. This issue...

Elyse Braxton was deployed to Kuwait as an Individual Augmentee, with the United States Navy, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from July 2007 to August 2008. She served as a Staff Nurse at the United States Military Hospital Kuwait Expeditionary...