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School's Out is precisely what a selected works should be: a showcase of a substantial number of haiku from decades of work. It is a landmark collection and confirms that Randy Brooks is one of the foremost haiku poets in the English language: two lines in the water . . . not a word between father and son Includes 174 haiku, 65 never before published.

School's Out : Selected Haiku of Randy Brooks

Brooks, Randy

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Close to the Wind: 2013 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Welch, Michael Dylan

Learn the key techniques and strategies for writing haiku in English from acclaimed haiku poet, teacher, and translator Michael Dylan Welch. This book emphasizes the most effective targets for haiku poetry, ones that are usually not taught in schools. There's more to haiku, and less, than you might think. This concise book provides just the information you need to learn the art of haiku and to start becoming a haiku poet. About the Author Michael Dylan Welch has published his essays, reviews, translations, haiku, and other poetry in hundreds of journals and anthologies, and has won numerous awards for his work. He has served for many years as vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington, where he also curates two poetry reading series. Michael also cofounded the Haiku North America conference (1991) and the American Haiku Archives (1996), founded the Tanka Society of America (2000), and started National Haiku Writing Month in 2010 (www.nahaiwrimo.com and on Facebook). Visit his personal website, devoted mostly to haiku, at www.graceguts.com. Endorsements “The real secret to becoming a haiku poet is to start writing haiku.” From the foreword by Aubrie Cox “For many years Michael Dylan Welch’s essays on haiku have guided newcomers and seasoned poets alike. With characteristic authority and humor, Becoming a Haiku Poet is yet another of his important contributions to the study and understanding of haiku poetry.” Charles Trumbull, editor emeritus of Modern Haiku “Michael Dylan Welch’s knowledge and experience with haiku is recognized internationally. He always has time to assist new poets starting out on the haiku path, to engage in a conversation about poetics, or to recommend a current essay or book. He never tires of answering the question: What is a haiku, anyway? Becoming a Haiku Poet is Michael’s concise and informative answer.” Terry Ann Carter, president of Haiku Canada

Becoming a Haiku Poet

The biennial Haiku North America conference celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary with Fire in the Treetops. This anthology assembles all the haiku and senryu published in previous conference anthologies. An extensive introduction by editor Michael Dylan Welch explores the history and future of the conference, and short essays by thirteen contributors feature poems selected from each conference. Christopher Patchel provides linocut artwork.  “The art of haiku is mature and popular in the English language. If the existence and success of the biennial Haiku North America conferences do not sufficiently attest to this, now comes additional proof. Fire in the Treetops compiles more than a thousand haiku and senryu from all thirteen HNA anthologies from 1991 to 2015, a time when poets were stretching their wings, shaking off the restraints of Japanese traditions, and exploring new, individual approaches to this historical poetic genre. The poets whose work appears here comprise a veritable who’s who of English-language haiku. I can hardly think of a single prominent North American haiku poet whose name cannot be found here. Fire in the Treetops chronicles the florescence of North American haiku and we might well consider the index of poets to be its pantheon. Michael Dylan Welch has done an enormous service for the North American haiku community.” —Charles Trumbull, editor emeritus, Modern Haiku, and past president, Haiku Society of America  “Haiku North America is probably the most ambitious haiku event ever attempted outside of Japan. Everyone taking part in this coming-of-age celebration for English-language haiku will be helping to make literary history.” —Cor van den Heuvel, on the back cover of the first HNA conference anthology, Harvest

Fire in the Treetops: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Haiku North America

Editor, Michael Dylan Welch

NATIONAL HAIKU WRITING MONTH, also known as NaHaiWriMo, celebrates the world's shortest poetry. When? Every February, the year's shortest month. This book's 324 haiku and senryu represent 100 participating poets from around the world, selected by NaHaiWriMo founder Michael Dylan Welch. Ron C. Moss contributes haiga artwork for 28 featured poems. Open the jumble box "NaHaiWriMo gets me writing every day." -Johnny Baranski, Vancouver, Washington "NaHaiWriMo is an endless inspiration " -Kashinath Karmakar, Durgapur, India "Thanks, NaHaiWriMo, for being my psychotherapist for February." -Michael Nickels-Wisdom, Spring Grove, Illinois "NaHaiWriMo offers a sense of community and belonging and sharing-it is just wonderful " -Daphne Purpus, Vashon, Washington "I did it-one haiku a day throughout February And now I'm not sure if I can stop." -Tore Sverredal, G teborg, Sweden Visit NaHaiWriMo at www.nahaiwrimo.com, or on Facebook at https: //www.facebook.com/NaHaiWriMo/.

Jumble Box: Haiku and Senryu from National Haiku Writing Month

Sitting in the Sun collects haiku and senryu by more than ninety attendees of the 2019 Haiku North America conference, held August 7 to 11, 2019 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Edited by Michael Dylan Welch and Crystal Simone Smith, this anthology features many leading poets writing haiku in English, together with North Carolina-themed artwork by Kate MacQueen. "Sitting in the Sun celebrates the fifteenth biennial Haiku North America conference, held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 2019. These conferences provide an array of academic research and inspired readings and presentations, but they're also a kind of 'sitting on the porch a spell, ' a gathering of friends to enjoy the day, to talk about a favorite poetic subject, and to ponder-or avoid-the ups and downs that life has to offer. In the very first Haiku North America anthology in 1991, the collection's poems were arranged by each poet's first name, and we've been doing that ever since. It's a sort of front-porch familiarity that we continue to value-and seek to promote. So please sit a spell with these poems and poets." -adapted from the introduction MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH is a poet, editor, and publisher. In 1991 he cofounded Haiku North America, and has edited all HNA conference anthologies. In 1996 he cofounded the American Haiku Archives, and in 2000 he founded the Tanka Society of America, serving as its president for five years, then returning again as president in 2018. In 2008 he cofounded the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, which he continues to direct, and in 2010 he founded National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com). He has also served for many years as vice president of the Haiku Society of America, and served two terms as poet laureate of Redmond, Washington. His poems have won first place in numerous contests (including the Henderson, Brady, Tokutomi, Bacopa, and Drevniok contests), and have appeared in hundreds of journals and anthologies in more than twenty languages-including a tanka translation on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps in 2012. He has also published numerous books of haiku and related poetry, the latest including Jumble Box: Haiku and Senryu from National Haiku Writing Month (Press Here, 2017) and Seven Suns, Seven Moons, a collaboration with Tanya McDonald (NeoPoiesis Press, 2016). His website, which features his essays, reviews, and poems, is www.graceguts.com. CRYSTAL SIMONE SMITH is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Routes Home (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and Running Music (Longleaf Press, 2014). She is also the author of Wildflowers: Haiku, Senryu, and Haibun (2016). Her work has appeared in numerous journals including Callaloo, Nimrod, Barrow Street, Obsidian II: Literature in the African Diaspora, African American Review, and Mobius: The Journal of Social Change. She is an alumna of the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and the Yale Summer Writers Conference. She holds an MFA from Queens University of Charlotte and lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her husband and two sons where she teaches English composition and creative writing. She is the managing editor of Backbone Press (www.backbonepress.org).

Sitting in the Sun: 2019 Haiku North America Anthology

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