Paris Haiku

Terrific guide to writing modern, English-language haiku (ELH) by a lion in the haiku community, Jim Kacian. He is also the founder of The Haiku Foundation, and he owns/operates a top haiku press called Red Moon Press. It's free to read online and well worth your time if you want to improve your haiku:
https://thehaikufoundation.org/omeka/files/original/144e48a5d222480b6c1534e3cb516569.pdf?fbclid=IwY2xjawPkqHFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF5ZTdwQ0phcW1HR3J0UTZhc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHnjST5qEjS0J5PvGxzu5eMfaHozM-7WwKftchc9E7vGL5w4XU3yqjDybgFtS_aem_MfUSHsySgsWITd-OhyGvHA

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I'm happy to share my latest published haiku (or senryu), published in "tinywords," online:
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the market value
of my childhood . . .
antiques fair
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tinywords.com the market value of my childhood . . . antiques fair

Here's an excellent opportunity for students in grades 7-12 to enter a top-notch haiku contest (now through March 20, 2026):

Guidelines for Entering the HSA Student Haiku Awards Competition 2025 All haiku or senryu must be previously unpublished, original work, and not entered in any other contest or submitted elsewhere for publication. Please follow the guidelines carefully. Publication is defined as an appearance in a printed book, magazine, or journal (sold or given away), or in any onli...

It's finally here! My first haiku collection was self-published on Amazon and IngramSpark a couple of weeks ago. Discover 101 haiku published in almost twenty haiku journals over a decade---and, appropriate to share with kids in classrooms, too. (I'm saving the haiku on more mature and difficult topics for a later collection.) Check it out:

https://www.amazon.com/Little-Acorns-Discover-Classroom-Children/dp/1968966560/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.qJKnflbp0bb75TMJjTNEhXgvQDl5hbBdu_Kxkgoz9FeqPR0cfimkLk_YFkpQwGr7Jeyhhh5Ktfg3X2SXj25w63CLrrysSulJEVBcoA0IbjT9XF-2LmrANpvWDwVYc_8W0uyWX88XXs_LP6P1P1EHM1BbSW1AbINS6ruq7l1439PJVe9cyfOB_xIejfRBiqECFM_bbSdGROJh4Pu8fe1RPP70xnN_8ROR9-JzAzPBjDI.9vLthzAxSIadjHQSQvuSV6BINcmDsmlroGVUy3k0B-c&qid=1761340071&sr=8-4

Very happy to share this new haiku just published in "Modern Haiku," Vol. 56:3, Fall 2025; with my gratitude to the editor, Paul Miller.
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what's your name, singing bird?
and yours, flowering tree?
. . Bumblebee's, I know
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Happy to share another published haiku with you from the latest issue of "Presence," a top haiku journal from the UK ( #82, July 2025):
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there are no stars
above these skyscrapers . . .
and yet, what a moon!
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Read an excellent haiku daily! This wonderful resource is from Cornell University's Mann Library (enjoy!):

Mann Library’s Daily Haiku | Featuring one guest author per month

Wonderful old recording of Robert Spiess (a lion in the haiku community, now passed) defining haiku! From The Haiku Foundation:

The Haiku Foundation Master Clips: Robert Spiess on the Essence of Haiku Robert Spiess was erstwhile editor of Modern Haiku, the flagship journal for English-language haiku. This recording gives his views on what haiku is, and is ...

Happy May Day 2025! I'm delighted to have this new haiku published today in "Under the Basho," with my gratitude to the editor, Marilyn Ashbaugh; link in the comments:
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gathering storm . . .
something of genus Prunus
whirls in the wind
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Another recently published haiku, this one in "Presence," a UK-based journal, Issue #81, March 2025:
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a nip in the air . . .
we swap linen for wool
and rosé for red
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(with my gratitude the to editor, Ian Storr; link in the comments)

New haiku up in DC's flower boxes! Over 4,700 entries were received for the 2025 Golden Triangle DC Haiku Contest, and this was among the 134 chosen for display. Thank you to the judges!

Happy to have this haiku in the March 2025 issue of "The Heron's Nest," Vol. XXVII, No. 1 (link in the comments):
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learning to count
a baker's dozen . . .
sweetcorn stand
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(with my gratitude to the editorial team!)