Category Archives: Japan

Attention: All Lovers of Issa & Beginning Haikuists, too – Don’t Miss this Audiobook!

Posted on May 11, 2024 by Charlotte Digregorio

Those of you who’ve been writing haiku for a long time will remember “Write like Issa: A Haiku How-To” by Professor David G. Lanoue, a former president of the Haiku Society of America. The book was published in 2017. Great … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: April 27, 2024

Posted on April 26, 2024 by Charlotte Digregorio

deep in the cave the silence of our flashlights   by Ben Gaa (USA) Four Hundred and Two Snails Haiku Society of America Members’ Anthology, 2018

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Daily Haiku: March 16, 2024

Posted on March 15, 2024 by Charlotte Digregorio

thunder the roses shift into shadow by Roberta Beary (USA/Ireland) Grand Prize International Kusamakura Competition, Japan, 2005

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Daily Haiku: March 8, 2024

Posted on March 7, 2024 by Charlotte Digregorio

far Japan now as close as the tip of my brush by Lidia Rozmus (Poland) Frogpond, 37.3, Spring/Summer, 2014

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Daily Haiku: March 4, 2024 –Congratulations to Roberta Beary!

Posted on March 3, 2024 by Charlotte Digregorio

war zone a soldier unhands the firefly by Roberta Beary (USA/Ireland) Grand Prize (out of 1,204 submissions) 28th International Kusamakura Competition, Japan https://kusamakura-haiku.jp/index_e.html

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Daily Haiku: Oct. 29, 2023

Posted on October 28, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

sunset one last swath of corn before the combine by Jim Kacian (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 37.2, Summer 2006

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Tanka by Michael Fessler (Japan)

Posted on September 12, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

Longtime author and poet of Japanese forms, Michael Fessler of Japan, has just published a tanka collection. Below are five sample poems from this generous and thoughtful book titled “Also.” I go to the end of the train platform fewer … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku Special, Sept. 2, 2023: Longtime Haikuist Publishes New Collection

Posted on September 1, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

Robert Witmer of Japan, longtime poet and contributor to The Daily Haiku, has just published Serendipity. It contains twenty-four haibun  and hundreds of haiku and senryu arranged into thirteen thematic sequences. Four sample poems from the book follow: wormholes in … Continue reading →

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Daily Haiku: June10, 2023

Posted on June 9, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

three months maybe four . . . she buys a ukulele by Harriot West (USA) Modern Haiku, Vol. 37.3, Autumn 2006

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Daily Haiku Special: May 8, 2023, with Robert Witmer

Posted on May 7, 2023 by Charlotte Digregorio

  stray cat yawning in the sun the busker’s slide trombone     shoemaker the smell of leather in the palm reader’s hands       by Robert Witmer (Japan) Presence, Issue #75, March 2023

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