Issa's Untidy Hut

A book that I recently completed in my morning reading rotation is Things That Happen Where There Aren't Any People , a solid littl...

Photo by Frédéric Lemaréchal In book 3 of R. H. Blyth's classic 4-volume Haiku , there are a number of sections on particular s...

  Back in 2011 at the Haiku North America Conference in Seattle, poet  Jerry Ball addressed a large roomful of haiku poets, practitioner...

R. H Blyth Portrait from the British Haiku Society webpage   In the introduction to Haiku, Volume 3: Summer and Autumn , by R. H...

Note : Following last week's post, here is Part II on The Little Treasury of Haiku . As I write this note, it is looking like there wi...

R. H. Blyth is the author, commentator, and translator of two separate sets of seminal publications on haiku: the 4 volume Haiku (V. 1 Eas...

Cover by Wayne Hogan Over the last few weeks, I've been reading a wide variety of material, including a biography of Basho, Mary Oliver...

Following Thursday's post, I got an email from the intrepid Ed Baker , pointing out that Masoka Shiki was such a great fan of baseball t...

This past week at the library, I picked up and read Selected Poems by Masaoka Shiki . Shiki is one of the 4 cornerstone's of classic h...