Failed Haiku

09/01/2025

https://failedhaiku.com/2025/08/31/issue-111-is-live/

If Issue #110 was about innovation, I would say that Issue #111 is about gravity—and not without good reason. Many of us are dealing with health issues, caring for a loved one or perhaps grieving a…

05/07/2025

New Issue of Failed Haiku

05/01/2025

https://failedhaiku.com/2025/04/30/gratitude-and-issue-109/ -2507

Once again, you all have touched my heart and I can’t help but to express my thanks. For what, you ask? For entrusting me with not only your work but the truest parts of yourselves. Each issue, you…

02/15/2025

Changes! Please READ!!! -

Going forward Kelly Moyer will be the EDITOR of Failed Haku! I have total confidence in her and love her spirit and creativity. All submissions for the next full issue should be directed to her at: [email protected]. Kelly is a dear friend, and I am so happy to know her, and for her love of FH....

01/01/2025

https://failedhaiku.com/2024/12/31/happy-new-year-issue-106/

Well, what do you know? It’s 2025. Looking at it on paper, I feel as though we must have been transported into some futuristic dime store paperback–and, well, maybe so. All I know is that not all t…

12/24/2024

Issue 105- And Holiday Greetings -

Issue 105 is now up and available for your reading! There are poems chosen simply because they felt ‘interesting’ to me. Take a read and enjoy while waiting for Issue 106, which begins our TENTH YEAR of Failed Haiku! The following had their poems selected:

12/01/2024

https://failedhaiku.com/2024/11/30/issue-105-invitation-only-edition-is-up-and-two-new-videos/

I have selected ten poems from the last issue and given a short commentary. Just enjoyed the last issue so much, that I wanted to highlight a few of the ones that seemed special to me and share the…

11/14/2024

Issue 104 - Jane Reichhold Haiga Contest Results! -

Issue 104 is now up and available for your reading! This one is the largest issue ever and to make things easier we have separted Senryu, Haiga, and Haibun. Download all three and enjoy!

11/05/2024

https://failedhaiku.com/2024/11/04/issue-104-hot-off-the-press-and-is-kelly-ever-smiling/

Mike and I are delighted to present this very special issue of Failed Haiku, chock full of senryu-esque expressions from newbies to legends alike. The contributors who made this issue possible held…