Modern Haiku

08/14/2025

sweltering long after dark both tomcats

Jeffrey Stillman
Modern Haiku 42.3 (2011)

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08/07/2025

the soldier’s wife
places her letter
on the postal scale

Barbara Sabol
Modern Haiku 46.2 (2015)

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08/05/2025

As if Lee and Scott weren’t busy enough producing Haiku 21.2, they continue their creative output with the latest edition in their annual series.

HAIKU 2025!

100 notable haiku from 2024 selected by the editors of the award-winning Haiku 21.

"Serious poets are not writing randomly, but aiming at specific targets. We must identify these targets if we are to gauge their success. Many, perhaps most, will seek that bull’s eye—the apotheosis of a topic, structure or technique—and the good thing about so aiming is that even if you miss, you’re still liable to hit something of value nearby. Doing so in a time of a genre’s health will produce lots of commendable work."

~ Jim Kacian, from the Afterword

Ordering information at our webpage:

https://modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku2025.html

08/03/2025

As mentioned in our July 20th announcement, international postage rates are shockingly high. As an alternative to a physical copy, we have added Haiku 21.2 to our digital bookshelf.

https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/jorev/

07/31/2025

summer wind …
the whistles of empty
beer bottles

Srinivas S
Modern Haiku 51.1 (2020)

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07/24/2025

if not for the
joshua tree —
falling sky

Marilyn Fleming
Modern Haiku 48.3 (2017)

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07/20/2025

https://www.modernhaiku.org/mhbooks/Haiku21-2.html

Now available from Modern Haiku Press:

Haiku 21.2:
an anthology of contemporary
English-language haiku
Edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz
Haiku 21.2: an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku.
Edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz

With an introduction by the editors
Modern Haiku Press, 2025
Over 800 haiku by more than 400 poets.

In 2011 Modern Haiku Press published an anthology of haiku and haiku-related verse (ku) titled Haiku 21. The poems in that anthology were all published between 2000 to 2010. Part of the editors’ intention in producing Haiku 21 was to encourage poets to expand the range of what they were willing to do creatively and still call their poems “haiku.” Haiku 21.2 extends the project begun with Haiku 21 by presenting haiku and related poems from the second decade of the century.
Perfectbound, 282 pages.

An apology from Modern Haiku Press to non-U.S. buyers:
Unfortunately, we have no control over postage rates. Because of the size of the book, we are forced to send it as an “international parcel.” You will find the postage rates quoted to us as outrageous as we did. In fact, the shipping rates quoted on the ordering page are less than the rates quoted to us by the Post Office. This means that, for all practical purposes, MHP is subsidizing the shipping for all non-U.S. buyers. If, however, there is any substantial discrepancy between the rates we quote and what is actually charged, we can refund the difference if you bring it to our attention. Thank you for your understanding.

07/17/2025

stone
outsitting
the turtle

Lawrence Rungren
Modern Haiku 17.1 (1986)

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07/10/2025

seagull or kite —
for the wind
what difference

Wanda D. Cook
Modern Haiku 42.1 (2011)

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07/06/2025

Dear Friends,

After a bit of a delay the summer issue of Modern Haiku is out and in the mail to all subscribers!

It contains the results of the 2025 Robert Spiess awards, an essay on the Short-Longer-Longest form of haiku by Brad Bennett, and Masaya Saito’s translation of Saito Sanki’s 1953 essay “An Appreciation of Nakamura Kusatao: Ten of His Haiku Which I Recite to Myself with Affection." We also share a Poetry Gallery from Agnes Eva Savich, plus over three hundred haiku and senryu, haibun, and reviews of the latest books.

Copies and/or subscriptions are still available at our website:

https://modernhaiku.org

A pdf version can be purchased online at:

https://fliphtml5.com/bookcase/jorev/

Modern Haiku magazine is a leading English language haiku magazine, publishing haiku, haibun, senryu, essays and book reviews related to contemporary haiku.

07/03/2025

Independence Day
the smallest house is flying
the biggest flag

William Hart
Modern Haiku 38.2 (2007)

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06/29/2025

We are excited to announce a new book of haibun from our editor Roberta Beary, entitled “Crazy Bi***es.” Published by Clare MacQueen’s MacQ Press, it contains twenty years of Beary’s haibun. We think Beary is one of the strongest writers going, their work always surprising, often heartbreaking, but never predictable. Check it out!

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of this full-length collection by my favorite haiku poet and haibunista, Roberta Beary, Touchstone Award-winning poet and long-time haibun editor at Modern Haiku. This book features 80 haibun selected by yours truly, in collaboration with the author, from p...