Publishing. Could there be a more loaded word? It’s loaded with hopes and dreams of getting vetted by selection. Vindication leading to canonization and being part of the conversation. For my day job, I am a journalist. Journalists talk a lot about a few of these aspects — namely, selection, vetting and  conversation. How do [...]

Wouldn’t it be great if we had better records? If Thomas Wentworth Higginson had digital recording equipment, he might have augmented his recorded insights into Emily Dickinson: Interspersed with these confidences came phrases so emphasized as to seem the very wantonness of over-statement, as if she pleased herself with putting into words what the most [...]

We’ve had so much going on lately that we forgot to mention that we’ve updated THF Haiku App, our app for the Apple platform. The latest version includes almost 400 new poems that we selected from the Haiku Registry. Early in 2012, Billie Wilson and Jim Kacian contacted as many poets in the Haiku Registry [...]

Hi Folks: I’m happy so many of you were able to participate in one or another of the many National Haiku Poetry Day events that took place across the country. But I know you couldn’t get to them all, so here’s a chance to read up here on what happened where you weren’t. We look [...]

If you love haiku, you probably feel a special connection to a poet. That connection might begin when a single poem sends a thrill through you, a jolt of recognition. How does that happen and why? Through what art is the poet able to reach out to you through language, sound, rhythm, image? What of [...]