Recent Releases from Red Moon Press
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where the wind turns, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, edited by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff
where the wind turns is the fourteenth volume in this most awarded series in the history of English-language haiku. It collects the best haiku and related writings from around the world in the calendar year 2009 as selected by the eleven distinguished members of our editorial board. The result is 161 poems, 12 linked pieces and 6 critical works which encapsulate the very best writing of the haiku world in English this year. Continue Reading
more wine, haiku by William M. Ramsey
more wine, is the sequel to William Ramsey’s celebrated first book of haiku, this wine (2009). Both seek to meld the quietistic impulse of haiku with the theatrical aspects of mystical writing. The result is this inimical style, at once passionate and cerebral, quotidian and outré. Continue Reading
long enough, haiku by Jim Westenhaver
long enough is Jim Westenhaver’s first collection of haiku. It’s cumulative elegiac tone and exuberant language draw the reader into contemplation of time: how much we have, how we spend it. If we’re fortunate and we heed the poet’s words, perhaps we’ll look back at some point and realize we, too, had long enough . . . Continue Reading
Poems of Consciousness: Contemporary Japanese and English-language Haiku in Cross-cultural Perspective, by Richard Gilbert
Ten years in the making, this is the most significant volume of haiku theory and criticism to emerge in English since R. H. Blyth acclaimed 4-volume Haiku.... Continue Reading
A New Resonance 6: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts
With the publication of this volume the number of poets in the New Resonance community grows to more than one hundred. New Resonance poets have won innumerable contests, their subsequent books have been accorded the honor of serious and adulatory review and critique... Continue Reading
Postscript Series, from Red Moon Press
Red Moon Press announces the Postscript Series, a series of chapbooks designed to honor recently deceased haiku poets. Each chapbook is culled from the entire oeuvre of the poet's lifetime, with an eye to what made these poets both distinctive and ahead of their time. Each book is handmade in limited quantities. At present there are fourteen titles available, featuring the haiku of Kay F. Anderson, Marianne Bluger, L.A. Davidson, Lorraine Ellis Harr, William J. Higginson, James Kirkup, Günther Klinge, Wim Lofvers, Robert Major, Darko Plazanin, Francine Porad, Tony Quagliano, W. J. van der Molen and Paul O. Williams. Thanks to Charles Trumbull and his Haiku Database Project for helping to locate and verify the haiku in these publications.... Postscript Series