A New Resonance 9: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku, edited by Jim Kacian and Dee Evetts

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Shortlisted for the Touchstone Distinguished Books Award 2015 by The Haiku Foundation!

New Resonance poets now number more than 150. They have won scads of contests, their subsequent books have been accorded the honor of serious and adulatory review and critique, and many are recognized amongst the leaders of literary haiku in their respective countries and around the world. These seventeen new members to this rather exclusive confederacy, then, have a very high standard against which to measure themselves, but equally high expectations of their ultimate position in the haiku community. This is the ninth volume in a series that has won several Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Award in its first eight appearances.

     another talk
     that's only in my head . . .
     summer rain
          — Stewart Baker

          spring for a day until one day spring
               — Brad Bennett

     chrysanthemum unpetalling the scent of rain
          — Claire Everett

          all day
          sensing plums ripen
          it's you again
               — Kate S. Godsey

     the waiter asks
     if I'm alone —
     winter clouds
          — Cara Holman

          yard gate closed —
          someone else's
          knot
               — P M F Johnson

     too soon to call it love new ice
          — Gregory Longenecker

          flotsam shore how it all came to this
               — Jonathan McKeown

     steeping tea
     the time it takes to lose a street
     to snow
          — Ben Moeller-Gaa

          spider's silk
          the tensile strength
          of dreams
               — Beverly Acuff Momoi

     no longer friends
     the aftertaste
     of imported ale
          — Polona Oblak

          clear night sky and how the light echoes
               — Thomas Powell

     pewter sky
     the litany
     of the ocean
          — Brendan Slater

          the closest
          I'll ever be
          to sentimental
          a room full of hats
               — William Sorlien

     her eyes
     say yes
     fireflies
          — Michelle Tennison

          at the end of each second a little jiggle
               — Scott Terrill

     winter solstice . . .
     a thought draws me to the depths
     of the cedar chest
          — Julie Warther

ISBN: 978-1-936848-42-3
Pages: 176
Size: 5.5" x 8.25"
Binding: perfect softbound

This reprinted edition may vary slightly in format, but contains all the content of the original Red Moon Press edition.