turtle dreams: The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2025, edited by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff

Description

The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku each year assembles the finest haiku and related forms published around the world into a single book. This volume, thirtith in the most honored series in the history of English-language haiku, comprises 165 poems (haiku and senryu), 23 linked forms (haibun, renku, rengay and sequences), and 6 critical pieces on the reading, writing and study of the genre.

bone density
my childhood wish
to be a bird
     — Marilyn Ashbaugh (United States)

                    summer solstice
                    connecting the old hose
                    to the new
                         — Marjorie Buettner (United States)

          hospital gown
          what insurance covers
          and doesn’t
               — Bob Lucky (Portugal)

big box store 
the bird I become 
inside
     — Peter Newton (United States)

                    most of me
                    hidden from myself
                    first quarter moon
                         — Pearl Pirie (Canada)

          edging into autumn . . .
          a blackberry that is
          and isn't sweet
               — Tony Williams (Scotland)

ISBN: 978-1-958408-82-7
Pages: 194
Size: 5.5″ x 8.25″
Binding: perfect softbound
Year Published: 2026