By Rick Black In Two Seasons in Israel, award-winning book artist and poet Rick Black takes readers on a journey through the stark images of Israel’s landscape—images of peace and war, of hope and fear and the way in which they blend together. Arab and Jew walk past each other: blind alleyway Black, who worked […]
Furrows of Snow
2019 TLP Haiku Chapbook Competition Winner By Glenn G. Coats In this exquisite collection, Furrows of Snow, Glenn G. Coats guides us on a meditative journey down a handful of East Coast rivers. He offers us a timeless celebration of fishing and life on the river as well as poignant reminders of our aging, as […]
The Deep End of the Sky
Haiku Society of America Merit Book Awards Winner 2016 2014 TLP Haiku Chapbook Competition Winner By Chad Lee Robinson Chad Lee Robinson’s The Deep End of the Sky, takes us deep into the heartland of America—and of ourselves. These small poems take us on a journey through the vast expanses of the American prairie, where […]
The Window That Closes
2012 TLP Haiku Chapbook Competition Winner By Graham High $11.95 It is never easy to write about the death of next-of-kin but this top British haiku writer manages to retain the distance and discipline necessary to do so in an unsentimental way. Indeed, High helps us to reaffirm life through this poignant collection of poems. […]
Nick Virgilio: A Life in Haiku
By Nicholas A. Virgilio Touchstone Book Awards 2012, Honorable Mention R. H. Blyth Award 2013 – Honorable Mention $15.95 Edited and Introduced by Raffael de Gruttola, Afterword by Kathleen O’Toole Nick Virgilio, who started writing in the 1960s and was a pioneer of American haiku poetry, penned some of this country’s most elegiac and memorable […]
All That Remains
2010 TLP Haiku Chapbook Competition Winner By Catherine J.S. Lee In this evocative collection of haiku about grappling with loss and change, Lee reflects on memories of loved ones and the Maine landscape of her childhood. A short story writer for many years, Lee currently teaches in a Maine high school special education department. According […]
Sketches from the San Joaquin
2008 TLP Haiku Chapbook Competition Winner By Michael McClintock A poignant collection of haiku that reflects growing up in the San Joaquin Valley in the 1950s and 1960s, the flow of its seasons and the author’s remembrances of life in California. Its cover features a photo of a San Joaquin vineyard atop honey-colored paper; flyleaf […]
Peace and War in Israel
By Rick Black In each of these imagistic poems, peace and war in Israel are juxtaposed in ways that portray the heart-wrenching beauty and sorrow of daily life in this conflict-ridden land. A former reporter with The New York Times in Jerusalem, Rick found it difficult to capture all of the contradictions that he encountered […]
