Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, everyone!
Mark your calendar for Haiku Holiday on the last Saturday in April, 2026. Our featured guest will be poet and editor Roberta Beary.
Crystal Simone Smith and other members of the Carolina African American Writers Collective will read from their new collection of haibun:Griots: Keepers of the Story, A Collection of Haibun (Unicorn Press, 2026).
Details and photos from past Haiku Holidays are available here.
Poems from Crystal Simone Smith’s Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound, set to song by Shawn E. Okpebholo, are GRAMMY-Nominated!
Runagate also won the Roanoke-Chowan Award for Poetry from the North Carolina Literary & Historical Association. Some of Crystal’s haiku were recently featured on the Rattle website.
Speaking of Rattle, Roberta Beary was interviewed for a recent Rattlecast.
Kate MacQueen’s video haiga, “Pulled from Sleep,” was featured in The Haiku Foundation’s Haiku Life series earlier this year.
Matt Snyder, who developed the My Fellow Poets feature on our website, is doing great work as Associate Editor of the new haiku journal, Confluence.
Matt’s haiku below was featured in this year’s Poetry in Plain Sight series.
Terri French is a longtime Haibun Editor for contemporary haibun online. For cho 21.3, Terri selected haibun by Roberta Beary, Glenn G. Coats, Kate MacQueen, Alexis Rotella, and me. Terri and I have haibun in the staff section, way down at the bottom.
