Recent Releases from Red Moon Press
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nothing in the window, The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, edited by Jim Kacian and the Red Moon Editorial Staff
nothing in the window is the seventeenth 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 2012 . . . Continue Reading
contemporary haibun volume 14, edited by Jim Kacian, Bruce Ross & Ken Jones
contemporary haibun is a series dedicated to the best haibun and haiga written each year in English from around the world. ch14 features 75 haibun and 23 haiga. Jeffrey Woodward, editor of Haibun Today, writes “contemporary haibun has stood alone, for more than a decade, as the chief vehicle and bulwark of the burgeoning haibun movement in English. Without the vanguard role of this annual anthology, one might reasonably inquire how—and perhaps if—haibun would have survived.”. . . Continue Reading
A New Resonance 8, edited by Jim Kacian & Dee Evetts
A New Resonance 8 brings the number of New Resonance poets to more than 135 in the series’ 15 years of existence. Many of these poets have gone on to publish their own award-winning volumes and gain international reputations in the field. This year’s group is one of the strongest ever, with a variety of styles and emphases that will challenge and charm any reader. The premise of the series is to provide enough room for the individual voice to emerge, still a comparative rarity in the haiku world outside the individual collection. . . Continue Reading
Selected Haiku 1961-2012, haiku by Kaneko Tohta
The first two volumes of the “Kaneko series” provides cultural, historical, aesthetic, and biographic context for the 250 selected haiku found in the third and this fourth volume, with notes, essays and a comprehensive chronology from Kaneko’s entire publishing career . . . .Continue Reading
a Zodiac, haiku by Paul Pfleuger, Jr.
a Zodiac is Paul Pfleuger, Jr.’s long-awaited first full-length collection, in the inimitable style he champions as co-editor of the avant journal Roadrunner. As Richard Gilbert, author of Poems of Consciousness, writes, this is “a rare opportunity to indulge in the refulgence of a poet presenting, with a depth of inquiry, what is new about haiku.”. . . 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 twenty titles available . . . Postscript Series