Keith Evetts, Author at The Haiku Foundation

re:Virals 544

David Cox—the genie is out of the bottle:enlightenment! Commentaries on "speechless this evening I'm a lamp" by Ella Aboutboul

re:Virals 541-1

Supplementary essay by Orense Nicod based on this week's verse: "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy

re:Virals 541

Dan Campbell—wisdom without ceremony, with a smile: commentaries on "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy

re:Virals 537

Orense Nicod—not knowing the answers: commentaries on "my wife left me / does this heavy rain at dusk / fall where she is" by Jerry Gill

re:Virals 536

Richard Straw—isn’t a poem itself a song? Commentaries on "Grasshoppers… / I can’t run or jump / anymore" by Satoru Kanematsu

re:Virals 535

Housekeeping, nominations and haiku-dō...

re:Virals 531

Ashoka Weerakkody—that unfulfilled desire: commentaries on "sailboats / or just seagulls / far away" by Mirela Brailean

re:Virals 527

Jonathan Epstein—feeling calm and centered: commentaries on "cousins' meet-up— / getting used to being / the older generation" by Maeve O'Sullivan

re:Virals 522

Jonathan Epstein—the good, the bad and the ugly: commentaries on "Dad’s harmonica / blues in the key / of dust" by Edward Cody Huddleston

re:Virals 518

Pamela Garry—the cutting word: commentaries on "only on days ending in why another mass shooting" by Julie Schwerin

re: Virals 514

Sudha Devi Nayak—a quiet slip into oblivion: commentaries on "nightfall / slipping into the pond / without a splash" by Simon Hanson

re:Virals 510

Sudha Devi Nayak—there is no charm in a still chime: commentaries on "chime shop / the dialects / of wind" by Peter Newton

re:Virals 508

Harrison Lightwater—through the optic of haiku, it's poetry: commentaries on "drying on the clothesline raindrops" by Srini

re:Virals 506

Jonathan Epstein—the monumentality of literary allusion: commentaries on "Ides of March / snowmelt down the rainspout / floods the alley" by Chad Henry

re:Virals 504

Sitarama Seshu Maringanti—dust thou art: commentaries on "Rained from the morning’s / Clear blue, / Settling on peony petals, too / Ash from Mt Asama." By Tito (Stephen Gill)