Books of the Week in 2025
Below are links, by author, to each Book of the Week feature in 2025.
Book of the Week – A Wattle Seedpod by Lorin Ford
Lorin Ford’s The Wattle Seedpod opens the reader to an Australia seen through haiku eyes.
Book of the Week – I Am Jonah by Gabriel Rosenstock
In MÉ IÓNA / I AM JONAH, Gabriel Rosenstock hands Jonah a haiku instead of a pulpit.
Book of the Week – White Days (Beli Dani): An Anthology of Serbian Haiku by Dejan Bogojević
White Days (Beli Dani) is an anthology of Serbian haiku by seven poets.
Book of the Week – A Shadow in the Wind by Herb Barrett
Herb Barrett offers more than a collection of haiku and senryu—he gifts us a series of still frames from life’s reel.
Book of the Week – Wasp on the Prayer Flag by Maeve O’Sullivan
The collection spans 2018 to 2021 and is divided into four parts—Seasons, Sequences, Senryu, and Pandemic.
Book of the Week – Endangered Metaphors by George Swede
n Endangered Metaphors, George Swede doesn’t just write poems—he drops pebbles into the still water of our minds.
Book of the Week – Scattered Leaves by Kanchan Chatterjee
Like autumn’s hush through bamboo groves, Scattered Leaves drifts gently, yet lingers with quiet force.
Book of the Week – The Dancing Venus by Taeko Uemura
In her collection Neo-Epoch Haiku: The Dancing Venus, Taeko Uemura crafts a peculiar bridge—an arched passageway where ancient haiku meets the sprawling modern cosmos.
Book of the Week – Voices of Stones by Klaus-Dieter Wirth
Reading Klaus-Dieter Wirth’s Voices of Stones feels a bit like stepping into a quiet room and realizing it’s not empty.
Book of the Week – Undercurrents by Amanda Bell
Undercurrents is the kind of poetry collection that doesn’t shout for attention—it whispers.
Book of the Week – Signs of Spring: Haiku Poems by Soul Session Poets (compiled by Philomene Kocher & Marjorie Woodbridge)
Signs of Spring: Haiku Poems by Persons with Dementia captures these glimpses with luminous clarity. Through haiku, it reminds us that even as memory shifts, the essence of self remains.
Book of the Week – Ink Zero: Where Brushstroke Meets Breath by Don Baird and Richard Gilbert
Ink Zero is a stunning fusion of contemporary haiku and sumi-e ink art.
Book of the Week – Early Evening Pieces by Marianne Bluger
Early Evening Pieces is a quiet meditation on the passage of time.
Book of the Week – Where I Leave Off by Jim Kacian
Where I Leave Off is an exploration of the one-line haiku form.
Book of the Week – Between Two Dates by Kwaku Feni Ado
Between Two Dates lingers in the space between life and death, drawing us into a quiet meditation on impermanence.
Book of the Week – The Call of Wildflowers by Julie Bloss Kelsey
In the lineage of Issa and modern haiku mothers alike, Julie writes not only of seasons and children, but of the tender ache of presence and absence—of lives begun, grown, and sometimes lost.
Book of the Week – Still at the Edge by Peggy Willis Lyles
Peggy Willis Lyles’ poetry occupies a unique space within the tradition of contemporary nature writing.
Book of the Week – Exposed Wishes by Billy Antonio
Billy Antonio’s Exposed Wishes feels like stepping into a stripped-down theater.
Book of the Week – blue balloon by Grant Caldwell
Grant Caldwell’s Blue Balloon reimagines the haiku, blending Zen principles with urban imagery.