New to Haiku: 2025 Year-End Roundup

Happy New Year, New to Haiku friends!

As I sit here, grateful for my family and friends (and full of holiday treats), I’m thinking back over 2025. Some haiku poets choose to compile a year-end roundup of their publications and post it on social media. This can be a fun way to remind yourself of your poetic accomplishments––of all the places your words have travelled in the past year. Likewise, it can also bring to mind disappointment, perhaps even negative self-comparisons with other, more prolific poets. For me, if I am honest, year-end reflection on haiku publication brings me a mix of both.

Not so, however, when I look to New to Haiku! I’m pleased with this column and the mix of content I’ve been able to provide here. I’m thankful for the poets who have shared and offered their time and words to make this space a warm and welcoming on-ramp for the haiku community.

So, in case you missed any posts, here is a select summary of New to Haiku columns for 2025, marked by category. Happy reading! Thanks for visiting here. And let me know what type of posts you’d like to see more of in 2026 in the comments.

Advice for Beginners interviews with Julie Bloss Kelsey

• John S Green
• Kathleen O’Toole
• Laurie Greer
• Mary Stevens
• Michael Smeer
• petro c.k.
• Roberta Beach Jacobson
• Tomislav Maretić

Haiku Basics

• Can You Write Haiku in the Past Tense? by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• Discover the Joys of Collaboration by kjmunro (For more on kjmunro, see also An Introduction to THF’s Haiku Dialogue)
• Going Wide: Submitting Haiku in the General Poetry World by Kat Lehmann
• How to Write a Poet Bio by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• Jump into Haiku by Michael Dylan Welch
• Kire and Punctuation by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• Moments in Haiku by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• Negative Space: Some Thoughts on Ma by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• Opening Doors: In Praise of the Thesaurus by Brad Bennett
• Polishing Our Intent––A Collaborative Essay on Revising Haiku by the Noodle Bowl Haiku Group (Mimi Ahern, Jennifer Burd, Deborah Burke Henderson, Laszlo Slomovits, Kathryn Liebowitz, and Brad Bennett)
• Tips for Selecting Your Own Haiku (and Senryu) for Submission by Julie Bloss Kelsey
• Traveling Outside of Our Routines: Finding Haiku Inspiration by Julie Bloss Kelsey

Interviews with Haiku Educators by Charlotte Digregorio

• An Interview with a Haiku Educator: Charlotte Digregorio talks with regina harris baiocchi
• Living a Haiku Life in the Mississippi Delta: An Interview with John Zheng

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