Now available from Modern Haiku Press:
 
Haiku 21.2: an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku.
Edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz
With an introduction by the editors
Modern Haiku Press, 2025

Over 800 haiku by more than 400 poets.

BEST HAIKU ANTHOLOGY (shared)
Haiku Society of America
Merit Books Awards for 2026
 
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Judges Comments:

The second installment in the 21st century anthology of “notable” haiku by thoughtful and daring editors. Whereas Haiku 21 covered 2000-2010, H21.2 attends to the years 2011-2020, thus offering a totally new selection of open, allusive, challenging haiku that run the gamut from concrete to abstract expression, contemporary to avant-garde form. For those who wonder what else can haiku be, look no further for fresh use of conventional imagery and new amalgams of minimalist disjunction. H21.2 is chock-full of poetic energy and innovation.

Perfectbound, 282 pages.

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A Review of Haiku 21:

Why would a poet who writes 1,000-page poems read haiku? Or pay heed to any manner of minimalism, for that matter? That’s a legitimate question, and one that I asked myself for at least a year before I felt that I fully understood my own personal answer. It’s because the questions of attention are so very similar. There is, in the minimalist poem generally, nowhere to hide. The poet’s attention — and hopefully the reader’s as well, though that’s a different discussion altogether — has to be utterly present. Every detail has to be attended. Individual letters & phonemes are revealed to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. ... As more haiku poets became aware of other, sympatico modes of writing, the range of what’s possible has expanded. This is Haiku 21’s core message.

                    ~Ron Silliman