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.

In 2011 Modern Haiku Press published an anthology of haiku and haiku-related verse (ku) titled Haiku 21. The poems in that anthology were all published between 2000 to 2010. Part of the editors’ intention in producing Haiku 21 was to encourage poets to expand the range of what they were willing to do creatively and still call their poems “haiku.”

Haiku 21.2 extends the project begun with Haiku 21 by presenting haiku and related poems from the second decade of the century.

Perfectbound, 282 pages.

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Modern Haiku Press
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Champaign, IL 61825

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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