The Best Haiku 2021 Inaugural International Anthology


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"This first, annual collection is the result of an online search for the best haiku. Here's the story... as a busy writing coach, manuscript editor, and school educator, I often told others that I couldn't find the time to read for my own pleasure. Then, during a trip to return a family member's overdue books, I was attracted to the library's poetry section. While scanning the many titles, I noted dozens of books about traditional and modern haiku. Standing there between shelves, I had an epiphany that was more like a confession: I easily could find the time to read 17 syllables a day. No excuse! "After finishing the library books, I set up a Twitter account and named it Haiku Crush @HaikuCrush so I could tweet my crushes on poets writing haiku. I quickly rediscovered and appreciated one of writing's oldest and shortest forms. If a haiku was reflective, inspiring, clever, or emotionally moving, then I liked it and shared it with others. "Next, I recruited my son and two friends to help me launch the Annual Search for the Best Haiku on a new website I created -- HaikuCrush.com -- where many writers submitted hundreds of haiku. Haiku Crush's team judged each of them. The rest of the story is this inaugural anthology of winning haiku... which I hope you'll also find the time to appreciate!" -- Stephen FitzGerald




Haiku 2021


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The Best Haiku 2023 International Anthology


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This collection is the result of an online search for the best haiku. Here's the backstory... as a busy writing coach, manuscript editor and public school educator, Stephen FitzGerald often told others that he couldn't find the time to read for his own pleasure. Then, during a trip to return a family member's overdue books, he was drawn to the library's poetry section. While scanning the many titles on a shelf, he saw dozens of books about traditional and modern haiku. There, facing the books, he had an epiphany that was more of a confession: He certainly had the time for 17 syllables a day. Now, there was no excuse not to read and enjoy haiku! The result is The Best Haiku 2023 International Anthology, the third annual collection in the series of winning haiku from around the world!




Haiku 2021


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Haiku Moment


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Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu. This remarkably frank autobiographical diary and personal confession attempts to describe a difficult relationship as it reveals two tempestuous decades of the author's unhappy marriage and her growing indignation at rival wives and mistresses. Too impetuous to be satisfied as a subsidiary wife, this beautiful (and unnamed) noblewoman of the Heian dynasty protests the marriage system of her time in one of Japanese literature's earliest attempts to portray difficult elements of the predominant social hierarchy. A classic work of early Japanese prose, The Gossamer Years is an important example of the development of Heian literature, which, at its best, represents an extraordinary flowering of realistic expression, an attempt, unique for its age, to treat the human condition with frankness and honesty. A timeless and intimate glimpse into the culture of ancient Japan, this translation by Edward Seidensticker paints a revealing picture of married life in the Heian period.




Best New African Poets 2021 Anthology


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In Best New African Poets 2021 Anthology there are 18 French speaking African poets from DRC, Congo Brazzaville, Cameroun, Ivory Coast, Benin, Togo, Chad, Senegal, Comoros and more... 14 Portuguese speaking poets from Angola, Sao Tome and Principe, Mozambique and 63 English speaking African poets from among other countries, South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zambia, Tanzania, Ghana, Gambia, Sierra Leone. A full gamut of issues is dissected, from love, marriage, relationships, spirituality, politics, culture, tradition, environmentalism, and the interstellar etc. Included are two collaborations: the first deals with marriage, juxtaposing Monogamy vs Polygamy with the 21th century lived experience; the second imagines humanity living as intergalactic beings. The poets were asked to be imaginative (to be fictional poets), to try to create and imagine human agency in this interstellar civilization approaching. There is also featured 5 group interviews with 5 previous contributors to this series. These interviews were interactive and collaborative, with largely the BNAP groups interviewing a poet, critically engaging with their work and discussing the literary and social aspects the poetry addressed. And lastly 4 reviews of African poetry.




The Best Haiku 2022


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"The Best Haiku annual anthology is a creative and concise collection of winning writers from around the world who submitted their poetry to be judged by a panel of four Haiku Crush ( HaikuCrush.com ) judges. The traditional and modern haiku in this collection were chosen by the judges for their originality in capturing observations and personal experiences -- and their ability to entertain, inspire, and to sometimes reveal the less obvious moments in life." -- Stephen FitzGerald, editor




Haiku Anthology 3e


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"Generous, irreplaceable. . . . It's an eye-opener and a who's-who of haiku today."—Providence Sunday Journal Originally a Japanese form that flourished in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, haiku has recently experienced tremendous growth in popularity in the English language. The Haiku Anthology, first published in 1974, is a landmark work in modern haiku, honoring a genre of poetry that celebrates simplicity, emotion, and imagery—in which only a few words convey worlds of mystery and meaning. This third edition, now completely revised and updated, comprises 850 haiku and senryu (a related genre, usually humorous and concerned with human nature) written in English by 89 poets, including the top haiku writers of the American past and present. A new foreword details developments since the publication of the last edition. "Each of these perfect little poems will come as a revelation to the uninitiated reader and will bring joy to the haiku enthusiast. . . . This is an exceptional selection of English-language haiku at its finest."—Library Booknotes




International Family Poetry Anthology


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This elegant poetry book is very inspirational and uplifting to the mind, body, and soul. Twenty-four internationally acclaimed and inspiring authors and poets worldwide combined their poetic talents to enhance the captivating and artistic verses on the pages with originality and creativity for humanity.  
These enlivening and imaginative verses of simulation are poignant and stem from various beautiful and enhanced settings worldwide.  The distinctive qualify of elegance and moving styles of poetry included on the pages are touching, memorable, and uplifting. They stem from the unique styles of eagle-eyed poets who meticulously observe the more finite details of their natural surroundings and illustrate their innermost thoughts for the enjoyment of others to read with a smiling face. 
One will find the following forms and styles of fluency in the most persuasive and influential language form of speech and written in dialect with highly expressive intonation, rhythm, and the like from these extraordinary poets. They are in various poetic forms such as: haiku, senryu, narrative, freeform, intermittent rhyming sequence, existentialism, visualization, acrostic, and others.  Additionally,  get your appetite ready to eat because the lines will bring saliva to your mouth from the international cuisines and delicacies on the pages.  
The dispersive lexicons of English literature are dynamic and reflect various essence of styles usage. One will note the following: symbolism, dynamic imagery, descriptive excellence, analogy, couplet (a two-lined stanza), tercet (three lines), quatrain series (four lines in the stanza), quintain (a group of five lines), sestet (a group of six lines), emphasis, hyperbole, metaphor, narrative, end rhymes, simile, symbolism, synonym, uniformity, active verbs, variations of tense, analogy, and internal rhymes to give spice and flavor to the poetic words.  


Please don’t hesitate to grab a copy of this “International Poetry Anthology” because they fly off the shelves as soon a customer approaches!




Visiting the Wind


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