Jumble Box: Haiku and Senryu from National Haiku Writing Month

by Michael Dylan Welch, Ron C. Moss (Illustrator)

NATIONAL HAIKU WRITING MONTH, also known as NaHaiWriMo, celebrates the world’s shortest poetry. When? Every February, the year’s shortest month. This book’s 324 haiku and senryu represent 100 participating poets from around the world, selected by NaHaiWriMo founder Michael Dylan Welch. Ron C. Moss contributes haiga artwork for 28 featured poems. Open the jumble box!

“NaHaiWriMo gets me writing every day.” —Johnny Baranski, Vancouver, Washington

“NaHaiWriMo is an endless inspiration!!” —Kashinath Karmakar, Durgapur, India

“Thanks, NaHaiWriMo, for being my psychotherapist for February.” —Michael Nickels-Wisdom, Spring Grove, Illinois

“NaHaiWriMo offers a sense of community and belonging and sharing—it is just wonderful!” —Daphne Purpus, Vashon, Washington

“I did it—one haiku a day throughout February! And now I’m not sure if I can stop.” —Tore Sverredal, Göteborg, Sweden

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240 pages, Paperback

Published August 28, 2017

About the author

MICHAEL DYLAN WELCH is a poet and editor who lives near Seattle, Washington. He has published his poetry, essays, and reviews in hundreds of journals and anthologies, including three Norton poetry anthologies, and his poems have been translated into at least twenty languages. He edited the poetry journals Woodnotes and Tundra, and he also runs a small press, called Press Here (since 1989). From 2013 to 2015 he served as poet laureate for Redmond, Washington. He has won first place in numerous poetry contests, and in 2012 a translation from one of his books (cotranslated from the Japanese with Emiko Miyashita) appeared on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps. He is also a contributing editor to "Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society," and has been a longtime officer of the Haiku Society of America. He also founded the Tanka Society of America, and served as its president for five years. Michael is founder of National Haiku Writing Month (www.nahaiwrimo.com), and his personal website, devoted mostly to poetry, is www.graceguts.com.