current issue: Volume 57.2 Summer 2026

 

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Fencing with the Moon, by Julie Schwerin (Georgetown, Ky.: Finishing Line Press, 2025). 90 pages; 6 × 9. Matte four-color card covers; perfectbound. ISBN 979-8-89990-289-5. Price: $22.99 from online booksellers.

Soseki Natsume’s Collected Haiku: 1,000 verses from Japan’s Most Popular Writer, trans. and introduced by Erik R. Lofgren (Tokyo & Vermont: Tuttle, 2024). 312 pages; 8.25 × 5.5. Matte four-color book jacket; hardcover. ISBN 978-4-8053-1845-4. Price: $19-99 from online booksellers.

Soseki Natsume: A Collection of Haiku in Irish, English, and Greek, by Gabriel Rosenstock (Ireland: Ababuna, 2026). 66 pages; 8.25 × 5.75. Matte four-color card covers; perfectbound. ISBN 978-1-918058-16- 1. Available from online booksellers.

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"Daoism in the Development of Haiku:
An Interview with Peipei Qiu, Ph.D."
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Robert Epstein

"Haiku’s Internal Dynamics
and the Ethics of Reading"
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Adam Graham

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