Acorn Haiku

Biannual print journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku.

[Acorn Haiku @AcornHaiku]

Have finally moved over to Blue Sky! Let's connect at [email protected]
Acorn #54 will go in the mail next week. Sample poems coming soon!

[Debbie Strange archive of selected published©️work @Debbie_Strange]

Acorn: TY @AcornHaiku 💐

chorus frogs
a boy's fingernail
strums his comb

weathered oars
we fold our worries
into the river

prairie heatwave
a kestrel's wing fans
the grass

a camouflaged burrow the creature within me

season's end a loon stirs sunset into the lake

#haiku

[Wales Haiku Journal @WalesHaiku]

This #haiku begins the our Autumn Edition, released today...

You can continue the journey here...

https://t.co/unZbAkhFpK

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

so important not to half-ass your poems. you gotta full-ass whole-butt that poetry

[Dr. Maya C. Popa @MayaCPopa]

"How can you be gone when I still love you?"

— Declan Ryan

[Alex Dimitrov @apoemcalledlove]

I love to read in bed in the middle of the day

[Mike Rehling @MikeRehling]

New (old) editors and new Submission Guides!!! https://t.co/TWaxyNjEHh via @SenryuJournal

[Regina Rosenfeld @ReginaRosenfeld]

I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.

— Sharon Olds

[Shane Schick @shaneschick]

"I am, I am, and you are, you are,
we wrote, until the paper seemed a tree again."

A tender, shimmering moment from Deborah Landau's unparalled 'Soft Targets'

[Kazuko M. @EstherHawdon]

"traveling geese --
the human heart, too
wanders" Issa Kobayashi

(images: Koson Ohara / Shoen Uemura)

[The Paris Review @parisreview]

“To be influenced by somebody is not to write like him or her; rather, someone’s work suddenly opens up new possibilities that you never thought of before.”

From a lecture given by Fredric Jameson. https://t.co/vEPFQN6k4N

[𝓛𝓾𝓱𝓪𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓮𝓷 @luhaenten]

I've fallen in love with Alex Dimitrov's conception of love

[Acorn Haiku @AcornHaiku]

A favorite:

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

O, how we entertain the angels
with our brief animation. O,

how I’ll miss you when we’re dead.

—Nicole Sealey, from "Object Permanence"

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

there's a kind of writerly trap in thinking "be specific" = "be elaborately detailed" when often it means to sharpen/deepen. more detail won't help if it's superfluous. one revealing detail can say it all. further descriptiveness won't help if what's needed is insight or truth

[Acorn Haiku @AcornHaiku]

How're people doing with today's Wordle? Just wondering...

[Haiku North America @haikunortham]

HNA is now on YouTube! Our channel is brand-new, but if you subscribe now, you'll be the first to know when we post our first video! https://t.co/qIB7qxV1UA

[Acorn Haiku @AcornHaiku]

@laughingyeti Acorn will open for submissions (haiku only!!) on July 1. Submission guidelines at https://t.co/zGMNTqz8EW

[Acorn Haiku @AcornHaiku]

💔

[tinywords @tinywords]

misting flowers
my late father
in Street View

-Jeffrey Ferrara
https://t.co/H8rHLC90mt

[Acorn Haiku @AcornHaiku]

@shortpoemz @themainichi @susanantolin @Pride @DublinPride @ItGetsBetter 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼😍

[Penguin Books UK @PenguinUKBooks]

'Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by someone I do not know.'

John Keats, in a letter to his sister