Essays, Art and Plays by Dan

Below are links to my Book of the Week features for the Haiku Foundation in 2025. It sure was rewarding to correspond with the authors and promote their poetry.

All through 2025, we’ve wandered the quiet paths of haiku together. These selections have given us pause, sparked wonder, and sometimes offered comfort in unexpected places. Whether you were drawn to the hush of Peggy Willis Lyles’ Still at the Edge, the courage of Hifsa Ashraf’s Running After Shadows, or the reflections of Kwaku Feni Ado’s Between Two Dates, we hope something in these pages meant something to you.

Below are the books we featured this year—linked by author, waiting to be opened again. If a line stayed with you, if a book felt like a conversation you didn’t want to end, we hope you’ll tell us.

• Ado, Kwaku Feni – Between Two Dates, May 19, 2025.
• Antonio, Billy – Exposed Wishes, April 1, 2025.
• Ashraf, Hifsa – Running After Shadows, January 6, 2025.
• Baird, Don – Ink Zero: Where Brushstroke Meets Breath, July 7, 2025.
• Barrett, Herb – A Shadow in the Wind, November 3, 2025.
• Bell, Amanda – Undercurrents, August 4, 2025.
• Bluger, Marianne – Early Evening Pieces, June 16, 2025.
• Bogojević, Dejan – White Days: An Anthology of Serbian Haiku, November 17, 2025.
• Caldwell, Grant – blue balloon, March 17, 2025.
• Chatterjee, Kanchan – Scattered Leaves, September 15, 2025.
• Ford, Lorin – A Wattle Seedpod, December 15, 2025.
• Gurga, Lee – Without Syntax, February 17, 2025.
• Jastermsky, Peter – Failed States, January 20, 2025.
• Kacian, Jim – Where I Leave Off, June 2, 2025.
• Kelsey, Julie Bloss – The Call of Wildflowers, May 5, 2025.
• Kocher, Philomeme – Signs of Spring, July 21, 2025.
• Liljedahl, Marcus – Between Now and Now, March 3, 2025.
• Lyles, Peggy Willis – Still at the Edge, April 14, 2025.
• O’Sullivan, Maeve – Wasp on the Prayer Flag, October 20, 2025.
• Rosenstock, Gabriel – I Am Jonah, December 1, 2025.
• Summers, Alan – Forbidden Syllables, February 3, 2025.
• Swede, George – Endangered Metaphors, October 6, 2025.
• Uemura, Taeko – The Dancing Venus, September 1, 2025.
• Wirth, Klaus-Dieter – Voices of Stones, August 18, 2025.

This is my last post for the Book of the Week features.. It has been a great experience to be part of the dedicated THF team and to correspond with such enthusiastic haiku authors and supporters.

Take care amigas and amigos,
Dan