Barlow, John, and Martin Lucas, eds. The New Haiku. Liverpool: Snapshot Press, 2002.
This germinal anthology was just reprinted, and I ordered a copy as soon as I heard they were available.
Durand, Marcella, and Jennifer Firestone, eds. Other Influences: An Untold History of Feminist Avant-Garde Poetry. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2024.
This is a collection of essays by feminist poets about some of their influences. I read an excerpt from it online that I enjoyed, so I decided to buy the book.
Hendrix, Raye. What Good is Heaven: Poems. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2024.
This is Hendrix’s first full-length collection. I’ve read her two chapbooks and enjoyed them, partly because she writes about OCD, a condition we share. I’ve been meaning to buy this book since it was released a few months ago, and finally did this past week because Hendrix was selling some signed copies as a fundraiser for Palestinian relief.
Root-Bernstein, Michele, and Francine Banwarth. The Haiku Life: What We Learned as Editors of Frogpond. Champaign, IL: Modern Haiku Press, 2017.
A notice about this book’s recent reprinting is what brought it to my attention. I decided to buy it because the more I write haiku, the more I am interested in reading books about others’ haiku journeys rather than just reading haiku itself.
Daniel Shank Cruz 