Akers, Torey. Revolutionary Algorithms: A TikTok Manifesto. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2025.
Torey was one of my MFA classmates, and her first book just came out!
Brandi, John. The Rain Sweeps Through: A Flurry of Haiku. Chimacum, WA: Empty Bowl Press, 2023.
I recently read a review of this collection and it sounded interesting, so I decided to buy it.
Hawkins, Amanda. When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones. Eastsound, WA: Wandering Aengus Press, 2025.
Amanda chaired the AWP panel I was on last year. Their new poetry collection was just released.
Rotella, Alexis, ed. Unsealing Our Secrets: A Short Poem Anthology About Sexual Abuse. Rev. Ed. Arnold, MD: Jade Mountain Press, 2019.
I’ve loved Rotella’s poetry since I first came across it when I began investigating haiku. I was recently reading an article by her about her career that mentioned this anthology, so I decided to buy it.
Two friends recently sent me a care package that included the following books of haiku:
Gage, Joshua, ed. The Ohio Haiku Anthology. Cleveland: Cuttlefish Books, 2020.
Kacian, Jim, and Julie Schwerin, eds. A New Resonance 12: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku. Winchester, VA: Red Moon Press, 2021.
Prejean, Orrin. Dewdrop World. Cleveland: Cuttlefish Books, 2021.
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