October sun
the sky the color
of forever
— Annette Makino, published in Haiku 21.2: An Anthology of Contemporary English-Language Haiku, Eds. Lee Gurga and Scott Metz, Modern Haiku Press, 2025; haiga previously published in Water and Stone: Ten Years of Art and Haiku, Annette Makino, Makino Studios, 2021; an earlier version of this haiku was published in Frogpond, 2016.
From the Modern Haiku website:
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Haiku 21.2: an anthology of contemporary English-language haiku.
Edited by Lee Gurga and Scott Metz
With an introduction by the editors
Modern Haiku Press, 2025
Over 800 haiku by more than 400 poets.
In 2011 Modern Haiku Press published an anthology of haiku and haiku-related verse (ku) titled Haiku 21. The poems in that anthology were all published between 2000 to 2010. Part of the editors’ intention in producing Haiku 21 was to encourage poets to expand the range of what they were willing to do creatively and still call their poems “haiku.”
Haiku 21.2 extends the project begun with Haiku 21 by presenting haiku and related poems from the second decade of the century.
Perfectbound, 282 pages. $25 from Modern Haiku Press.