The Unswept Path: Contemporary American Haiku Book

This is such a great little anthology. Some of the anthologized haikuists open with introductory essays before sharing their work, while others just let the poems speak for themselves. It's interesting to see the different paths the poets took to find their way into this form.

Some of my favorites:

about to kill an ant
but no it's carrying
a corpse

--John Brandi

maple leaves
barely moving
in the earthquake

--Patricia Donegan

New Year's Eve--
I feed my birthday cards
to the fire

--Penny Harter


first light
everything in this room
was already here

--Christopher Herold