Jim Kacian (United States) is a co-founder of the World Haiku Association, as well as owner of Red Moon Press and editor of, Frogpond, the international membership journal of the Haiku Society of America. He has published five books of haiku: Presents of Mind (Katsura Press, Portland, OR 1996 HSA Merit Book Award Winner); Chincoteague (Amelia Press, Bakersfield, CA 1997 Cicada Chapbook Contest First Prize Winner); Six Directions (La Alameda Press, Albuquerque NM 1998 HSA Merit Book Award Winner); In Concert (Saki Press, Normal, IL 1999 Tiny Poems Press Chapbook Contest Winner, Virgil Hutton Memorial Haiku Chapbook Contest Winner).

1. Finding Its Direction
   A retrospective of the best haiku published in the journal South by Southeast on the occasion of its 10^th Anniversary.
   
   
2. Beyond Kigo: Haiku in the Next Millennium
   A discussion of season-words in modern haiku, from a global perspective.
   
   
3. Around the World as Briefly as Possible
   The convergence of theme and state of being between trips taken around the world and across the country is the topic of this speech given at Haiku Pacific Rim in Los Angeles, November 2002.
   
   
4. New for 2004 Concerning Balkan Haiku
   A speech presented at the Global Haiku Festival
   Illinois, USA, April 15, 2000
   
   
5. Tapping the Common Well
   From the Foreword to "KNOTS: The Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry".
   
   
6. The World Haiku Conference, Tolmin
   A talk on the possibilities of international haiku, and at the same time, personal involvement, at the inaugural World Haiku Association Conference in Tolmin, Slovenia, October 2000.  
    
   

1. Global Haiku & the Work of Jim Kacian
   by Richard Gilbert  
    
   

night fishing
bailing the moon
out of the boat

© Jim Kacian 2004