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Napping River, Yakushima Island, 2007

Napping River
Yakushima Island, Japan

Jim Kacian now has a wiki page with a complete listing of his professional activities. He is the founder of The Haiku Foundation, as well as owner of Red Moon Press and past editor of Frogpond, the international membership journal of the Haiku Society of America. He has published fourteen books of poetry. Some of his books of haiku include: 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), and more recently, Border Lands (Red Moon Press, 2005) and Long After (Albalibri Editore, Rosignano Marittimo: Italy, (trilingual), 2008. ISBN 978-8889618585).

 
 
Essays
  1. Finding Its Direction
    A retrospective of the best haiku published in the journal South by Southeast on the occasion of its 10th 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. "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.  
     
Articles concerning
  1. Global Haiku & the Work of Jim Kacian
    by Richard Gilbert  
     
 
 
Haiku


clouds seen
through clouds
seen through

spring rain
                       if i lie
        quite still



my fingerprints
on the dragonfly
in amber


walking in
the orchard      suddenly
                        its  plan

whittling
till there’s nothing left
of the light



icicles
the shape
of gravity


passing the jug
the warmth
of many hands

swallowflight . . .
looking out the window
long after



the river
the river makes
of the moon


for my birthday
another trip
around the sun

ground fog
up to my ankles
in moonlight



just now
as my life turns crazy
forsythia


night fishing
bailing the moon
out of the boat

dusklight –
I read her poem
differently
 
the place i can't reach itches your absence                                 
     whiskey i sip it till it loves me

camping alone one star then many              


© Jim Kacian 2009


Jim Kacian & Dimitar Anakiev, Yakushima Island, September, 2007
(Photo, Richard Gilbert)