YTHS Books
Zigzag of the Dragonfly: Writing the Haiku Way by Patricia J. Machmiller
This book is about how to write haiku: it encourages writing daily and offers insight into the writing process. It also discusses in depth the elements of haiku craft: kigo, form, juxtaposition, image, and sound. It teaches a practice through which the reader can find a new way of seeing, a new way of appreciating, and a new way of being. Through learning to write haiku the reader comes to appreciate sparseness and grace and a cordial openness to the universe. In this book haiku is the teacher. This book is available for purchase at the YTHS Store.
Old Pond Clysta Seney, editor
Essays on the craft of haiku by Jerry Ball, Michael Dylan Welch, Patricia J. Machmiller, and others.
Other YTHS Publications
San Francisco Bay Regional Nature Guide and Saijiki, eds. A. Homan, P. Gallagher, P.J. Machmiller
This publication is the culmination of the YTHS Saijiki Project. This book is available for purchase at the YTHS Store.
Kiyoko’s Sky: The Haiku of Kiyoko Tokutomi, trans. Patricia J. Machmiller and Fay Aoyagi
This book is available for purchase at the YTHS Store.
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This book is available for purchase at the YTHS Store.
Autumn Loneliness: The Letters of Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi, July-December, 1967, trans, Tei Matsushita Scott and Patricia J. Machmiller
This book is available for purchase at the YTHS Store.
YTHS Member Annual Anthologies
Except for the Anthologies that say OOP (Out Of Print), they are available for purchase at the YTHS Store.
1977—Kiyoshi Tokutomi, Haiku Journal, Vol. 1 (OOP)
1978—Kiyoshi Tokutomi, Haiku Journal, Vol. 2 (OOP)
1979—Kiyoshi Tokutomi, Haiku Journal, Vol. 3
1980—Kiyoshi Tokutomi, Haiku Journal, Vol. 4
1981/2—Kiyoshi Tokutomi, Haiku Journal, Vol. 5
1983—Jerry Ball, Haiku Journal Members’ Anthology
1983/6—Kiyoshi Tokutomi, Haiku Journal, Ten Year Anniversary Issue, Vol. 6
1984—Jerry Ball, Haiku Journal Members’ Anthology
1989— Jerry Ball, Haiku Journal Members’ Anthology
1990/1—Jane Reichhold, Haiku Journal Members’ Anthology
1994—Ebba Story, Into the Wind
1995—Patricia J. Machmiller, A Shadowed Path
1996—Alice Benedict, Still Life with Stars
1997— June Hopper Hymas, The Mocking Bird Sings
1998— June Hopper Hymas, Heavenly Bamboo
2000— Patricia J. Machmiller and June Hopper Hymas, Young Leaves: An Old Way of Seeing New: Writings on Haiku in English (YTHS 25th Anniversary Issue)
2001— June Hopper Hymas, Spring Sky
2002—Anne M. Homan and Donnalynn Chase, The Heron Leans Forward
2003—Anne M. Homan and Donnalynn Chase, Migrating Mist
2004—Anne M. Homan and Patricia J. Machmiller, Dreams of Slow Mice
2005—Anne M. Homan and Patricia J. Machmiller, Growing a Green Heart
2006—Donnalynn Chase and June Hopper Hymas, Flying White
2007—Donnalynn Chase, June Hopper Hymas, and Susanne Smith, Fog and Brittle Pine
2008—Paul O. Williams, Muse of the Bird-song Tree
2009—June Hopper Hymas, Extinguished Candles
2010—Jerry Ball and June Hopper Hymas, Autumn Deepens: Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Thirty-Fifth Commemorative Members’ Anthology 1975–2010
2011—Jerry Ball and J. Zimmerman, Wild Violets
2012—Patricia J. Machmiller, Bending Reeds
2013—Patrick Gallagher, Above the Clouds
2014—June Hopper Hymas, Scattered Acorns
2015—Patricia J. Machmiller, The Plover and the Moonstone: The Yuki Teikei Society 40th Anniversary Anthology
2016—Mimi Ahern, Cherry Blossom Light
2017—Phillip Kennedy and Amy Ostenso- Kennedy, Hanami Dango
2018—Amy Ostenso-Kennedy and Phillip Kennedy, Nesting Dolls
2019—Amy Ostenso-Kennedy, Lost Pinwheel
2020—Charles Trumbull, All This Talk
Books by Others
Haiku: A Poet’s Guide Lee Gurga
YTHS member Joan Zimmerman has written a thoughtful description and review of this book. You can find her article here.
The Essential Haiku, Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa Robert Hass
This book is still in print and available from many booksellers. A brief review of it can be found here.
Haiku World, an International Poetry Almanac William J. Higginson with Penny Harter
A classic compendium that is occasionally available from specialty bookstores.
The Haiku Handbook, How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku William J. Higginson
This is the first book to give the reader everything needed to begin writing or teaching haiku. A summary and many readers’ reviews can be found here.
The Haiku Seasons, Poetry of the Natural World William J. Higginson
While this book can occasionally be found in specialty bookstores, you can see a brief summary of it here, which recommends getting it from your library.
Touch of Light Jeannie Martin and Vincent Tripi
A short but good review of this book can be found in Frogpond.