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Wishbones Wins a National Award
We are thrilled to announce that Wishbones, haiku & senryu by Ben Moeller-Gaa with calligraphy by JS Graustein, has won The Haiku Foundation’s Touchstone Distinguished Book Award 2018. We would like to thank The Haiku Foundation for all they do to support English-language Japanese-form… Continue Reading “Wishbones Wins a National Award”
evening tea…
accessible version for screen readers: evening tea the slow steeping of stars ©2019 by Ben Moeller-Gaa in celebration of International Haiku Poetry Day Ben Moeller-Gaa is a Pushcart nominated haiku poet whose poems, reviews and essays have appeared in over 30 journals worldwide. He… Continue Reading “evening tea…”
Wishbones
haiku and senryu by Ben Moeller-Gaa calligraphy by JS Graustein 142 pages, 5×7 paperback ISBN 978-1-61019-243-9 Sustainable Edition: print $16 limited to 100 copies, numbered silver-white endsheets available to pre-order at the bottom of this page launches 15 November 2018 ISBN 978-1-61019-116-6 Global Edition:… Continue Reading “Wishbones”
Our 2018 Fall List
Folded Word is thrilled to announce our forthcoming titles from amazing poets this fall: FRAGMENTS: From the Lost Book of the Bird Spirit – poems by Karla Van Vliet, September 2018, ISBN 978-1-61019-242-2. Set to the music of bird flight, sight, and song, these… Continue Reading “Our 2018 Fall List”
from the stump…
from the stump of the old cherry tree another cherry tree ©2018 Ben Moeller-Gaa ~Previously appeared in Acorn: 32. Ben Moeller-Gaa is a Pushcart nominated haiku poet whose poems, reviews and essays have appeared in over 30 journals worldwide. He is the author of… Continue Reading “from the stump…”
FoldedForthcoming: WISHBONES by Ben Moeller-Gaa
Our lovely Sarah talked me into opening up an Instagram account so you all could see our titles in various stages of production. When I posted the following photo of blocking one piece from a new haiku/senryu collection, Ben did something brilliant: He responded… Continue Reading “FoldedForthcoming: WISHBONES by Ben Moeller-Gaa”
Month in Review: April 2015
by Maryka Gillis Folded Word has been busy this month. During the course of the April, the press has focused extensively on chapbooks, with a call for new submissions, attendance at a chapbook festival, and the debut of three new chapbooks of poetry. In… Continue Reading “Month in Review: April 2015”
Folded Word-Lab: haiku results
Two weeks ago, Ben Moeller-Gaa presented a haiku workshop here and challenged you to write your own haiku. And write you have: we received haiku entries from four continents! Below are the haiku that Ben selected as being the best examples of the concept… Continue Reading “Folded Word-Lab: haiku results”
Folded Word-Lab: Haiku
by Ben Moeller-Gaa author of WASP SHADOWS (Folded Word 2014) What is a Haiku? Haiku is a short form poem that began in Japan several hundred years ago. It is widely written around the world today, and is perfect for our hard wired, fast… Continue Reading “Folded Word-Lab: Haiku”
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