Review in Modern Haiku

Glimmering Hour: Haiku Northwest 35th Anniversary Anthology, eds. Connie Hutchison, C.R. Manley, Susan Roberts, R. J. Swanson, and Michael Dylan Welch (Bellevue, Wash.: Haiku Northwest Press, 2024). 153 pages; 6"x9". Matte four-color card covers; perfectbound. ISBN 978-1-953092-07-6. Price: $20.00 from online booksellers.

reviewed by Paul Miller

The current anthology celebrates the organization’s activities from 2014 (the date of their 25th anniversary anthology) to 2024. The majority of the volume contains haiku by members past and present (seventy-nine of them), most poets presenting several poems, as well as a nice memorial piece on founder Francine Porad by Connie Hutchison. Some favorite poems:

spitting

watermelon seeds at my shadow

summer afternoon

David Berger

house by the ocean

for a moment

I live there

Munira Judith Avinger

cut chrysanthemums—

a lifetime of cigarettes

in the priest’s voice

R. J. Swanson

bird feeder empty of seed

even the jays

look for Bernard

Francine Porad