I’m pleased to introduce you to Randall Herman, our NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter for August 2017. His interview is now live on the “Meet the Prompters” page. Randall says he writes haiku “to keep myself in touch with the tangible world and its wonders.” Read more, including three sample poems, in his succinct interview.

Time to meet our NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter for June 2017. It’s Marietta McGregor, from Canberra, Australia. Read her informative interview, just posted to the “Meet the Prompters” page, replete with details on her journey to haiku, including many influences, her science writing background (do you know what palynology is?), and three exemplary poems. Thank you, Marietta.

For May of 2017, our NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter is Andrea Piscitelli Narciso. You can learn more about Andrea at her “Meet the Prompter” interview. Find out how this native New Yorker first discovered haiku, and learn about her line of notecards, her reiki certification, and more. You can also read three of Andrea’s haiku, inspired by NaHaiWriMo prompts.

Our NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter for March 2017 is Aubrie Cox. Learn more about Aubrie at her “Meet the Prompter” interview. Read three of her favourite haiku and see what she’s been up to recently, besides daily prompting (hint: it involves the initials MFA). Thank you, Aubrie, for your challenging poetic inspiration this month!

A new resource just added to this site is a page of NaHaiWriMo Badges. There you can find three badges that you are free to download to your website. Link them up to this website or our hyperactive Facebook page and they’ll be good to go. Spread the word! And the word is . . . NaHaiWriMo!

Sometime on 1 February 2017, the NaHaiWriMo Facebook page received its 2,500th like. Welcome to everyone trying NaHaiWriMo for the first time. Whether you participate on Facebook or not (you can find February daily writing prompts and share your poems there), it’s great that you’re writing haiku every day this month. And hopefully you’ll continue in the months beyond!

National Haiku Writing Month is now underway for the seventh straight year. Write at least one haiku per day for the entire month of February—the shortest month for the shortest genre of poetry. Is that easy or hard? Give it a try and find out. Or do it again if you’ve done it before. You can post your poems to our Facebook page, and look for daily writing prompts on our February prompts page (the poems you write don’t have to follow the prompts, though). Or tweet your haiku to #nahaiwrimo. Take the NaHaiWriMo challenge and start today (it’s okay to catch up if you start late). Write on!

A 30-minute radio interview with NaHaiWriMo founder Michael Dylan Welch was broadcast on 13 January 2017 on Tom Maxedon’s “Word” literary radio hour on NPR affiliate 89.3 KPRG-FM, Public Radio Guam. Have a listen on SoundCloud.

Our NaHaiWriMo daily writing prompter for November 2016 is Anne Burgevin. Just posted to the Meet the Prompters page is her interview, in which she talks about her surprise return to haiku, the handmade books she puts together for her NaHaiWriMo poems each year, and various commitments and interests such as homeschooling her children, gardening, sustainability, and etegami art. Three examples of her haiku included too!

For the month of October 2016, our daily writing prompter is Judith Gorgone. She’s providing autumn prompts, and trusts that those in the southern hemisphere can still be inspired. I invite you to read Judith’s “Meet the Prompter” interview to learn about her discovery of haiku, her extensive graphic design experience (including haiku T-shirts), and how NaHaiWriMo is an online home for her. You can also see three sample haiku, one of which is also presented as a haiga. Gratitude to you, Judith!