Background
Kacian was born on July 26, 1953 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; the son of John Joseph Kacian and Jeanette Kurtyka Kacian.
Lewiston, Maine, United States
Bates College
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
University of Virginia
(The fifth volume of this award-winning series, subtitled ...)
The fifth volume of this award-winning series, subtitled "Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku." Many of the outstanding new poets of haiku received their first recognition in this biennial series, which has received the top award available to it in the haiku world for each volume.
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2007
(Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather,...)
Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather, it is the deep breath of life. - Santoka Taneda Atoms of Haiku is the delicious combination of Haiku from 19 Haijn all around the world. A Haijin tries to capture a present moment and write a haiku about it. Haiku connects Haijin to their surroundings. Atoms of Haiku is like a rejuvenation process for body, mind and soul. Author’s United has collected the best one hundred and fifty seven haiku for their readers in this book. This book will certainly enlighten you about the oldest form of poetry. Haiku gives your normal observations a second view and enable you to write through your eyes. No matter what your reason is for reading Atoms of Haiku, you will find this book – inspiring, enlightening and insightful. Enjoy the pictures drawn in words from the master painters all around the world. Truly the Haijin paint with the words as you will come to know after reading this book. “Real haiku is the soul of poetry. Anything that is not actually present in one's heart is not haiku. The moon glows, flowers bloom, insects cry, water flows. There is no place we cannot find flowers or think of the moon. This is the essence of haiku. Go beyond the restrictions of your era, forget about purpose or meaning, separate yourself from historical limitations—there you will find the essence of true art, religion, and science.” - Santoka Taneda
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2015
(The first anthology to map the full range of haiku in the...)
The first anthology to map the full range of haiku in the English tradition.Haiku in English is an anthology of more than 800 brilliantly chosen poems that were originally written in English by over 200 poets from around the world. Although haiku originated as a Japanese art form, it has found a welcome home in the English-speaking world. This collection tells the story for the first time of Anglophone haiku, charting its evolution over the last one hundred years and placing it within its historical and literary context. It features an engaging introduction by former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins and an insightful historical overview by leading haiku poet, editor, and publisher Jim Kacian. The selections range from the first fully realized haiku in English, Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro,” to plentiful examples by haiku virtuosos such as John Wills, Marlene Mountain, Nick Virgilio, and Raymond Roseliep, and to investigations into the genre by eminent poets like John Ashbery, Allen Ginsberg, and Seamus Heaney. The editors explore the genre’s changing forms and themes, highlighting its vitality and its breadth of poetic styles and content. Among the many poems on offer are organic form experiments by E. E. Cummings and Michael McClure, evocations of black culture by Richard Wright and Sonia Sanchez, and the seminal efforts of Jack Kerouac.
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2016
(The fifth volume of the annual collection of the best wri...)
The fifth volume of the annual collection of the best writing in the haiku world from around the world compiled into a single volume. Includes haiku, senryu, haibun, renku, articles and essays about the world's shortest form of poetry.
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2017
Kacian was born on July 26, 1953 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States; the son of John Joseph Kacian and Jeanette Kurtyka Kacian.
Kacian received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Religion from Bates College in 1974. Five years later he was given a Master of Fine Arts degree in Music Theory and Composition from the University of Virginia.
Kacian wrote his first poems in his teens and published them in small poetry magazines beginning in 1970. He wrote, recorded and sold songs while living in Nashville in the 1980s.
In 1993, Jim founded Red Moon Press and the same year he began editing the haiku journal "South by Southeast". Then in 1998, he became an editor of Frogpond Journal. Kacian, from August to November 2000, traveled to nine countries - United Kingdom, Slovenia, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Malaysia, New Zealand, Australia and Japan - promoting a global haiku.
In late 2008, Jim formed and created The Haiku Foundation. In August 2013 his anthology "Haiku in English: The First Hundred Years" was published by W. W. Norton & Company. Jim served as an editor-in-chief for the decade-long project, with Allan Burns and Philip Rowland as associate editors and with a general introduction by former poet laureate Billy Collins.
(The fifth volume of the annual collection of the best wri...)
2017(The fifth volume of this award-winning series, subtitled ...)
2007(Haiku is not a shriek, a howl, a sigh, or a yawn; rather,...)
2015(The first anthology to map the full range of haiku in the...)
2016Kacian is a member of Haiku Society of America.