Update

By now I have put most of my geographical haiku, from around the US, into my book e pluribus haiku anthology - 3487 haiku, which believe it or not has 3487 haiku. Many if not most of them are on this site as well, in an enlightened form no less, so welcome to the page and scroll down and experience it.

You will notice, however, that as a garden, it needs weeding; I concentrated on putting them in a book, and that took all my energy. I will say, however, that linking a kigo (season clue) to a season picture, and a geographical clue to a state map, was, I felt, an ingenious innovation. I'm proud of making link haiku that has a pattern, that uses links as part of poetry, that is in a sense several pages in depth. The collection (accessed by clickig the state names in the templates) is messy, in some cases has format errors, and worst of all, links to outside pictures instead of my own. Probably half of the visitors I have on this site is people wondering who the heck is linking to their spring cherry photo repeatedly. Me! I have my own, but for a while there I linked to whatever I could find.

Haiku, I've noticed, is not on the upswing. On the contrary, people are rejecting it as it has to have a period of being out of style before it. can come back and be all the rage. OK, I accept that, and never really wrote my poetry to make money anyway, but I accept this time, whether it is a year, five years or twenty years, as time to regroup and reorganize.

That's why I'm embarking on cleaning up the old poetry on this page. The bad formatting, outside pictures, etc.? I'll do something about it. One state at a time. It'll take a while but one has to start somewhere.

It's time to admit that the e pluribus haiku: a novel project didn't really get wings. One has to fit a full-fledged novel into the format of e pluribus (alabama-alaska-arkansas etc.) or else find another way. Not that it can't be done. Let's say it's moved as far back on the shelf as it takes before you start not seeing it.

Perhaps going over, curating the original haiku will inspire me. If nothing else, it will make this page cleaner, inside and out.

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In a bit of a marketing coup, I got e pluribus haiku anthology to be rated #8 for Japanese Poetry & Haiku (https://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/digital-text/7588868011), but you have to look fast, these things will change maybe two or three times a day. This is haiku, and it's digital; my paperback ratings will take a while before they do that well. But if you follow the links, you will see my pride and joy, a book of 3487 haiku.

One gets a marketing coup briefly by getting several people to download it and read it at the same time. Ordinarily I do it one at a time, and then I get a pretty good rating that disappears quickly. If several are downloading it close to each other, you get a slightly better rating that disappears a little less quickly. By the time you're reading this, it's probably still a pretty good rating, at least for me. I've never had #1, though it got #1 in Britain once.

The secret to getting people to read your haiku is, get to know them and if they like you, and you put it in front of them, they won't say no even if haiku is not their favorite thing. I say this because for most people, haiku is not their favorite thing. I could have this book right out in the open for a while, and lots of people would see it, and not download it. But it's really an amazing book and I'm proud of it.

Look down into this site for some samples from the early days of writing haiku that has season clues, and geographical clues. All linked. And in some kind of order, though many of the links are dead here and will probably not be upgraded. Look at it as a kind of e pluribus haiku online museum.

Thank you!

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Unusual success

What you see here is the new cover, new branding, for e pluribus haiku anthology. It has 3487 haiku, true story, just about every haiku that was written for all the previous versions, eph 2012, eph 2013, eph 2014, eph 2015, eph 2016, eph 2017 & eph 2018. The last three of those are still for sale (see below) but may be retired soon since the entire collection is included in the anthology, and since there is no particular significance to the years except their being the years I wrote them; those years are rapidly fading into the past and aren't served particularly by the haiku since the haiku don't reflect on the years themselves.

OK, on to the success. I finally got the nerve to throw this book out on the table in my general indie-author-share community, for various reasons, one being that in the heart of winter I wanted to read longer things and this is my only truly long work. I'd been a little shy about calling myself a poet, etc. Long story short - they like it, they're reading it, and even the British among them are enjoying it. It has a review now, maybe more. It's in the top ten among British haiku. It's enjoying success in the USA as well.

All of this is on kindle, the kindle version. I don't sell a whole lot of paperbacks, but I've decided not to worry about it. Paperback success will come when it comes. For the moment, just to have people read it is a miracle.

Check it out. 3487 of them. Many started out on this site (you can find them if you look). Here though we celebrate the fact that they can link. They can just be haiku, too.