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Author: Jane Reichhold

Jane Reichhold (1937-2016). Jane Reichhold was born as Janet Styer in 1937 in Lima, Ohio, USA. In her lifetime she published over forty books of her haiku, renga, tanka, and translations. As founder and editor of AHA Books, Jane also published Mirrors: International Haiku Forum, Geppo, for the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, and she co-edited with her husband Werner Reichhold, Lynx for Linking Poets from 1992 through 2013. Lynx went online in 2000 in AHApoetry.com , the website Jane started in 1995. From 2006 to 2016 she maintained an online forum ? the AHA Poetry forum. Jane was twice the winner of the Museum of Haiku Literature Award [Tokyo]. She was a three-time winner of a Haiku Society of America?s Merit Book Award: Tigers in Teacup, Silence, and A Dictionary of Haiku. She was the winner of numerous other haiku awards and was honored by the Emperor and Empress of Japan by invitation to attend the Imperial New Year?s Poetry Party as a guest at the Palace in Tokyo in 1998. Jane Reichhold was a gifted writer, translator and teacher of the art of haiku and other Japanese forms. The international haiku community is lessened by her passing.
time to burn the whole candle holidays
Posted on 25 December 201319 December 2013Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 13.37 Comments on
hailstones in the attic the patter of mice
Posted on 17 February 20141 February 2014Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 13.311 Comments on
  canyon stream dried to a slit of clear sky       (included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2013)
Posted on 6 November 201531 October 2015Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 15.210 Comments on
    visitors coming where to hide our bad habits       (Included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2013)
Posted on 25 December 201525 December 2015Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 15.29 Comments on
night of ghosts bumping in the bare branches the lost kite             (Included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books; 2nd Edition, 1993-2013)
Posted on 31 October 20168 October 2016Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 16.26 Comments on
sunlight glistens on a small blade of grass each poet passes along the fire in dew drops winking     (Included in A Gift of Tanka, AHA Books, 1990)
Posted on 24 November 20163 November 2016Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 16.24 Comments on
music how it gathers the lonely       (Included in A Dictionary of Haiku, AHA Books, 2nd ed., 1993-2013)
Posted on 22 December 201622 December 2016Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 16.210 Comments on
a broken tooth yet he sees the young girl naked before him smiling a wide smile as she was at twenty       (Included in A Gift of Tanka, AHA Books, 1990)
Posted on 30 May 201729 May 2017Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 17.13 Comments on
the felled oak bending to fit the earth         (Included in Tiger in a Teacup, AHA Books, 1998)
Posted on 8 June 20173 June 2017Author Jane ReichholdCategories Issue 17.16 Comments on
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