14 January 2026 - in memory of Bruce Ross
Kristen Lindquist
The haiku community lost Bruce Ross this week. He was a past president of the Haiku Society of America, founding editor of Autumn Moon Haiku Journal, and author/editor of Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun; Writing Haiku; A Vast Sky: An Anthology of Contemporary World Haiku; Haiku Moment: An Anthology of Contemporary North American Haiku, and several haiku collections. Here are some of his haiku:
still winter field
the repeated bark of
a solitary crow
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icy dawn . . .
the sparkling window frost
in the unused room
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Thoreau’s gravesite:
the smell of woodsmoke
on the cold spring air
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silence
the snow-covered rock
under winter stars