This is the 13th volume in The New Resonance series, begun in 1999 to showcase emerging voices in English-language haiku. Annette Makino is one of the 17 poets featured in this edition, which includes photos and an introduction to each poet along with a sampling of their work, compiled by editors Jim Kacian and Julie Schwerin.

According to the publisher, Red Moon Press, “The New Resonance haiku community now consists of 221 members with the addition of the New Resonance 13 group. These poets continue to appear in the major haiku journals and elsewhere, and their books have been accorded the honor of serious and adulatory review and critique. Many are recognized among the leaders of literary haiku in their respective countries and around the world. These seventeen new members to this rather exclusive confederacy, then, have a very high standard against which to measure themselves, but equally high expectations of their ultimate position in the haiku community. This is the thirteenth volume in a much-awarded series.”

The featured poets are Agnes Eva Savich, Annette Makino, Cyndi Lloyd, Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Frank Hooven, Jennifer Hambrick, Jim Laurila, John Rowlands, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Kat Lehmann, Lorraine A Padden, Marianne Paul, Mimi Ahern, our thomas, Pippa Phillips, red moon press, Robert Witmer, and Tom Bierovic