Books

The following publications by Michael Dylan Welch, mostly poetry, are listed in chronological order, with the most recent first. This list does not include 70+ trifolds or broadsides I’ve also published, nor any of the 200+ trade books I’ve edited as a professional editor. It also does not include haiku and tanka books by other authors that I’ve edited and published with my press, Press Here, or the many publications I’ve designed or produced for Two Autumns Press or Haiku Northwest Press (unless I was an editor or had another prominent role). See my Amazon Author Page, and the listing of my publications on WorldCat. See also Blurbs and Woodnotes.

See Sortable Book List.

Earthworks: 2023 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Julie Schwerin. Photography by John E. Hancock. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, June 2023. Haiku and senryu by 129 attendees of the seventeenth biennial haiku conference, held in Cincinnati, Ohio. Read the introduction, selected poems, and contributor list. See the Press Here book page. Available on Amazon.

Ocular Oracle

Ebook collection of “hydrogen jukebox” poems published by No Bones, December 2021 (book four of a trilogy). Read the introduction, My Word, where you can also view the free PDF.

hydrogen jukebox

you have my word

a whole bouquet

Dance into the World

Editor. Twentieth anniversary anthology of the Tanka Society of America, December 2020. Features tanka by 175 members, divided into seven themed sections. Read the introduction, “Our Tanka Dance.” See Dave Read’s Haiku Canada review. Available on Amazon.

for the janitor

having to lower

the flag again

to half mast

thoughts and prayers       +

Seabeck Reunion

Editor. Tenth anniversary anthology of the Seabeck Haiku Getaway, November 2020. Foreword by John Stevenson. Extensive essay detailing the history of the first ten retreats, which I’ve directed since 2008. Read the introduction, “Joining the Reunion,” and the afterword, “Ten Years of Seabeck Haiku Getaways.” See Kristen Lindquist’s Frogpond review. See Maxianne Berger’s Haiku Canada review. See Maeve O’Sullivan’s Blithe Spirit review. Available on Amazon.

Vitreous Humor

Ebook collection of “hydrogen jukebox” poems published by Bones, October 2020 (book three of four). Read the introduction, “Who Knows, where you can also view the free PDF. The PDF is also available on the Bones website. See Maxianne Berger’s Haiku Canada review.

hydrogen jukebox

for all the words

in China

Retina Splash

Ebook collection of “hydrogen jukebox” poems published by Bones, July 2020 (book two of four). Read the introduction, “Wherever You Will, where you can also view the free PDF. The PDF is also available on the Bones website. See Maxianne Berger’s Haiku Canada review.

hydrogen jukebox

the end of the world

again

Eyeball Kick

Ebook collection of “hydrogen jukebox” poems published by Bones, June 2020 (book one of four).  Read the introduction, “Wherever They Will, where you can also view the free PDF. The PDF is also available on the Bones website. See Maxianne Berger’s Haiku Canada review.

hydrogen jukebox

it’s the end of the word

as we know it

Star Wheel

Microchapbook collection of haiku inspired by the names of crochet patterns, published by Origami Poems Project, 2020, where you can download the free PDF.

long-weekend getaway—

the star-wheel embroidery

still unfinished

Sitting in the Sun: 2019 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Crystal Simone Smith. Artwork by Kate MacQueen. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, August 2019. Haiku and senryu by 94 attendees of the sixteenth biennial haiku conference, held in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Read the introduction, selected poems, and contributor list. See the Press Here book page. Available on Amazon.

Jumble Box: Haiku and Senryu from National Haiku Writing Month

Editor. Artwork by Ron C. Moss. Presents 324 poems by 100 NaHaiWriMo contributors. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, September 2017. Read the introduction and afterword, and see the list of contributors and haiga selections. See the Press Here book page. Available on Amazon.       +

jumble box

all my unfinished

haiku

Greg Longenecker

Earthsigns: 2017 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Scott Wiggerman. Artwork by Lidia Rozmus. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, September 2017. Haiku and senryu by 183 attendees of the fifteenth biennial haiku conference, held in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Read the introduction, selected poems, and the contributor list. See the Press Here book page. Available on Amazon.

A Collection of Rare Songs by Itchu

Cotranslation with Emiko Miyashita of Edo-era Itchubushi songs for shamisen and voice. Book and compact disc, plus iPad performance notes for concert augmentation. Tokyo, Japan: Miyako Itchu Institute of Music and Culture, 2016.       +       +       +

Seven Suns / Seven Moons

With Tanya McDonald. Seattle, Washington: NeoPoiesis Press, September 2016. Read the book’s afterword. Read a League of Canadian Poets review. See a September 2017 video of a reading from the book at the Haiku North America conference. Order from NeoPoiesis Press or on Amazon.       +       +       +

The Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival Haiku Invitational Winners 2015

Judge, with Allan Burns and Katherine J. Munro. Lantzville, British Columbia: Leaf Press, 2016. See commentary on the winning poems on the VCBF website.

Off the Beaten Track: A Year in Haiku

One of twelve contributors. London: Boatwhistle Books, 2016. Order from Boatwhistle Books or on Amazon. Read all my poems, see my interview about this book, and see this review and this review.

Fire in the Treetops: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Haiku North America

Editor. Artwork by Christopher Patchel. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2015. Contains 1,053 haiku and senryu from twenty-five years of HNA conference anthologies, with my extensive introduction, plus short essays by thirteen contributors highlighting poems selected from each prior anthology. See the Press Here book page. Read the introduction, contents, list of contributors, and sample 2015 poems. Available on Amazon. See review by Vicki McCullough.

Becoming a Haiku Poet

Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2015. Foreword by Aubrie Cox. A brief primer on the art of haiku. See the Press Here book page. Available on Amazon. See review by Paul Griffiths. See review by kjmunro.

A Warm Welcome

Editor with Angela Terry. Artwork by Annette Makino. Bellevue, Washington: Haiku Northwest / Vandina Press, 2015. Anthology of poems from the 2013 Seabeck Haiku Getaway. Read the introduction. Available on Amazon.

True Colour

Redmond, Washington: City of Redmond, 2014. Book design and photography by Dan D Shafer. Collection of thirteen solo rengay, each one on the theme of a different colour. This art book opens up like a painter’s swatch, based on a design I proposed. Read about the book. Read the introduction and afterword. To purchase, please contact WelchM@aol.com.

Haiku Greeting Cards

Redmond, Washington: Historic Core Redmond / Minuteman Press, 2014. Set of six “weathergram” greeting cards with my haiku and artwork by Jacqueline Calladine. See greeting card gallery. See also “Moonshine Series” and “Twelve Weathergrams.”

scattered petals . . .

the thud of my books

in the book drop

No Longer Strangers: Haiku Northwest 25th Anniversary Anthology

Layout, design, art direction, copyediting, production, and research. Bellevue, Washington: Haiku Northwest / Vandina Press, 2014. Anthology of haiku, senryu, and haibun featuring 78 contributors from Washington, Oregon, Alaska, and British Columbia. Available on Amazon. Second place winner of a 2015 Merit Book Award (for books published in 2014), from the Haiku Society of America.

Here, There, and Everywhere:

Redmond Association of Spokenword Poetry Anthology

Editor. Redmond, Washington: RASP, 2013. Featuring 120 poems by 70 poets, including a who’s who of Seattle-area poets. Read the introduction. Available on Amazon.       +

Close to the Wind: 2013 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with William Hart. Artwork by Naia. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2013. Nearly 100 haiku and senryu from this twelfth biennial haiku conference. Read the introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page. Available on Amazon.

With Cherries on Top: 31 Flavors from NaHaiWriMo

Editor. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2012. A wide-ranging collection of 190 haiku and senryu by 79 contributors to the August 2012 National Haiku Writing Month page on Facebook. Includes fireworks photographs by editor Michael Dylan Welch. See the Press Here book page. Free PDF download available on the NaHaiWriMo website.

Furoshiki

Cotranslation with Emiko Miyashita of poems and prose about elegant Japanese gift-wrapping cloths known as furoshiki. Tokyo: PIE Books, 2011. Available on Amazon (Japanese cover shown here).

Bound by the Beauty

Design and production of 2011 Seabeck Haiku Getaway holograph anthology. Bellevue, Washington: Haiku Northwest, 2011.       +

From Leaf to Leaf

Editor with Tanya McDonald. Hand-sewn haiku anthology with original suminigashi cover art celebrating the 2010 Seabeck Haiku Getaway. Bellevue, Washington: Haiku Northwest, 2011.

Standing Still: 2011 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Ruth Yarrow. Artwork by Dejah Léger. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2011. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

Tidepools: Haiku On Gabriola

Editor. Gabriola, British Columbia: Pacific-Rim Publishers, 2011. Commemorating ten years of haiku retreats on Gabriola Island, with haiku, senryu, haibun, rengay, renku, and more, by 42 contributors. Read my introduction. See also the contents and list of contributors. Available from Pacific-Rim Publishers (scroll down).

Between the Chimes

By Charles Trumbull. Michael Dylan Welch, editor. Pointe Claire, Quebec: King’s Road Press, 2011.

Bonsai

Cotranslation with Emiko Miyashita of twelve Bashō poems that introduce each seasonal section of bonsai photographs. Tokyo: PIE Books, 2011. Available on Amazon. See the twelve translations at “A Year of Bashō.”


春もややけしきととのふ月と梅

haru mo yaya keshiki totonou tsuki to ume

 

gradually spring—

the land just so

with moon and plum

Fifty-Seven Damn Good Haiku by a Bunch of Our Friends

Editor, with Alan Summers; anthology featuring twelve poets. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2010. Read the book’s short introduction. See the Press Here book page. Available from Press Here.

Lighting a Candle

Editor; anthology featuring Roberta Beary, Deborah P Kolodji, Victor Ortiz, and Ebba Story for the 21st annual Two Autumns reading series sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern California, held on 22 August 2010 in San Francisco. San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 2010. Read the book’s introduction. See also the “In Concert” trifold, featuring rengay by each of the book’s contributors, which I commissioned for this reading.

Noh

Cotranslation with Emiko Miyashita and David Cobb of Noh play summaries and associated poems. Tokyo: PIE Books, 2010. Available on Amazon (Japanese cover shown here). Read more about this book, including a selected Noh play summary, “Motomezuka,” and an associated poem.       +       +

Seeing Stars

Editor. Hand-sewn anthology from the 2009 Seabeck Haiku Getaway. Bellevue, Washington: Haiku Northwest, 2009. Winner of the 2010 Merit Book Award for best anthology (for books published in 2009), from the Haiku Society of America.       +

My Neighbor

Paul Miller, editor. Anthology featuring Garry Gay, David Grayson, Carolyn Hall, and Michael Dylan Welch for the 20th annual Two Autumns reading series sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern California, held on 13 September 2009 in San Francisco. San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 2009. See the introduction and all my poems.

Nothing Left to Say

By Roberta Beary. Michael Dylan Welch, editor. Pointe Claire, Quebec: King’s Road Press, 2009. See review by Don Wentworth.

Into Our Words: 2009 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Grant D. Savage. Artwork by Peter Vernon Quenter. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2009. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

For a Moment

Pointe Claire, Quebec: King’s Road Press, 2009. See selected poems. See PDF version on the Haiku Foundation website.

100 Poets: Passions of the Imperial Court

Cotranslation with Emiko Miyashita of the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu. Tokyo, Japan: PIE Books, 2008. Read more about this book, including all 100 translations and associated karuta (card game) images. See also selected translations. Available on Amazon. Also available, with photographs, poems, card game, and each poem read aloud in Japanese by male and female voices, as an iPad and iPhone application on iTunes. See the Japan Times review by David Burleigh (see also here). One of our translations from this book was printed on the back of 150,000,000 U.S. postage stamps in 2012.       +       +

Dandelion Wind: 2007 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor. Artwork by Kate MacQueen. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2008. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

Holiday Haiku

Gift booklet, with lines of my winter haiku inside a Christmas ornament, sold as a fundraiser for the Burning Word festival. No publisher, 2007. See the poems.

Shiki Haikusphere: Tenth Anniversary Anthology

One of ten poets featured, with Japanese translations, selected as top contributors to the Shiki online haiku discussion list hosted by Matsuyama University. Matsuyama, Japan: The Shiki Team, 2007. See the poems. See a PDF of a report about the Shiki discussion list from Haiku North America 2005.

Haiku Journey

Haiku editor for computer game. Midlothian, Texas: NStorm / Hot Lava Games (now MumboJumbo), 2006. See game overview, with additional links and reviews, a list of contributors, and my poems. See demo video or visit the Haiku Journey game forum.

Tracing the Fern: 2005 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Billie Wilson. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2005. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

Gingerly

Haiku and other short poems, edited by LeRoy Gorman. Napanee, Ontario: pawEpress (pawEprint #64), 2003.

Brocade of Leaves: 2003 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Yu Chang. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2003. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

Castles in the Sand

Editor, 2002 Tanka Society of America members’ anthology. Sammamish, Washington: Press Here, 2003. Read the book’s introduction. See the Press Here book page.

The Nick of Time: Essays on Haiku Aesthetics

By Paul O. Williams. Michael Dylan Welch, coeditor with Lee Gurga. Foster City, California: Press Here, 2001. Read the book’s introduction. See the Press Here book page. Winner of a Merit Book Award from the Haiku Society of America.

Paperclips: 2001 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Larry Kimmel and Carol Purington. Artwork by Karen Klein. Foster City, California: Press Here, 2001. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

On Snails, Sage and AIDS:

An Anthology Commemorating the 2001 Haiku North America Conference

Editor with Claire Gallagher of a small handout collection of haiku and senryu by California poets for the 2001 Haiku North America conference regional reading in Boston, Massachusetts, published by the Haiku Poets of Northern California.

Open Window

Haiku collection, with my photographs. Decatur, Illinois: Brooks Books, 2000. View online.

The Haijin’s Tweed Coat

Haiku sequence. Second, expanded edition (first edition published in 1990). Foster City: Press Here, 2000. Read the poems. See the Press Here book page. See a digital version of the book on the Haiku Foundation website.

               temple bell

     the haijin’s tweed coat

sprinkled with pine needles

Berries and Cream: Contemporary Haiga in North America

Interview with Jeanne Emrich on haiga, conducted by Michael Dylan Welch. Foster City, California: Press Here, 2000. See the Press Here book page.

Countdown

Editor, 2000 Haiku Poets of Northern California members’ haiku anthology on the theme of the millennium and the New Year. San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 2000. Read the book’s introduction.

fireworks at midnight—

a piece of Y2K confetti

lands on the sundial

Michael Dylan Welch



Haiku North America conference anthologies from the first eight conferences, 1991 to 2005.

Too Busy for Spring: 1999 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Lee Gurga. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1999. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

Through the Spirea: The Herb Barrett Award 1998

Judge, editor. Hamilton, Ontario: Hamilton Haiku Press, 1999. Available on Amazon. See a PDF version on the Haiku Foundation website. For the awards celebrated in this book I gave first prize to the following poem by Timothy Russell:

          cold morning—

     the sparrow's twitch

ripples through the spirea

I awarded second and third prizes to A. C. Missias and Ferris Gilli, and honourable mentions to Izak Bouwer and Sandra Fuhringer. At the end of he book, information about me written by the publisher said “Mr. Welch brings to haiku an awareness of the transcendent or spiritual world that lies behind, and informs, our surface reality. His own poetry has been widely published and collected, and he is generally considered a leading authority on English-language haiku.

Wedge of Light

Editor with Cor van den Heuvel and Tom Lynch of haibun anthology. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1999. Winner of an 2000 Merit Book Award (for books published in 1999) from the Haiku Society of America for best haibun collection (Special Category Honorable Mention). This anthology resulted from the first-ever haibun contest conducted in English, held in the spring and summer of 1996. Read the book’s introduction. See the Press Here book page.

Shades of Green: 1997 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1997. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page. This book was also the featured book of the week in early April of 2018 on the Haiku Foundation website, where you click to view a scan of the entire book.

Northern Lights: 1995 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1995. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

Hammerhorn Lake

Collection of rengay written with Garry Gay and John Thompson. The first book of rengay ever published. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1995. Read the book’s short introduction (with links to all rengay included).

A Haiku Path

Coeditor of a book about the history of the first twenty years of the Haiku Society of America. New York: Haiku Society of America, 1994. Read my afterword. Available on Amazon. See also Ce Rosenow’s review.       +       +

Thornewood Poems

Haiku sequence. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1994. Read the book’s introduction and all the poems.

Footsteps in the Fog

Editor, and one of six contributing poets. A collection of tanka; one of earliest anthologies of tanka written in English. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1994. Also released as an audio recording (cassette tape), made of the launch reading at Villa Montalvo, Saratoga, California, 27 February 1994. Read the book’s introduction and see my tanka from the book. See the Press Here book page, and see the review by Tom Lynch from Woodnotes.

The Shortest Distance: 1993 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor with Ebba Story. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1993. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

Fig Newtons: Senryu to Go

Editor, and one of seven contributing poets. A collection of senryu. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1993. Read the introduction and all my poems. See the Press Here book page. Winner of a 1994 Merit Book Award honourable mention (for books published in 1993) from the Haiku Society of America. See the Woodnotes review by Kay F. Anderson.

A Vote for Alice

Political parody of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Introduction by Sandor Burstein, president of the Lewis Carroll Society of North America. Foster City: Press Here, 1992. See the Press Here book page. Available (sometimes) on Amazon. See The Mouse’s Tale” parody poem from this book.       +

The Gulf Within

Editor with Christopher Herold of an anthology of Gulf War haiku by members of the Haiku Poets of Northern California. San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 1991. Read my poems from the book. See “Gulf War Poetry Reading” by Kimberly Cortner. See also a review from Woodnotes by Jerry Kilbride, who referred to The Gulf Within as a book of iron.”

Books for the Conscientious Publisher

An annotated bibliography of books relating to desktop publishing, graphic design, typography, editing, and writing, produced in conjunction with a seminar on desktop publishing haiku books that I gave at the first Haiku North America conference. Foster City, California, privately published, 1991.

Harvest: 1991 Haiku North America Conference Anthology

Editor. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1991. This anthology commemorated the first-ever Haiku North America conference, held in California. Read the book’s introduction and selected poems. See the Press Here book page.

The Haijin’s Tweed Coat

Haiku sequence. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1990. Winner of a Merit Book Award honourable mention from the Haiku Society of America. See also the second, expanded edition published in 2000. Read the poems (from the second edition). See the Press Here book page.

Tremors

A collection of earthquake haiku written in response to the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1990. Read an overview of the book, with selected poems and links to additional content. See the Press Here book page.

Two Autumns

John Thompson, editor. Anthology featuring Patricia Donegan, Eugenie Waldteufel, Michael Dylan Welch, and Paul O. Williams for the first-ever Two Autumns reading sponsored by the Haiku Poets of Northern California, held on 27 October 1990 in Berkeley, California. San Francisco: Two Autumns Press, 1990. Read selected poems.     +

Egret

Haiku collection. Foster City, California: Press Here, 1989. Read an overview and selected poems, with photos. See also the book’s haibun (which I think was my first ever), “The Cat’s Bell,” and a sequence, Twilight.

A Sense of Play:

An Annotated Linguistic Study of Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange

Master’s thesis. Riverside, California: Loma Linda University, 1988.       +

Yosemite

Haiku and other short poems. Riverside, California: n.p., 1988. Read an overview and selected poems.

Noble Savages

Epistolary fiction. Riverside, California: n.p., 1988.

Haiku

Riverside, California: n.p., 1986. Read an overview, with links to selected poems.

Family

Concrete poems. Winnipeg, Manitoba: n.p., 1985.

Chronology

Collected poetic juvenilia, in three volumes (second volume is either missing or was never completed). Winnipeg, Manitoba: n.p., 1985.

Ninety-Seven Poems

Poems collected for a creative writing class in college. n.p.: n.p., 1984. See overview with links to selected poems.

Short Stories

Stories collected from a creative writing class in college. Winnipeg: Manitoba: n.p., 1981.

My poems and essays also appear in numerous anthologies from W. W. Norton, Tuttle, Kodansha, Andrews-McMeel, MQP, Mosaic, Iron Press, Writer’s Digest Books, Brooks Books, Red Moon Press, Borealis Press, Les Éditions David, Black Moss Press, Leaf Press, and numerous other publishers. Poems are also included in dozens of broadsides. I have more than 4,000 individual poems published in hundreds of journals in at least twenty languages (most recently Turkish, Swahili, and Punjabi).



My book on Noh for sale at Kinokuniya Bookshop in Futakotamagawa, Tokyo. Photo by Emiko Miyashita.