Paperclips

Paperclips: 2001 Haiku North America Anthology

Michael Dylan Welch, Carol Purington, and Larry Kimmel, editors

Karen Klein, ink brush paintings

Paperclips features 97 haiku and senryu by attendees of the 2001 Haiku North America conference, held June 28–July 1 at Boston Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. Also included are winners of a children’s haiku contest, with commentary.


the rusted paperclip

has stained my old poem

wind in the eaves

Cor van den Heuvel


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2001, 40 pages, 5½ x 8½ inches, ISBN 978-1-878798-24-3


  • “This anthology celebrates the sixth of the biennial Haiku North America conferences. In 2001 the event finds itself at the Boston Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts. An anthology such as this preserves not just haiku but also the spirit of the conference it represents. A paperclip may grow rusty and stain the paper to which it is attached, but age does not touch the poet who can consistently find words to illuminate the unseen or the overlooked. We trust that these poems will remain unstained by time, offering shining insights to all who will encounter them.” —from the back cover