This Issue 2 of Ambrosia: Journal of Fine Haiku includes another 100 top drawer haiku from thirty-one fine poets. All these poets, while writing in English, respect the formal values of traditional Japanese haiku. Ambrosia holds that a haiku in English, to be fine, must have the traditional shape and duration of haiku, its metre and music, and exhibit aspects of traditional Japanese poetic aesthetics. We prefer haiku written in a natural, modern, English idiom with great care for the sound of the verse when spoken. Ambrosia’s haiku touch the reader powerfully.
