Drifting Sands Haibun

Drifting Sands Haibun (https://drifting-sands-haibun.org) is an international poetry journal featuring the haiku-related arts (primarily focusing on haibun, tanka prose, and haiga) written in the English language. These forms involve the incorporation of prose and/or imagery interwoven with haiku or tanka poems. The journal was founded in 2020 at the beginning of the pandemic and has served as a platform to bring people together when isolation was the order of the day. 

Along with the journal, the project also includes a newly-formed podcast series which you'll find hosted here. In it, we discuss these forms of poetry and are treated to readings by the poets (often award-winning poets) who have appeared in the pages of the journal.

Our goal, as an international journal, is to share these rich forms with the world. We hope you enjoy listening and will stop by the journal and see for yourself what a diverse and compelling body of work this collection of poets is creating.