clouds seen

through clouds

seen through

• "Rowland, Philip (Autumn 2008). "From Haiku to the Short Poem: Bridging the divide". Modern Haiku 39(3), pp.23-45 ISSN 0026-7821
• Yovu, Peter (Winter 2008). "Do Something Different". Frogpond XXXI, pp.51-61 ISSN 8755-156X

• Global Haiku and the work of Jim Kacian (Richard Gilbert, 2003)

• Mann Library’s Daily Haiku

• Jim Kacian — Essays & Selected Haiku

• The Haiku Anthology, 3rd ed. (Cor van den Heuvel) Norton, 1999 ISBN 0-393-04743-1
• Haiku Moment (ed. Bruce Ross) Tuttle, 1993 ISBN 0 8048 1820 7
• Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac (ed. William J. Higginson)
• The New Haiku (eds. John Barlow & Martin Lucas)
• Haiku Mind (ed. Patricia Donegan)
• Journey to the Interior: American Versions of Haibun (ed. Bruce Ross)
• How to Haiku (Bruce Ross)
• Haiku: A Poet's Guide (Lee Gurga)
• Baseball Haiku (ed. Cor van den Heuvel)
• Haiku: Poetry Ancient & Modern (ed. Jackie Hardy) (also German and French editions)
• Haiku International Anthology (ed. Ban’ya Natsuishi) www.terebess.com
• Poems of Consciousness (Richard Gilbert) Red Moon Press 2008 ISBN 978-1893959729

my fingerprints

on the dragonfly

in amber

• A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-language Haiku (series), 1999-present
• Contemporary Haibun (series), 1999-present
• Red Moon Anthology of English-language Haiku (series), 1996-present
• Frogpond, the Journal of the Haiku Society of America, from 1998 to 2004.
• Dozen Tongues (series) (vols. 1 & 2), 2000-2001
• Knots: The Anthology of Southeast European Haiku Poetry (with Dimitar Anakiev), 1999
• South by Southeast from 1993 to 1998.

As a poet

• The Kusamakura International Haiku Competition (Japan, 2008)
• The Winter Moon International Haiku Competition (2008)
• The Cascina Macondo Concorso Internazionale de Poesia Haiku in Lingua Italiana 5th Edizione (Italy, 2007)
• The 17th Ito-En Haiku Competition Judge's Award (Japan, 2007)
• The Hawai’i Education Association Haiku Competition (2007)
• The Harold G. Henderson Haiku Competition Prize (Haiku Society of America) (2005)
• The British Haiku Society James W. Hackett International Haiku Award (2001)
• Betty Drevniok (Haiku Canada (2000, 2001, 2002, 2008)
• Poem of the Year, 2009, The Heron's Nest, Volume XI (ISBN to follow)

Individual collection awards

• Long After
• Presents of Mind
• Six Directions: Haiku and Field Notes
• Border Lands

As a publisher

• Frogpond
• The Heron’s Nest
• Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant
• Simply Haiku
• Modern Haiku
• The Haiku Canada Newsletter
• Acorn

• "So:Ba" given at the International Haiku Conference (SUNY Plattsburgh, NY, July 2008); published serially in Frogpond XXXI:3 2008 p.73 (part one) ISSN 1089-9421, and forthcoming.

• "Bridges" given at the Haiku North America International Conference (Winston-Salem, NC, August 2007); published as "The Haiku Hierarchy," Modern Haiku 39(1), Spring 2008, ISSN 0026-7821.

• "State of the Art: Haiku in North America 2007" Second European Haiku Conference (Vadstena, Sweden, June 2007).

• "Dag Hammarskjöld: Haiku Poet and Photographer" (New York, New York, January 2006 ... book release of A String Untouched).

• Welcome Address (Sofia, Bulgaria, May 2005 ... World Haiku Association Conference).

• Welcome Address (Tokyo, Japan, October 2003 ... World Haiku Association Conference)
• "Around the World as Briefly as Possible", Pacific Rim Haiku Conference (November 2002, Los Angeles, California) published in Connecticut Review XXVII:2, Fall 2005 ISSN 00106216.

• "Looking and Seeing: How Haiga Works" given at the Haiku Society of American National Meeting, September 2002; published in Simply Haiku 2:5 (Autumn 2004); reprinted in The Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku 2004 (Red Moon Press), pp. 126-153.

• "Tapping the Common Well" (foreword) in Knots: The Anthology of Southeastern European Haiku Poetry Red Moon Press, 1999. ISBN 978-9619071502.

• "Beyond Kigo ... In Due Season" in Acorn Supplement #1 (2000) ISSN 1521-138X.

• "Van Gogh's Shoes" in Valley Voices 8:1 ISSN 1553-7668.

• Renga-Daddy: A Kasen Renga between Basho, Boncho, Kyorai and Shiho in the manner of Tristan Tzara based on "The First Winter Rain" from The Monkey's Straw Raincoat in commemoration of the 300th Anniversary of Basho's Death; Frogpond XIX:1 ISSN.

• The White Lotus Interview with Marie Summers - White Lotus #3 (Summer/Fall 2006) ISSN1556-3987.

• The Cascina Macondo Interview with Alessandra Gallo (issue number 13 of Writers Magazine Italia).

• Presents of Mind CD (haiku: Jim Kacian, Shakuhachi: Jeff Cairns, Japanese reader: Takke Kanemitsu) (2006).

• Around the World as Briefly as Possible CD (2003).

• Birthdate: Van den Heuvel, Cor, ed. (1999). The Haiku Anthology (3rd ed.). NY: Norton. p.336. ISBN 0-393-04743-1
• Poet: http://www.americanhaikuarchives.org/
• Essays: http://www.gendaihaiku.com/kacian/index.htm
• Primer: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/first-thoughts-a-haiku-primer-by-jim-kacian/
• World Haiku Association: http://www.worldhaiku.net/poetry/eng/us/j.kacian.htm

• Presents of Mind (Katsura Press, 1996) ISBN 0-9638551-8-2
• Chincoteague (Amelia Press, 1996) No ISBN
• Six Directions: Haiku and Field Notes (La Alameda Press, 1997) ISBN 0-9631909-4-6
• In Concert (Saki Press, 1999) ISBN 1-893823-07-5
• Second Spring (Red Moon Press, 2001) ISBN 1-893959-21-X
• Iz Kamna (Drustvo Apokalipsa, 2001) ISBN 961-6314-18-1
• dead reckoning (Red Moon Press, 2005) ISBN 1-893959-52-X
• How to Haiku (Red Moon Press, (online version only) 2006) No ISBN
• border lands (Red Moon Press, 2006 ISBN 1-893959-58-9)
• Presents of Mind (Red Moon Press, (second edition, bilingual) 2006) ISBN 1-893959-59-7
• orbis tertius (Red Moon Press, 2007) ISBN 978-1-893959-66-8
• long after (Albalibri Editore, Rosignano Marittimo: Italy (trilingual), 2008) ISBN 978-8889618585
• where i leave off / waar ik ophoud (’t schrijverke, 's-Hertogenbosch, 2010) ISBN 978-94-90607-02-9