Red Moon Press (RMP) is an American publishing house located in Winchester, Virginia, specializing in haiku and related genres. It was founded by Jim Kacian in 1993 as a means of bringing English-language haiku to a broader readership, and has become “. . . an undisputed service to the English-language haiku community.[1]
RMP is best-known for its signature annual Red Moon Anthology of English-Language Haiku, produced 1996 – present, and termed by one historian of the genre “. . . simply the best thing out there.”[2] Since 1999 it has also produced the annual ‘’contemporary haibun series as well as the biennial ‘’New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-Language Haiku series. In addition it publishes 4-8 individual collections each year, and now has produced nearly 150 titles.
Anthologies
edit- Red Moon Anthology of English-language Haiku (series), 1996–present
- Contemporary Haibun (series), 1999–present
- A New Resonance: Emerging Voices in English-language Haiku (series), 1999–present
- the tanka anthology (edited by Michael McClintock, Pamela Miller Ness & Jim Kacian, 2003) ISBN 1-893959-40-6
Selected Individual Collections
edit- endgrain (Dee Evetts, 1996) ISBN 0-9657818-1-x
- Some of the Silence (John Stevenson, 1998) ISBN 0-9657818-7-9
- A Week in the Lake District (John Elsberg, 1998) ISBN 1-893959-02-3
- A Future Waterfall (Ban’ya Natsuishi, 1999) ISBN 1-893959-04-x
- Haiku Guy (David G. Lanoue, 2000) ISBN 1-893959-13-9
- gathering as the crossroads (Lenard D. Moore, 2001) ISBN 1-893959-25-2
- tree & grass cairn (Santoka, translations by Hiroaki Sato, 2002) ISBN 1-893959-28-7
- at the tombstone (Dimitar Anakiev, 2002) ISBN 1-893959-31-7
- late geese up a dry fork (Burnell Lippy, 2003) ISBN 1-893959-35-x
- A String Untouched: Haiku of Dag Hammarskjöld (translations by Kaj Falkman, 2006) ISBN 1-893959-57-0
- Presents of Mind (Jim Kacian, translations into Japanese by Kon Nichi Translation Group, 2006) ISBN 978-1-893959-59-7
- New Rising Haiku (Ito Yuki, 2007) ISBN 978-1-893959-64-4
- waking on the bridge (Martin Shea, 2008) ISBN 978-1-893959-71-2
- Poems of Consciousness: Contemporary Japanese and English-language Haiku in Cross-cultural Perspective (Richard Gilbert, 2008) ISBN 978-1-893959-72-9
- the nether world (D. Claire Gallagher, 2009) ISBN 978-1-893959-81-1
- Ksana (John Martone, 2008) ISBN 978-1-893959-84-2
- a gate left open (Alice Frampton, 2008) ISBN 978-1-893959-85-9
- seeds (Yu Chang, 2008) ISBN 978-1-893959-87-3
- more wine (William Ramsey, 2009) ISBN 978-1-893959-91-0
- as far as i can (Dietmar Tauchner, 2010) ISBN 978-1-893959-93-4
- How to Paint the Finch's Song (Carolyn Hall, 2010) ISBN 978-1-893959-94-1
- everything i touch (Robert Boldman, 20010) ISBN 978-1-893959-95-8
- inside out (Christopher Herold, 2010) ISBN 978-1-893959-96-5
- sunrise (Peter Yovu, 2010) ISBN 978-1-893959-97-2
- burl (Mark Harris, 2012) ISBN 978-1-936949-04-1
- distant virga (Allan Burns, 2012) ISBN 978-1-936949-08-9
- Book of Dreams (Steven Carter, 2012) ISBN 978-1-936949-15-7
- A Zodiac (Paul Pfleuger, Jr., 2013) ISBN 978-1-936949-18-8
- before music (Philip Rowland, 2013) ISBN 978-1-936949-19-5
- Selected Haiku 1961-2012 (Tohta Kaneko, translated by the Kon Nichi Translation Group, 2013) ISBN 978-1-936949-20-1
- Anchorage’’ (David Cobb, 2014) ISBN 978-1-936949-26-3
- ’’d(ark)’’ (John Stevenson, 2014) ISBN 978-1-936949-27-0
- overtones’’ (Bill Cooper, 2014) ISBN 978-1-936949-28-7
- ’’Songs and Stories of The Kojiki’’ (Yoko Danno, 2014) ISBN 978-1-936949-30-0
- ’’contingencies’’ (Mike Dillon, 2014) ISBN 978-1-936949-33-1
- ’’Elements of a Life’’ (Rebecca Lilly, 2014) ISBN 978-1-936949-34-8
References
1. J. P. Trammell, Modern Haiku, XXIX.3, p. 68 (1998).
2. Charles Trumbull, Frogpond, XXI.3, p. 86 (1998).