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| Issue 33: | August 2026 |
| Visual Art: | Shahai |
By Maxianne Berger
Three Shahai
ghost vines © by Maxianne Berger. All rights reserved.
polar melt © by Maxianne Berger. All rights reserved.
rainy-day romp (2024) © by Maxianne Berger. All rights reserved.
Maxianne Berger
is a poet, translator, and retired clinical audiologist. A lyrical poet since 1985, she turned to Japanese genres at the turn of the millennium, and her tanka, haiku, haibun, articles, and book reviews, in both English and French, have been published internationally in print and online. She has coedited four anthologies, two of haiku and two of tanka. And she is the author of five books; her most recent was published in 2025 by Yarrow Press, You Are Here: Haiku & Senryu.
An explorer of OuLiPo constraints for haiku, her collection of found haiku “plundered” from Moby Dick via erasure—Winnows (Nietzsche’s Brolly, Toronto, 2016)—was honored with a tie for Third Place in Haiku Society of America’s Merit Book Awards for 2017. Since the pandemic, Berger has focused on creating photo haiga (aka shahai). She has lived in Montréal, Quebec, since the year of her birth.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ New to Haiku: Advice for Beginners – Maxianne Berger, interviewed by Julie Bloss Kelsey in Troutswirl, The Haiku Foundation Blog (2 August 2026)
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