The haiku and senryu in Nowhere Else serve as windows into the world of leading poets writing in North America and beyond. From a backroads diner to a North Beach café, these poems have nowhere else to be. This anthology, edited and introduced by Michael Dylan Welch and Chuck Brickley, features 134 haiku and senryu by poets who practice the art of discovery. This book’s contributors all attended the eighteenth biennial Haiku North America conference, held in San Francisco, California, where they have joined together to celebrate deeply observed experience. We invite you to share their discoveries. CONTRIBUTORS: Mimi Ahern, Susan Antolin, Fay Aoyagi, Evelyn Atreya, Shelley Baker-Gard, Francine Banwarth, Dyana Basist, Kae Bendixen, Brad Bennett, Emily Bernhardt, Lisa Billa, Jacob Blumner, Deborah Bowman, Henry Brann, Chuck Brickley, Alan S. Bridges, Sondra J. Byrnes, Sean Carlton, David Chandler, Peg Cherrin-Myers, Jim Chessing, Thomas Chockley, Margaret Chula, Bill Cooper, Daniel Shank Cruz, Diana Davison, Billie Dee, Brian DeMuth, Jennifer Ann Dennehy, Anna DiMartino, J Hahn Doleman, Katie Dozier, Michael Dudley, Keith Ekiss (translator), Anna Eklund-Cheong, Jonathan English, Gary Evans, Judson Evans, Susan Farner, Bruce H. Feingold, Denise Fontaine-Pincince, Robert Forsythe, Dennis Owen Frohlich, Shinko Fushimi, Patrick Gallagher, Garry Gay, Marilyn Gehant, Lisa Gerlits, Richard Gilbert, David Grayson, John S Green, Lee Gurga, Johnnie Johnson Hafernik, Judy Halebsky, Carolyn Hall, Jennifer Hambrick, Robert Hass, Quamrul Hassan, Akemi Hinoki, Jeff Hoagland, Frank Hooven, Samantha Pardo Irigoyen, J.B., jim kacian, Janet Kassalen, Julie Bloss Kelsey, Phillip Kennedy, kjmunro, Yvette Nicole Kolodji, David Lasky, Kat Lehmann, Doris Jean Lynch, paul m., Patricia J. Machmiller, Annette Makino, Scott Mason, Richard L. Matta, Tanya McDonald, Elizabeth McMunn-Tetangco, Scott Metz, Sarah E. Metzler, Beverly Acuff Momoi, Katsuhiko Momoi, Patti Niehoff, Mitsue Nikaido, Helen Ogden, Renée Owen, Kathe L. Palka, Robin Palley, Linda Papanicolaou, Sarah Paris, Arlie Parker, Kenneth Francis Pearson, Sharon Pretti, Holly Brians Ragusa, Cristina Rascón, Scott Reid, Valérie Rivoallon, Wakako Rollinger, Michele Root-Bernstein, Ce Rosenow, Yukari Saisho, Jacob D. Salzer, Agnes Eva Savich, Michelle Schaefer, Julia Shahid, Sandra Simpson, Crystal Simone Smith, Lyle Smith, Robin Smith, John Stevenson, Bob Stewart, Jennifer Sutherland, Rick Tarquinio, Michelle Tennison, Terri Thorfinnson, thrum, Kathleen Tice, Richard Tice, Nathanael Tico, Michèle Boyle Turchi, D. F. Tweney, Kyoko Uchimura, Rosalie P. van Nuis, Patricia Wakimoto, David Watts, Lew Watts, Linda Weir, Michael Dylan Welch, Christine Wenk-Harrison, Allyson Whipple, Valorie Broadhurst Woerdehoff, Alison Woolpert, and Sharon Lynne Yee.