In this episode, In this episode of Poetry Pea, the leading English-language haiku podcast, Patricia McGuire shares the haiku and senryū selected from the June 2026 Poetry Pea Video Prompt, beautifully curated by Lakshmi Iyer.

Expect poems filled with birdsong, summer heat, nesting season, squirrels, sparrows, warblers and the small moments that make haiku so memorable. Alongside the selected poems, Patricia also reads a collection of bonus sparrow haiku by contemporary poets and classics from Bashō and Buson.

If today's episode inspires you, why not join the next Poetry Pea Video Prompt? New prompts appear on the Poetry Pea YouTube channel almost every month, and your haiku could be featured on a future Poetry Pea Podcast and published in the Poetry Pea Journal.

Whether you're an experienced haiku poet or just discovering the genre, this episode is a joyful celebration of observation, nature and the Poetry Pea community.

Poets featured:

Neena Singh

Ralph Mathews

Alicia Samson

Rupa Anand

Rupa Anand

Reid Hepworth

Vaishnavi Ramaswamy

Susanne Urowitz

Seamus O' Connor

Mona Bedi

Melissa Dennison

Joanna Ashwell

Mary Oishi

Joshua St. Claire

Jo Balistreri

Buson, Trs Michael Haldane

Keith Evetts

Bruce H Feingold

Bill Fay

Craig Kittner

Isabel Caves

Kristen Lindquist

David Oates, PPJ

Sankara Jayanth

Basho, Trs David Landis Barnhill