Close to the Wind collects nearly a hundred haiku and senryu by attendees of the 2013 Haiku North America conference, held August 14 to 18, 2013 aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. Edited by Michael Dylan Welch and William Hart, this wide-ranging anthology features many of the leading poets writing haiku in the English language, together with seaside-related illustrations by Naia. "Haiku is not a port in a storm." -Marlene Mountain