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Haiku and Related Forms

A haiku is a brief poem, based originally on the type of Japanese poem by that name, but now written in over 25 languages and more than 50 countries. Related forms include haikai no renga (also known as renku) or linked poetry, haibun (prose with haiku), and tanka ("short poems" a little longer than haiku and more openly emotional).Web sites that actively request submissions for online or print journals are being moved into the "haiku publications" subcategory.

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• - Haiku, mainly in Japanese, but much of the site is bilingual with English as well. (If you're not set up to read Japanese on the Web, you'll see some gibberish.) A refreshing view from Japan, with contributions by others. Hosted by Noriko Kageyama.
  
• - A modest site dedicated to haiku poetry. The site contains haiku written by the site creator and encourages participation by other haiku poets. Managed by Colin Shaddick.
  
• - The main entry page to Jane Reichhold's world of haiku, tanka, and linked poetry. One of the largest "haiku and related" sites on the WWW, with frequent new material.
  
• - Gateway to the English-language pages of the museum in Tokyo run by the Haiku Poets Association, Japan's largest haiku organization.
  
• - A collection of haiku by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, in romanized Japanese and with fine translations by David Lanoue.
  
• - This is a biennial moveable feast of haiku involving Canadian, US, and Mexican poets and their theories. Previous conferences have taken place in New York, Boston, Evanston IL, Portland OR, Toronto, and its point of origination, the San Francisco Bay Area
  
• - A new haiku site conducted by Alexander Lawrence and associates. So far, mostly links--carefully chosen and categorized. Also invites submission of haiku for future publication on the site.
  
• - The Shiki Haikusphere is the new form of the Shiki Internet Haiku Salon web site, now hosted at Ehime University, Japan, and brought to us by the continued efforts of the Shiki Team in Matsuyama.
  
• - Phil Adams's haiku homepage, featuring haiku by a number of poets and good information on haiku in England. Submit your own haiku.
  
• - Links to the haiku world in English by Gerald England. In addition to the useful links to many different haiku web sites, there are links to reviews of dozens of haiku publications his New Hope International writers have commented on in recent years a
  
• - A page of haiku dedicated to remembrance of those who lost their lives or loved ones in the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. Submissions welcomed; managed by Thayne.
  
• - A succinct history of haiku in North America, with insights as to why haiku flourished there and how North American haiku have influenced the worldwide haiku community. By George Swede, a leading poet and critic in the genre.
  
• - Essays, criticisms, analyses..., haiku gallery, book reviews, selected haiku etc. Bilingual (Serbian/English). Webmaster Saša Važić. (From home, click on British flag for English.)
  
• - Homepage leading to discussions of sijo, haiku, renga and other forms, Asian and otherwise. Hosted by Larry Gross.
  
• - One of the most comprehensive collections of links to haiku and related materials on the WWW. Extremely well categorized, easy to use. Well maintained by Mark Alan Osterhaus.
  
• - A comprehensive bibliography of books on haiku in English, by Kristen Deming, a past president of the Haiku Society of America.
  
• - Haiku and poetry and liguistics. Among other things, contains samples of English-language haiku in a range of forms, plus essays on linguistics and haiku by site owner Richard Gilbert.
  
• - Links pertaining to haiku, senryu, tanka and other short forms of poetry, selected and annotated.
  
• - An international haiku site in English and French, featuring haiku theory and practice, publication, rules, reading corner. Online submissions accepted. Includes "Aozora", a special sub-section devoted to the haiku scene in southeastern Europe,
  
• - The entry page to the Japan Air Lines Foundation's world of children's haiku. For decades, JAL and the JAL Foundation have been encouraging children worldwide to write haiku. These pages give lots of information, examples (including children's art), and a
  
• - The Mann Library at Cornell University presents a fresh haiku by an outstanding American haiku poet each day. Click on the "daily haiku" link. Edited by Tom Clausen.
  
• - A siteful of "digital haiga" created in collaboration with many haiku poets from Japan and worldwide, by Kuniharu Shimizu.
  
• - Summary of a talk by Prof. Eleanor Kerkham, of the University of Maryland.
  
• - "Haiku Monuments" are modest in scale, usually including simply the text of a well-loved poem and the name of the author. The city of Matsuyama and Ehime Prefecture, home to such poets as Shiki and Santoka, and visted by Saigyo and many others,
  
• - Links to a series of brief pages with introductory material on haiku by professors associated with Columbia University: Donald Keene, and Haruo Shirane. Includes brief video and audio clips.
  
• - This is the English home-page of the Matsuo Basho Memorial Museum in his hometown, Ueno City, Mie Prefecture. Sponsors an annual English-language haiku contest with an August deadline, in connection with its Basho Festival in October each year.
  
• - Portal to dozens of experiments with and extensions of haiku, managed by Paul T. Conneally.
  
• - A primer on haiku.
  
• - Haikuworld is dedicated to bringining poets, publishers, and readers together. Information on books, magazines, and contests. Monthly haiku kukai. Webmaster Gary Warner.
  
• - Haiku, tanka, sijo, related genres and articles by internationally known as well as promising poets of these genres.
  
• - A WWW classic haiku site with many fine pages of excellent information on haiku, now with some new material. (If a link seems gibberish, scroll down for English.)
  
• - A comparative selection of poems in both the traditional Japanese and Korean forms, respectively. Markets, links, definitions, supplied by Neca Stoller.
  
• - A fine haiku anthology built entirely online, and featuring quick loading, single-haiku presentation for contemplation, and brief biographical notes on authors. Clean, well thought out, and frequently updated with new work.
  
• - Five hundred traditional Japanese season words with authoritative English translations, seasonally organized, for the benefit of haiku and linked poem poets and translators of traditional Japanese poetry. Selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto, translated by Kris
  
• - One of the most comprehensive collections of links to haiku resources on the Internet, assembled by Michael P. Garofalo. He is also a gardener, and his site, while very thorough on haiku, can take you to other corners as well.
  
• - Brazilian haiku site, largely in Portuguese, but with substantial information about haiku and representation in English of many International haiku poets. Webmaster, Rosa Clemente.
  
• - "200 Best Haiku of Japanese Literature." An interesting selection, in variable translations. Just a touch sentimental here and there.
  
• - Legacy site of one of the more interesting Japanese haiku publication Web sites in English (and French and Japanese). Contains much information on haiku, tanka, and related subjects. Edited by Ryu Yotsuya and Niji Fuyuno.
  
• - A lesson in Haiku appreciation and writing, conducted by Paul Brown.
  
• - "Contemporary Haiku: Origins and New Directions", an essay by A.C. Missias. Clear summary of the situation in English.
  
• - Legacy web site of the online haiku magazine edited by Gary Warner, last updated in 1998. Some good haiku reading.
  
• - Links to web pages that amplify information found in 'The Art of Haiku 2000', a book from Gerald England's New Hope International Press.
  
• - A thorough and highly technical discussion of serious haiku form in English, by Keiko Imaoka, a Japanese-American poet who writes in both languages. Highly recommended for advanced poets.
  
• - This is the welcome page of the California State Library, home of the American Haiku Archive. A simple search on the keyword "haiku" currently produces over 1600 items, mostly donated by Elizabeth Searle Lamb; undoubtedly the largest public coll
  
• - Haiku by Soji, aka Gary Barnes, haiku by the masters, Basho, Buson, Issa, and by a number of contemporary practitioners of the art in English.
  
• - Science-fiction haiku including poetry, explanations of scifaiku, and a mailing list.
  
• - A collection of essays on the haiku form and its history, by Kametaro Yagi, from his book. Some of the information is dated.
  
• - Also has a "Foreign" section, with material in English, French, and Japanese. Definition of Haiku.
  
• - An innovative site with haiku by several hands and music, brought to you by John Hudak. Back online after some hiatus.
  
• - Haiku by 10 classical and modern masters, with brief biographies
  
• - A group of pages devoted to Issa and his haiku, prepared by Yoshi Mikami. In both Japanese and English.
  
• - Japanese Haiku and the Haiku Exchange Project; Languages section, World Kid Magazine. Each issue of World Kid magazine will feature different languages from throughout the world. This page is edited by Kenji Shiramizu.
  
• - A very brief introduction to haiku with a few links to more extensive Haiku sites.
  
• - Legacy web site of Haiku Spirit, a now defunct print journal of haiku, haibun, tanka renga and related forms with anthologies, articles and book reviews. Edited by Sean O'Connor and Jim Norton.
  
• - "Create haiku in response to the photos on our site, then send them us." Or send photos for others to respond to with haiku. Pretty, tame. Site is bilingual, English and Japanese.
  
• - John Carley's inventive response to the haiku, with examples by himself and several others. Plus translations, and much information on renku and related matters.
  
• - Haiku combined with nature photography. One of the nicest haiku + photo treatments I've seen, and it loads in a snap. Kudos to R. V. Rasmussen.
  
• - Web site of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of United States and Canada, a Bay Area group with international membership and extensive activities built around a tradition-based understanding of haiku.
  
• - This site gives information on the substantial literary prizes given as a result of the Matsuyama Declaration of 1999. Watch here for award announcements. Maintained by the Ehime Culture Foundation, Ehime Prefecture, Japan.
  
  

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