ORGANIZATIONS & COMMUNITIES

The World Haiku Club "The World Haiku Club is a network for haiku-loving people from all corners of the earth . . . [It] endorses individualism, celebrates diversity and encourages international exchanges of haiku poems, viewpoints and friendship." This is a fine starting point and introduction to the international haiku community. See the World Haiku Review.

World Haiku Association "The World Haiku Association, . . . mission to provide a forum where the many practices of haiku around the world can be shown, shared and discussed . . . This is to be a moderated site with each haiku culture assigned a national editor who will receive the incoming submissions from poets in their jurisdiction, choose amongst the poems and send them to the website managers."

The Haiku Society of America "is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1968 to promote the writing and appreciation of haiku in English."

Tanka Society of America "aims to further the writing, reading, study, and appreciation of tanka poetry in English."

Tanka elist - an online tanka writers' community - "Tanka is Japan's oldest poetry form. Traditionally a tanka has five lines with 5-7-5-7-7 syllables. In English some count syllables and some just have short-long-short-long-long lines. If you know haiku, you know half of a tanka. Unlike haiku, tanka encourage feelings and emotions. Here is the place to try out a new poetry form. Give and get feedback on your poems."

North Carolina Haiku Society "The North Carolina Haiku Society was founded in 1979 to promote the writing and appreciation of haiku in English. Our members support these goals by writing haiku, by hosting an annual Haiku Holiday, and by maintaining this Web site." This is a really lovely site - check it out.

HaikuOz - The Australian Haiku Society "In December, 2000, Australian haiku enthusiasts banded together to form HaikuOz, to promote haiku within Australia, and bring Australian writers to the world haiku community."

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                  ONLINE JOURNALS

Contemporary Haibun Online is a major site for haibun - a must see site. Check this site out.

The Heron's Nest: a haikai journal is one of the premier Haiku ezines on the Web. Edited by Christopher Herold and Associate Editors, Ferris Gilli and Paul MacNeil, The Heron's Nest awards outstanding haiku.

Haijinx "Haijinx is a new quarterly web journal that focuses on the role of humor in haiku in an effort to keep haiku fresh." (May still be on hiatus.)

Lynx Lynx: A Journal for Linking Poets.

Poetry in the Light is a major site for haiku, tanka, and sijo - truly a must see site. It includes the fine ezines "Haiku Light", "Tanka Light" and "Sijo Blossoms." Go, and learn from a master - Elizabeth St Jacques. Joann Klontz is the Associate Editor of "Haiku Light."

Haiku Spirit "This independent site is a space for sharing haiku in English and French in collaboration with Haiku Spirit, the Irish Journal of Haiku and Related Forms."

Dublin Writers Club Haiku Spirit Irish Journal of Haiku and Related Forms.

Triptych Haiku : An Experimental Journal in blog format.

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                  ILLUSTRATED POETRY WEBSITES

HAIGA Online is "a journal of painting and haiku poetry inspired by the Japanese art form known as 'haiga'." You must see this truly beautiful ezine edited by Linda Papanicolaou.

Reeds: Contemporary Haiga, edited by Jeanne Emrich - "an annual online anthology of fine art inspired by the Japanese genre known as haiga or haiku painting. Here you will find the best of haiga, articles, and interviews from past years of the companion annual hardcopy Reeds: Contemporary Haiga." Highly recommended!

Interactive PHOTO-HAIKU Second Edition by Mitsugu Abe - you have got to see this site!

Interactive PHOTO-HAIKU First Edition - Overcoming Time and Distance by Mitsugu Abe.

A Haiku and Photography Webpage by Ray Rasmussen. "This webpage is about Japanese haiku poetry expressed with landscape photography. The landscape setting is the Kurimoto Japanese Garden, Devonian Botanic Garden, University of Alberta, Edmonton and Devon, Alberta, Canada."

See Haiku Here is Kuniharu Shimizu's outstanding website of haiga - the art of incorporating haiku with painting. Be sure to see this site!"

PhotoHaiku Arts is Roderick Stewart's beautiful website of photo-haiga. Don't miss it!"

Floating Stone - Floating Stone: The Art and Poetry of Susumu Takiguchi. Definitely see this elegant website.

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                  EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES & ARTICLES

A. C. Missias Here is a fine overview article on haiku by a respected poet - "Contemporary Haiku: Origins and New Directions".

Forms in English Haiku is a fine article by Keiko Imaoka dealing with the perennial issue of syllable counting.

"In The Moonlight a Worm..." "This website offers teachers and students an introduction to writing haiku poems, a chance to study the history and nature of haiku poetry and an introduction to the fundamental principles of creative writing. It is free and non-profit making. If you are a teacher, you may download the lesson plans and photocopiable poem sheets and use them with your classes. If you would like to teach yourself how to write haiku, or would like to study haiku, or to learn the most fundamental poetry lesson ever, you are welcome to use the self-study units and the reference section." "In The Moonlight a Worm..." is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of England.

The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words Selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto, translated by Kris Young Kondo and William J. Higginson; edited for Renku Home with added information on the seasonal system by William J. Higginson.

A Dictionary of Haiku Classified by Season Words with Traditional and Modern Methods by Jane Reichhold.

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu 100 Poems by 100 Poets - excellent historical tanka text.

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                  PERSONAL WEBSITES & LINKS PAGES

Haikuworld Gary Warner's webpage. "haikuworld exists to help publishers, poets, and readers discover one another."

AHA! POETRY is Jane Reichhold's great links page - don't miss the news link and, especially, don't miss the Haiku link and the Tanka link.

Paper Lanterns is Debi Bender's outstanding Resource Library and her personal pages. You have to see this one!

Links to Haiku Sites webpage by Mark Alan Osterhaus. This is one of the best links pages and a great place to start surfing the Web in search of haiku resources. Also see his Tanka webpage and his personal haiku page.

Haiku Poetry Haiku Poetry Links, References, Resources, indexed by Michael Garofalo.

Kapok Tree Haiku Try Rosa Clement's site for Brazilian haiku.

Haiku Poets Hut "built & maintained by Soji" is a fine example of a Haiku Website. Check it out!

A. C. Missias' Poetry Pages.

Alexey Andreyev's Haiku Page.

Captain Haiku's Secret Hideout Michael Dylan Welch's personal page, with excellent bibliographical materials.

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                  PRINT JOURNALS

Frogpond "The journal Frogpond is an official publication of The Haiku Society of America. Its primary function is to publish the best in contemporary English-language haiku and senryu, linked forms including sequences, renku, rengay and haibun, essays and articles on these forms, and book reviews. The magazine is published three times a year and a supplement is published annually."

Modern Haiku "Modern Haiku was founded by Kay Titus Mormino, who edited the magazine from 1969 until 1977. It continues today, edited and published by Robert Spiess, as the longest continuous English-language haiku magazine, appearing three times a year ..." Associate Editor: Lee Gurga. See also Modern Haiku.

Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem "Tundra is a journal for short poetry rooted in the crystal image, edited by Michael Dylan Welch." See also Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem.

Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku "Acorn is a small biannual journal dedicated to publishing the best of contemporary English-language haiku. In particular, it hopes to showcase the individual poem, and haiku's ability to reveal the extraordinary moments found in everyday life." A.C. Missias, editor. See also Acorn: A Journal of Contemporary Haiku.

bottle rockets: a collection of short verse "A magazine dedicated to haiku, senryu and related poetry."

Ribbons: Tanka Society of America Journal "In our new TSA Journal, Ribbons, we are pleased to bring to readers the very finest examples of tanka, not only from the past, but those being written today. Tanka that are individual word-ribbons woven together from the fabric of our own lives and culture." -an'ya, Ribbons Editor.

American Tanka "Founded in 1996, American Tanka is dedicated exclusively to presenting contemporary English-language tanka. Published yearly, the journal has a world-wide circulation and its list of contributors regularly includes many of the most well-known tanka poets of today."

Brooks Books "English-Language Haiku On the Web."

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