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SEO Directory  »  In the Moonlight a Worm   - A detailed guide for the teaching of haiku to primary and secondary pupils, plus a self teaching guide.

SEO Directory  »  Millikin University Haiku   - Hosts haiku projects, research and publications. Includes student collections, information about courses, and details of past competitions.

SEO Directory  »  Aha! Poetry - The main entry page to Jane Reichhold's world of haiku, tanka, and linked poetry.

SEO Directory  »  The Art of Haiku - Articles, reviews, mailing list and links.

SEO Directory  »  Basho Memorial Museum - Sponsors an annual English-language haiku contest with an August deadline, in connection with its Basho Festival in October each year.

SEO Directory  »  Bilingual Haiku - A Japanese haiku poet's site, with substantial sections--including a season-word list, haiku by modern masters, and some of her own haiku--in English as well as Japanese. By Noriko Kageyama.

SEO Directory  »  Butterfly Dreams - Entry page of Butterfly Dreams: The Seasons through Haiku and Photographs. About thirty classic and modern Japanese haiku in translations by William J. Higginson, together with nature photographs by Michael Lustbader.

SEO Directory  »  California State Library - 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 collection in the US.

SEO Directory  »  Chaba - An innovative site with haiku by several hands and music, brought to you by John Hudak. Back online after some hiatus.

SEO Directory  »  Contemporary Haiku - "Contemporary Haiku: Origins and New Directions", an essay by A.C. Missias. Clear summary of the situation in English.

SEO Directory  »  Dhugal J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe - Offers many pages of information on haiku.

SEO Directory  »  Dogwood Blossoms - Legacy web site of the online haiku magazine edited by Gary Warner, last updated in 1998. Some good haiku reading.

SEO Directory  »  Fay Aoyagi's homepage - While this site includes a number of Fay Aoyagi's haiku, it also includes her striking translations of modern Japanese haiku by living masters, and a new page of "favorite haiku" by others, with her comments, that could become an important resource.

SEO Directory  »  First Australian Haiku Anthology - A haiku anthology built entirely online, and featuring quick loading, single-haiku presentation for contemplation, and brief biographical notes on authors.

SEO Directory  »  The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words - 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 Young Kondo and William J. Higginson.

SEO Directory  »  Free Times / Temps Libres - 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, with a list of and links to the Web sites of some dozen or more print magazines--many highly international. Webmaster Serge Tome.

SEO Directory  »  Gendai Haiku - A growing archive of commentary, translations, and multimedia materials in English, Japanese, and other languages on modern Japanese haiku, under the direction of Richard Gilbert.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku - Summary of a talk by Prof. Eleanor Kerkham, of the University of Maryland.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Beach - 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.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Dreaming Australia - A site devoted to haiku and senryu firmly set in Australian landscape and culture. Managed by John Bird.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku For Beginners - A lesson in Haiku appreciation and writing, conducted by Paul Brown.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku for People! - A primer on haiku.

SEO Directory  »  The Haiku Habit - Capture your special moments in nature by recording them in short evocative poems the Japanese call "haiku". Essays on writing, editing, and publishing haiku. By Jeanne Emrich and others.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Haven - Haiku, tanka and related forms of writing. Edited by Victoria Valentine.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Hike (World Walks) - A series of hikes through the London Olympic Development Site will take place with participants encouraged to share their feelings haiku-like or otherwise.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku North America - A biennial gathering of haiku poets. Includes background, details of the current year's event, and past conference information.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku of Kobayashi Issa - A collection of haiku by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, in romanized Japanese and with fine translations by David Lanoue.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Poetry: Links, References and Resources - One of the most comprehensive collections of links to haiku resources on the Internet, assembled by Michael P. Garofalo.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Poetry Conference - Information on an International Haiku Poetry Conference and Festival to be held at SUNY Plattsburgh--Burlington, Vermont--and Montreal, July 29--August 2, 2008.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Poet's Hut - 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.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Reality - English home page of a site devoted to haiku in Serbia and Montenegro, though including material from worldwide sources in both Serbian (or Croatian) and English. Hosted by Saša Važić.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku, Senryu, Tanka - Links pertaining to haiku, senryu, tanka and other short forms of poetry, selected and annotated.

SEO Directory  »  Haiku Spirit: The Art of Haiku - 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.

SEO Directory  »  Haikumania - Portal to dozens of experiments with and extensions of haiku, managed by Paul T. Conneally.

SEO Directory  »  Haikutalk Links Page - Links to the haiku world in English by Gerald England. In addition to the useful links to many different haiku web sites, there is a link to his "Art of Haiku" web pages, a useful compendium of haiku and related information, commentary.

SEO Directory  »  Haikuworld - Haikuworld is dedicated to bringining poets, publishers, and readers together. Information on books, magazines, and contests. Monthly haiku kukai. Webmaster Gary Warner.

SEO Directory  »  History of Haiku - Haiku by 10 classical and modern masters, with brief biographies

SEO Directory  »  Introduction: Haikai, Hokku, Haiku - 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.

SEO Directory  »  An Introduction to Haiku - "200 Best Haiku of Japanese Literature." An interesting selection, in variable translations. Just a touch sentimental here and there.

SEO Directory  »  Issa's Haiku Home Page - A group of pages devoted to Issa and his haiku, prepared by Yoshi Mikami. In both English and Japanese.

SEO Directory  »  The Japan Pages - Articles about Japanese culture, from haiku stones and reviews of Basho translations to a pilgrimage of 108 temples, by Ad G. Blankestijn.

SEO Directory  »  Mann Library Daily Haiku - The Mann Library at Cornell University presents a haiku by an American poet each day.

SEO Directory  »  Masaoka Shiki Haiku Awards Project - 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.

SEO Directory  »  Meister Z's Haiku Index - Entrance to the world of haiku according to "Meister Z". An independent view.

SEO Directory  »  Museum of Haiku Literature - Gateway to the English-language pages of the museum in Tokyo run by the Haiku Poets Association, Japan's largest haiku organization.

SEO Directory  »  Mushimegane - Haiku, Tanka, And Contemporary Art - 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.

SEO Directory  »  Poetry in the Light - Haiku, tanka, sijo, related genres and articles by internationally known as well as promising poets of these genres.

SEO Directory  »  QuietSite - 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.

SEO Directory  »  Ray's Web: Photography and Haiku - Photography and haiku, haibun, and haiga by Ray Rasmussen.

SEO Directory  »  Russian Haiku - Also has a "Foreign" section, with material in English, French, and Japanese. Definition of Haiku.

SEO Directory  »  SciFaiku.com - Science-fiction haiku including poetry, explanations of scifaiku, and a mailing list.

SEO Directory  »  Sensei Salon - Haiku Bibliography - A comprehensive bibliography of books on haiku in English, by Kristen Deming, a past president of the Haiku Society of America.

SEO Directory  »  Shiki Haikusphere - 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.

SEO Directory  »  Sumauma Haiku - Brazilian haiku site, largely in Portuguese, but with substantial information about haiku and representation in English of many International haiku poets.

SEO Directory  »  Tanka-Sijo Cupboard - A comparative selection of poems in both the traditional Japanese and Korean forms, respectively. Markets, links, definitions, supplied by Neca Stoller.

SEO Directory  »  Touring of Haiku Monuments in Matsuyama - "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 visited by Saigyo, boasts a large number of such "haiku stones". Presented with full texts in both Japanese and English translations, along with photographs and background information, by Ehime University.

SEO Directory  »  WHC ... World Kigo Database - This weblog represents an attempt to build a comprehensive database of words and phrases that might serve as season words in global haiku. It includes sections for Alaska, Hawai'i, Romania, and Kenya, among other places, and the ongoing discussion of many participants. Managed by Gabi Greve.

SEO Directory  »  The Wordshop - Homepage leading to discussions of sijo, haiku, renga and other forms, Asian and otherwise. Hosted by Larry Gross.