Haiku Resources

[Howard Miller]

Although it is perhaps the bane of internet poetry boards (along with its American cousin the cinquain), given its tendency to sneak in through every available crack and crevice and its resistence to all known forms of pesticide, the haiku remains a popular poetic form, especially among relative beginners. It does, at least, have the advantage when properly written of leading beginning writers to focus sharply on imagery and concise language.

Here are a series of links to a number of informational resources about the haiku:
http://www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm

http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/#whatishaiku

http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ehisinx.shtml

http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-1/worldmap.shtml


http://www.iyume.com/metrics/haikumet.html


http://www.lsi.usp.br/usp/rod/poet/hai_rime.html

http://www.hsa-haiku.org/


Last and least, here is a link (the only one I've been able to locate so far) to the haiku's even more irritating little brother, the miku:
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Bistro/8066/miku/


Howard

[Harry Rutherford]

And you should read some haiku from the classic tradition. You could do worse than start with

The Classic Tradition of Haiku

in Dover Thrift Editions, edited by Faubion Bowers

ISBN 0486292746

which has the great advantage of only being $1.50 (or GBP 1.25), and has a selection of haiku in Japanese with English translation.

[Kaem]

Howard, it could be far worse: we could have people posting diamantes. Fortunately we are spared thanks to our lack of HTML centering ability.