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Home-study course, by Alison Chisholm, helps get you published.

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A detailed guide for the teaching of haiku to primary and secondary pupils, plus a self teaching guide.

Hosts haiku projects, research and publications. Includes student collections, information about courses, and details of past competitions.

Haiku and haibun combined with nature photography.

The main entry page to Jane Reichhold's world of haiku, tanka, and linked poetry.

"200 Best Haiku of Japanese Literature." An interesting selection, in variable translations. Just a touch sentimental here and there.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Offers many pages of information on haiku.

Legacy web site of the online haiku magazine edited by Gary Warner, last updated in 1998. Some good haiku reading.

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.

A haiku anthology built entirely online, and featuring quick loading, single-haiku presentation for contemplation, and brief biographical notes on authors.

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.

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.

Summary of a talk by Prof. Eleanor Kerkham, of the University of Maryland.

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.

A lesson in Haiku appreciation and writing, conducted by Paul Brown.

Haiku, tanka and related forms of writing. Edited by Victoria Valentine.

A series of hikes through the London Olympic Development Site will take place with participants encouraged to share their feelings haiku-like or otherwise.

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 collection of essays on the haiku form and its history, by Kametaro Yagi, from his book. Some of the information is dated.

A biennial gathering of haiku poets. Includes background, details of the current year's event, and past conference information.

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.

One of the most comprehensive collections of links to haiku resources on the Internet, assembled by Michael P. Garofalo.

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.

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.

A primer on haiku.

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.

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

Links pertaining to haiku, senryu, tanka and other short forms of poetry, selected and annotated.

Portal to dozens of experiments with and extensions of haiku, managed by Paul T. Conneally.

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.

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

Haiku by 10 classical and modern masters, with brief biographies

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.

The Mann Library at Cornell University presents a haiku by an American poet each day.

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.

Entrance to the world of haiku according to "Meister Z". An independent view.

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

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.

Haiku, tanka, sijo, related genres and articles by internationally known as well as promising poets of these genres.

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.

Also has a "Foreign" section, with material in English, French, and Japanese. Definition of Haiku.

Science-fiction haiku including poetry, explanations of scifaiku, and a mailing list.

A siteful of "digital haiga" created in collaboration with many haiku poets from Japan and worldwide, by Kuniharu Shimizu.

A comprehensive bibliography of books on haiku in English, by Kristen Deming, a past president of the Haiku Society of America.

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.

Brazilian haiku site, largely in Portuguese, but with substantial information about haiku and representation in English of many International haiku poets.

A comparative selection of poems in both the traditional Japanese and Korean forms, respectively. Markets, links, definitions, supplied by Neca Stoller.

Articles, reviews, mailing list and links.

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.

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.

Homepage leading to discussions of sijo, haiku, renga and other forms, Asian and otherwise. Hosted by Larry Gross.

"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, boasts a large number of such "haiku stones", here presented with full texts in both Japanese and somewhat kinky English translations, along with photographs and background information, by Ehime University.

The 2006 Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival web site features a fulsome group of top haiku selected from over 1000 entries in their annual contest.

This blog 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.

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 fine Guide for Teaching Haiku.

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.