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California State Library - http://www.lib.state.ca.us/html/welcome.html
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. |
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Mann Library Daily Haiku - http://haiku.mannlib.cornell.edu
The Mann Library at Cornell University presents a haiku by an American poet each day. |
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Aha! Poetry - http://www.ahapoetry.com/
The main entry page to Jane Reichhold's world of haiku, tanka, and linked poetry. |
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Haiku for People! - http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
A primer on haiku. |
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Ray's Web: Photography and Haiku - http://raysweb.net/
Photography and haiku, haibun, and haiga by Ray Rasmussen. |
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Mushimegane - Haiku, Tanka, And Contemporary Art - http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/enginx.shtml
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. |
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Russian Haiku - http://www.haiku.ru/
Also has a "Foreign" section, with material in English, French, and Japanese. Definition of Haiku. |
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Haiku Poet's Hut - http://www.haikupoetshut.com
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. |
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Museum of Haiku Literature - http://www2.famille.ne.jp/~haiku/index-e.html
Gateway to the English-language pages of the museum in Tokyo run by the Haiku Poets Association, Japan's largest haiku organization. |
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Haikuworld - http://www.haikuworld.org/
Haikuworld is dedicated to bringining poets, publishers, and readers together. Information on books, magazines, and contests. Monthly haiku kukai. Webmaster Gary Warner. |
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Free Times / Temps Libres - http://www.tempslibres.org
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. |
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Haiku of Kobayashi Issa - http://haikuguy.com/issa/
A collection of haiku by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, in romanized Japanese and with fine translations by David Lanoue. |
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History of Haiku - http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/ehisto/ehisinx.shtml
Haiku by 10 classical and modern masters, with brief biographies |
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SciFaiku.com - http://www.scifaiku.com/
Science-fiction haiku including poetry, explanations of scifaiku, and a mailing list. |
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Dhugal J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe - http://www.cyberoz.net/city/dhugal/haikuhome.html
Offers many pages of information on haiku. |
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http://users.rcn.com/jhudak.interport//index.html - http://users.rcn.com/jhudak.interport//index.html
An innovative site with haiku by several hands and music, brought to you by John Hudak. Back online after some hiatus. |
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WHC ... World Kigo Database - http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
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. |
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Introduction: Haikai, Hokku, Haiku - http://www.columbia.edu/itc/eacp/asiasite/topics/index.html?topic=Haiku+subtopic=Intro
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. |
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Dogwood Blossoms - http://www.askgar.com/haiku/hkuframe.html
Legacy web site of the online haiku magazine edited by Gary Warner, last updated in 1998. Some good haiku reading. |
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Poetry in the Light - http://members.tripod.com/~Startag/Contents.html
Haiku, tanka, sijo, related genres and articles by internationally known as well as promising poets of these genres. |
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Contemporary Haiku - http://webdelsol.com/Perihelion/acmarticle.htm
"Contemporary Haiku: Origins and New Directions", an essay by A.C. Missias. Clear summary of the situation in English. |
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In the Moonlight a Worm - http://www.haiku.insouthsea.co.uk
A detailed guide for the teaching of haiku to primary and secondary pupils, plus a self teaching guide. |
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Fay Aoyagi's homepage - http://www.bluewillowhaiku.com/
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. |
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The Five Hundred Essential Japanese Season Words - http://renku.home.att.net/500ESWd.html
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. |
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Haiku Spirit: The Art of Haiku - http://dublinwriters.org/haiku/index.html
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. |
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Sumauma Haiku - http://www.sumauma.net/
Brazilian haiku site, largely in Portuguese, but with substantial information about haiku and representation in English of many International haiku poets. |
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Shiki Haikusphere - http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/
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. |
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http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/japan/haiku.html - http://asnic.utexas.edu/asnic/countries/japan/haiku.html
Summary of a talk by Prof. Eleanor Kerkham, of the University of Maryland. |
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QuietSite - http://www.iyume.com/
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. |
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Haiku Haven - http://www.haikuhaven.com
Haiku, tanka and related forms of writing. Edited by Victoria Valentine. |
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Haiku For Beginners - http://www.arttech.ab.ca/pbrown/haiku/lesson1.html
A lesson in Haiku appreciation and writing, conducted by Paul Brown. |
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The Art of Haiku - http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/hk/
Articles, reviews, mailing list and links. |
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Haiku North America - http://www.haikunorthamerica.com/
A biennial gathering of haiku poets. Includes background, details of the current year's event, and past conference information. |
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Basho Memorial Museum - http://www.ict.ne.jp/~basho-bp/e-00.html
Sponsors an annual English-language haiku contest with an August deadline, in connection with its Basho Festival in October each year. |
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First Australian Haiku Anthology - http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/haiku.html
A haiku anthology built entirely online, and featuring quick loading, single-haiku presentation for contemplation, and brief biographical notes on authors. |
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Haikutalk Links Page - http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/hk/hklinks.htm
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. |
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Millikin University Haiku - http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/
Hosts haiku projects, research and publications. Includes student collections, information about courses, and details of past competitions. |
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Haiku Dreaming Australia - http://haikudreamingaustralia.info/
A site devoted to haiku and senryu firmly set in Australian landscape and culture. Managed by John Bird. |
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Butterfly Dreams - http://fhp.2hweb.net/scrapbook_bd/index.html
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. |
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The Haiku Habit - http://www.haikuhabit.com
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. |
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Touring of Haiku Monuments in Matsuyama - http://www.lib.ehime-u.ac.jp/KUHI/ENG/index.html
"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. |
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Bilingual Haiku - http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~alpha8/page03_01/main.html
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. |
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The Wordshop - http://members.tripod.com/~theWORDshop/index.htm
Homepage leading to discussions of sijo, haiku, renga and other forms, Asian and otherwise. Hosted by Larry Gross. |
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Haiku Hike (World Walks) - http://haikuhikes.blogspot.com/
A series of hikes through the London Olympic Development Site will take place with participants encouraged to share their feelings haiku-like or otherwise. |
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Haiku Poetry: Links, References and Resources - http://www.gardendigest.com/haiku1.htm
One of the most comprehensive collections of links to haiku resources on the Internet, assembled by Michael P. Garofalo. |
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Haiku Beach - http://beehive.thisisnorthdevon.co.uk/haikubeach
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. |
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Tanka-Sijo Cupboard - http://members.tripod.com/neca/Tanka-Sijo.htm
A comparative selection of poems in both the traditional Japanese and Korean forms, respectively. Markets, links, definitions, supplied by Neca Stoller. |
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Haiku, Senryu, Tanka - http://poetry.about.com/arts/books/poetry/msubhiku.htm
Links pertaining to haiku, senryu, tanka and other short forms of poetry, selected and annotated. |
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The Japan Pages - http://www.xs4all.nl/~daikoku/
Articles about Japanese culture, from haiku stones and reviews of Basho translations to a pilgrimage of 108 temples, by Ad G. Blankestijn. |
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Haikumania - http://www.haikumaniaren.homestead.com/
Portal to dozens of experiments with and extensions of haiku, managed by Paul T. Conneally. |