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In the Moonlight a Worm - A detailed guide for the teaching of haiku to primary and secondary pupils, plus a self teaching guide.
Millikin University Haiku - Hosts haiku projects, research and publications. Includes student collections, information about courses, and details of past competitions.
Aha! Poetry - The main entry page to Jane Reichhold's world of haiku, tanka, and linked poetry.
The Art of Haiku - Articles, reviews, mailing list and links.
Basho Memorial Museum - Sponsors an annual English-language haiku contest with an August deadline, in connection with its Basho Festival in October each year.
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.
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.
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.
Chaba - An innovative site with haiku by several hands and music, brought to you by John Hudak. Back online after some hiatus.
Contemporary Haiku - "Contemporary Haiku: Origins and New Directions", an essay by A.C. Missias. Clear summary of the situation in English.
Dhugal J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe - Offers many pages of information on haiku.
Dogwood Blossoms - Legacy web site of the online haiku magazine edited by Gary Warner, last updated in 1998. Some good haiku reading.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Haiku - Summary of a talk by Prof. Eleanor Kerkham, of the University of Maryland.
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.
Haiku Dreaming Australia - A site devoted to haiku and senryu firmly set in Australian landscape and culture. Managed by John Bird.
Haiku For Beginners - A lesson in Haiku appreciation and writing, conducted by Paul Brown.
Haiku for People! - A primer on haiku.
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.
Haiku Haven - Haiku, tanka and related forms of writing. Edited by Victoria Valentine.
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.
Haiku North America - A biennial gathering of haiku poets. Includes background, details of the current year's event, and past conference information.
Haiku of Kobayashi Issa - A collection of haiku by the Japanese poet Kobayashi Issa, in romanized Japanese and with fine translations by David Lanoue.
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.
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.
Haiku, Senryu, Tanka - Links pertaining to haiku, senryu, tanka and other short forms of poetry, selected and annotated.
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.
Haikumania - Portal to dozens of experiments with and extensions of haiku, managed by Paul T. Conneally.
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.
Haikuworld - Haikuworld is dedicated to bringining poets, publishers, and readers together. Information on books, magazines, and contests. Monthly haiku kukai. Webmaster Gary Warner.
History of Haiku - Haiku by 10 classical and modern masters, with brief biographies
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.
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.
Mann Library Daily Haiku - The Mann Library at Cornell University presents a haiku by an American poet each day.
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.
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.
Poetry in the Light - Haiku, tanka, sijo, related genres and articles by internationally known as well as promising poets of these genres.
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.
Ray's Web: Photography and Haiku - Photography and haiku, haibun, and haiga by Ray Rasmussen.
Russian Haiku - Also has a "Foreign" section, with material in English, French, and Japanese. Definition of Haiku.
SciFaiku.com - Science-fiction haiku including poetry, explanations of scifaiku, and a mailing list.
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.
Sumauma Haiku - Brazilian haiku site, largely in Portuguese, but with substantial information about haiku and representation in English of many International haiku poets.
Tanka-Sijo Cupboard - A comparative selection of poems in both the traditional Japanese and Korean forms, respectively. Markets, links, definitions, supplied by Neca Stoller.
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.
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.
The Wordshop - Homepage leading to discussions of sijo, haiku, renga and other forms, Asian and otherwise. Hosted by Larry Gross.

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