Yuki Teikei Haiku Society:
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GEPPO magazine.
Annual anthologies.
The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Retreat at Asilomar: 2007. 2008 (a haibun). 2010. |
Toward an Aesthetic for English-Language Haiku by Lee Gurga.
Notes on Pescadero (2004) Haiku Weekend Workshop (including exercises) with Christopher Herold. |
Index of Poetry. Highlights for Poetry. Books of Poetry Form. How to Write Poetry. |
Essays on how to write specific forms:
Haibun. Haiga. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Renku. Tanka. Tan-renga. Concrete. Fib. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Prose poem. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle. |
Las formas de la poesía en Español: El Poema Concreto. |
Haiku by Shiki. Haibun by J. Zimmerman. Haiku by J. Zimmerman. |
Latest books read. |
The haibun is prose (or a prose poem) interleaved with one or more haiku:
Make each word count in the prose text, as in a prose poem.
Compact micro-haibun limit the prose text, such as to 20-to-180 words. Most commonly only one haiku is included, placed after the prose, and serving as a climax or epiphany to what came before.
Many haibun include more than one haiku and longer text than the above range, as long as the resulting work is strong enough.
The juxtaposition of prose and haiku is important.
You could think about getting some "air" (as the skate-boarders and snow-boarders say) between the prose and the haiku.
Robert D. Wilson, editor of the e-magazine Simply Haiku, includes these features for a haibun:
J. Zimmerman Essays on haibun:
Haibun Sample
by J. Zimmerman.
Haibun Revision Checklist
by J. Zimmerman.
Is this a strong haibun, or:
The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa
edited by Robert Hass.
The past-poet laureate of the U.S.A has compiled this enthralling collection of
his own essays in which he summarizes the lives of three masters and inventors
of the haiku tradition in Japan:
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The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World by William J. Higginson. | |
Haiku World: An International Poetry Almanac by William J. Higginson, Meagan Calogeras (Editor) | |
The Japanese Haiku, by Kenneth Yasuda. | |
Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku by William J. Higginson, William S. Higginson. | |
An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Basho to Shiki
by Harold Gould Henderson (Editor).
First published in 1958, it analyzes the development of Japanese haiku under the leadership of Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki. Includes the Romanized ("Romaji") transliteration of the original Japanese, indicating the sounds of the original poem. Henderson translate mainly into 5-7-5 syllables (heavy compared to the 5-7-5 of the quick Japanese onji) and rhymes the first and last lines (sometimes feels a bit forced). |
Index of Poetry. Highlights for Poetry. Books of Poetry Form. How to Write Poetry. |
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