Join Yuki Teikei Haiku Society

Yuki Teikei Haiku Society: Join. GEPPO magazine. Annual anthologies. 2010 Asilomar Haiku Retreat. 2008 Asilomar Haiku Retreat. 2007 Asilomar Haiku Retreat.

Haiku Pacific Rim Conferences.

Toward an Aesthetic for English-Language Haiku by Lee Gurga. 2004 Pescadero Haiku Weekend Workshop (including exercises) with Christopher Herold. Published haiku by J. Zimmerman.

Essays on how to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle.

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited by Robert Hass.

Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, its GEPPO magazine and its annual anthologies.

Please check Website of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society (the society of syllables and seasons) for information about:

• How to join the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.
• How to subscribe to the GEPPO magazine for the study of haiku.
• How to buy an annual anthology of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.

  Features of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society

  • The name is Japanese: "Yu" means "having", "Ki" means "season", "Tei" means formal", and "Kei" means "pattern". Therefore, "yuki teikei" haiku have a season word and follow the 5-7-5 pattern of syllables.
  • Founded 1974 by Mr. Kiyoshi and Mrs. Kiyoko Tokutomi, to foster writing haiku in English along traditional (Japanese) guidelines.
  • A newsletter is published bimonthly (every two months).
  • An annual meeting is held; Several other meetings occur during the year.

Books on Haiku.

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: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, Yosa Buson (1716-83), the artist, and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), the humanist. He presents their lives, their prose, and 300 of their poems.

The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World by William J. Higginson.

Related pages: Books of Poetry Form. Alphabetic index of poetry forms and related topics. How to Write Poetry.

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