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links to almost all my websites (yes, there are dozens of them)

painter/poet Michele Harvey's website

Be sure to visit Michele Harvey's newly updated website. Not only is she an accomplished poet, but a well-known landscape painter, with work currently showing in NYC and Provincetown, Mass. The subtlety and grace of these mystic images reveal another level of her finely tuned poetic mind.

demarcation
between the lawn and fields
a fence line
dividing the tame from wild
my gold wedding band

Haiga Friends

• HaikuShelf ~ Angelika Wienert's (Germany) bilingual photo/haiku blog. Beautiful writing by this widely published author.
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• Watercolor, Pen, Photography & More: A gallery of art, photography and poetry by Jerry Dreesen and his friends ~ introspective hand painted haiga that convey the strong feelings of an experienced haijin. I'm looking forward to future posts.
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• KANKODORI ~ Olga Hooper (pen name "Origa") is a sumi-e haiga artist and an accomplished haijin, writing in both English and Russian. Links to her work lead to a terrific display of haiga at Simply Haiku. Follow all the links for real pleasure.
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• Everyday Issa ~ Haiga on Issa by haijin Sakuo. English and Japanese translations. On everyday I recieve English haiku, then transelate it to Japanese. To make sure my image, I paint it to a picture that is called haiga=haiku picture.
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• The Haiga Pages ~ lots of good browsing from this list of online haiga artists.

found along the way

• Carol Raisfeld: Haiku Buds ~ haiku, photography, haiga, art-haiku, photo-haiku, poetry, prose. See especially her haiga gallery - lucious photo work, thoughtful ku.
  
  
• PhotoHaiku.net ~ first rate haiga site with many valuable links.
  
  
• Haiku Hut ~ good link source, especially for haiga sites. Short Stuff (now defunct), an on-line journal of short form poetry - archives maintained at this site. Michael Rehling, editor. Michael Rehling's links for further study include:
  
  The Haiku Society of America Haiku Definition
  http://www.hsa-haiku.org/HSA_Definitions_2004.html
  
  Two essays by Lee Gurga, editor of Modern Haiku
  http://www.baymoon.com/~ariadne/form/haiku/haiku.aesthetics.gurga.htm
  
  http://www.haikuworld.org/begin/lgurga.jun2003.html
  
  Essay from the World Haiku Review by Cor Van Den Heuvel
  http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-3/worldmap2.shtml
  
  A World Haiku Club Essay by Susumu Takaguchi, Chairman
  www.worldhaikureview.org/2-1/whcessay_translatedst.shtmlAn Article by A.C. Missias, editor of Acorn, on haiku formwww.webdelsol.com/Perihelion/acmarticle.htm
  
  Essay by Lee Gurga, editor of Modern Haiku
  http://www.haikai.info/articles/gurga.aesthetics.html
  
  A fine article on Meditation and Haiku by Ray Rasmussen
  http://tinyurl.com/uqpk This essay, by Sandra Fuhringer, a past president of Haiku Canada, explains the problems in defining 'form' in haiku...
  Following it is an essay on Content in Haiku...hometown.aol.ca/sfuhringer/page7.htmlEssays on haiku by Jane Reichhold and others, on this very comprehensive site -
  www.ahapoetry.com/haiku.htm
  
  Is It Haiku? Letter by Jane Reichhold
  http://www.haikupoetshut.com/isithaiku.html
  
  Suggestions for creating haiku poetry in English, a WHC essay by James, W. Hackett
  http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-1/jwh_reflectsuggest.shtml
  A longer article on Haiku form in English by George Swede -
  http://pages.infinit.net/haiku/histnortham.htm
  
  An article 'Haiku is What?' by L. A. Davidson
  http://www.cyberoz.net/city/dhugal/davidson.html
  
  Editorial from the World Haiku Review on the 'aha moment' and Zen in haiku
  http://www.worldhaikureview.org/2-1/editorial.shtml
  
  Here is one article that I particularly enjoyed by Alexey Andreyev:haiku - home1.pacific.net.sg/~loudon/alexey_def.htmWant to Renga? Want to Renku? 'The' site for the Renga/Renku studentRenga/Renku - renku.home.att.net/
  
  
• Gabi Greve's notes on Ginkoo (haiku walk)
  My Japanese haiku teacher in Kamakura always said: "Do NOT take pictures, do NOT sketch, but empty your mind and look deeply and not judgemental into anything you see on our walk. Imprint it in your heart and mind and then let a haiku flow out of it easily." How haiku study groups work in Japan
  
• Haiku Dictionary ~ from University of Virginia's Japanese Text Initiative

found on the web

2001 Waka for Japan 2001

Poetry has its seed in the human heart and blossoms forth in innumerable leaves of words ... it is poetry which, with only a part of its power, moves heaven and earth, pacifies unseen gods and demons, reconciles men and women and calms the hearts of savage warriors.
Ki no Tsurayuki, Preface to the Kokinshû, Ninth Century

Tsurayuki's words, written over a thousand years ago, are the first description by a Japanese of waka. The word is made up of two parts: wa meaning 'Japanese' and ka meaning 'poem' or 'song'. It was probably coined at about the time Tsurayuki was writing as a way to distinguish the poetry written by the Japanese in their own language from that they read and wrote in Chinese - the source of much of Japan's poetic inspiration.

new links

Washed ashore in today's websurf:

• Haiku, Haibun, Haiga by Ray Rassmussen ~ Do not miss this site! Artistically, it is one of the best personal websites I've run across. Fresh, energetic writing from a master haijin. I especially recommend the haibun section (Rasmusen is webmaster of Contemporary Haibun Online). The links and didactic sections are worth the trip alone. The linked photo gallery is pure gravy. Enough raving, just go...
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• a procession of ripples: an anthology of selected haiku ~ Laryalee Fraser has put together a collection of fine English language haiku from such notable haijin as: an'ya, Robert Wilson, Jane Reichhold, Mike Rehling, Lorin Ford, Carol Raisfeld ... The accompanying photography suggests the haiga tradition. Pure pleasure here. There is even a page that formats printouts for you!

Gabi Greve's Reference Library

Over a hundred key scholarly articles on haiku and related forms are preserved at Yahoo Groups Haiku Essays, collected by Gabi Greve. Many valuable links, lists.

kiku kigo and more...

Gabi Greve has sent me a link to her kigo discussion on kiku. There are many rich links and references there.

To collect the dew on the chrysanthemum petals and drink it would bring you long life (chooju).… As an auspicious symbol of long life (kisshoo monyoo) the chrysanthemum was used for many decoration, on embroydered kimono and as sweets (wagashi). The Chinese boy Kikujidoo drank the dew of the chrysanthemum and lived to gain immortality without ageing, or rather to the ripe age of 800 years. This legend was later incorporated into a famous Noh drama.

white chrysanthemum, shiragiku
yellow chrysanthemum, kigiku
fine weather to enjoy chrysanthemums, kikubiyori
crowded chrysanthemums, rangiku
home full of chrysanthemums, kiku no yado
time for the chrysanthemums, kikudoki
dew on chrysanthemums, kiku no tsuyu
Long Life Chrysanthemum, Manjuugiku
"live to see 1000 generations," Chiyomigusa

Following a thread, I wound up at the Yahoo Group WorldKigoLibrary, an invaluable reading resource, also curated by Gabi. You don't need to be a member to access the messages. Especially noted:

A Conversation with the Poet Hoshinaga Fumio from Modern Haiku, 35:3, Autumn 2004, pp. 27-45.

.......twenty billion light-years of perjury...your blood type is "B"

Blood type B is rare in Japan; Type A is happier, but Type B carries a sense of melancholy.

blood type A
why am I unhappy
winter sparrow
..........--Billie Dee

See also Hoshinaga Fumio:Selected Haiku from Kumaso-Ha from the same issue, pp. 46-55

..........the spring tree--
..........I climb until I can
..........see the war

Arigatougozaimasu Gabi sensei! (((

beauty in the mundane details

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Check out these images at Gabi Greve's HappyHaiku blog:
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Patterns of the Postal Station of Doi, Mimasaka

misc. haiku links

Aozora - Haiku from South-East Europe
http://aozora.tempslibres.org/

The Art of Haiku
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/hk/

Asahi Haikuist Network (editor: David Mc Murray)
http://www.asahi.com/english/haiku/index.html

Association of Haiku Poets & Museum of Haiku Literature
http://www2.famille.ne.jp/~haiku/index-e.html

Bottle rockets: a collection of short verse
http://www.geocities.com/bottlerockets_99

Cascina Macondo (Italian haiku website; editor: Pietro Tartamella)
http://haiku.cascinamacondo.com/

The Electronic Poetry Network (editor: Carlos Colón)
http://www.shreve-lib.org/images/Poem.htm

Geert Verbeke - Haiku Websites
http://users.skynet.be/geert.verbeke.bowls
http://home.alc.co.jp/db/owa/ph_diary

Haiku NewZ (newsletter; haiku page editor:Sandra Simpson)
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews

Haiku Ireland (official site of the Haiku Ireland group)
http://www.haikuireland.org/

HIA - Haiku International Association
http://www.haiku-hia.com/index_en.html

The Haiku of Kobayashi Issa
http://webusers.xula.edu/dlanoue/issa/links3.html

Haiku Research Papers (Richard Gilbert)
http://research.iyume.com/

The Haiku Society of America
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/index.htm

Haiku Spirit (Gilles Fabre's bilingual site /English and French/)
http://www.haikuspirit.org/

The Heron's Nest (editor: Christopher Herold)
http://theheronsnest.com/haiku

Kuniharu Shimizu, Japanese haiga artist - «See haiku here»
http://www.mahoroba.ne.jp/~kuni_san/haiga_gallery/

Modern Haiku (editor: Lee Gurga)
http://www.modernhaiku.org/

Museum of Haiku Literature
http://www2.famille.ne.jp/~haiku/index-e.html

Roadrunner Haiku Journal (editor: Jason Sanford Brown)
http://www.roadrunnerjournal.net/

The Shiki Internet Haiku Saloon
http://www.cc.matsuyama-u.ac.jp/~shiki/

Simply Haiku (owner/managing editor: Robert Wilson)
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/

The World Haiku Association
http://www.worldhaiku.net/

The World Haiku Club
http://www.worldhaikuclub.org/

The Shiki Monthly Kukai

Quoted from the Haiku World website:

Our kukai has two divisions each month, called the "Kigo" and "Free Format" sections. In each section a topic word or phrase will be provided, and poems are to be composed using that topic word or phrase. In the "kigo" section, the word assigned will be a "kigo" -- a "season word" -- and is intended to be used in a way representing the "season" of that kigo. So, if the kigo was "cicada", each submitted poem must include the word "cicada". Unless specifically stated, the plural form of the word is also allowed. In the free format section, the assigned word will not necessarily be a "seasonal" word, and the poet is free to either place the topic word in the season of his choice, or to write a season-neutral poem that includes the topic word.

Notifications
The "official lists" of the kukai are:
http://haiku.cc.ehime-u.ac.jp/~sumioka/htdocs/nobo-guide.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WHCworkshop/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Mothra/
haikulive@yahoogroups.com

Click any of the above for more information on that list.
Notifications from the kukai secretaries will also be posted at http://www.haikuworld.org/kukai/

RESULTS OF NOVEMBER KUKAI

new haikublog

Haijin! here's a new haiku blog of real quality:


Dana-Maria Onica from Romania
Haiku Path

It's new, so there are only a few haiku / senryu there, but well worth your visit.


..........new boots -
..........the hopscotch suddenly
..........too small
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Tanka in English ~ M. Kei

.M. Kei has announced his Bibliography of Books Containing Tanka in English, an online posting comprised of over 300 titles. An important resource for the serious waka student. This is an ongoing project, so check back periodically.
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Other M. Kei links:

M. Kei's personal poetry blog, with explanations and examples of various forms and traditions: <http://kujakupoet.blogspot.com/> worthwhile browsing here

Editor, Fire Pearls: Short Masterpieces of the Human Heart <http://www.lulu.com/firepearls>

Moderator for Kyoka Mad Poems -- humorous tanka -- <http://groups.google.com/group/kyoka> try your hand at one of these -- not as easy as it looks!

Co-Manager for Tanka Roundtable discussion group <http://groups.google.com/group/tankaroundtable> you need to join this google-group to peruse

Editor of the Chesapeake Bay Saijiki (haiku almanac) project at Worldkigo <http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/2005/03/chesapeake-bay.html> browse through the World Kigo Database while you're there

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Be sure to check out the many other resources at Tanka Central - the megasite for English language tanka.