WHC Resources

Essays,  Articles
Lessons & Interviews
from World Haiku Review

Haiku

By Author

(pages in progress)

Bender, Debra Woolard

• Haiku Sketchbook

Brady, Peter

• The Other Side of the Coin:
  Haiku and the Harsh Realities

Brooks, Randy

• Teaching Haiku in Higher Education:
  An Immersion into the Living Tradition -
  The Case of Millikin University

Carley, John E.

• ZIP: Form, Freedom and Phonics
  An alternative approach to the Haiku in English

Codrescu, Ian

• Rules of Form and Freedom of Spirit in Haiku

Fleitas, Carlos

• Haiku: Lightning on a clear sky (English Version)

• Un relámpago en el cielo claro (Spanish Version)
  
  

• Musicality in Haiku Written in Spanish: a Platonism?
  
  

• The Contribution of Octavio Paz to Haiku (English Version)
  Octavio Paz: Su contribución al Haiku (Spanish Version)

Gallimore, Daniel

• ‘dew on the grass’ : translating the masters,
  sound, image, logic: an approach to haiku translation

Garrison, Denis

• Crystallines, A Contemporary Haiku Analogue
  for English Language

Gilli, Ferris

• Part I Lesson 1 & 2: Focus in Haiku / Truth in Haiku
  
  

• Part II Juxtaposition in Haiku
  
  

• Part III Kukai Lesson: Allusion in Haiku
  
  

• Nature Exercise
  
  

• Verbless Haiku: OK or No-No?
  
  

• Kigo: Seasoning Your Haiku
  

Hackett, James W.

• A letter to James W. Hackett
  from Harold Gould Henderson (l889 -1974)
  
  

• "A Personal Conclusion" 
  from "That Art Thou: A Way of Haiku"

Kevern, Alain

• The Haiku and the Poetry Almanac:
  can this formula be transposed elsewhere?

Koganei, Yasuomi

• On a Möbius Strip’s Rims
  
  

• Seeking a Four-Dimensional Haiku

Lanoue, David Gerard

Confessions of a Translator Series:

• Confessions of A Translator #1
  

• To Comment or Not to Comment #2
  

• A Little Help From My Friends #3
  

• From Translation to Creation #4

Lyles, Peggy Willis

• Regarding Poetry: the Shape of the Song

Masanet, Jesus

• Urban Haiku (English Version)
  El Haiku Urbano (Spanish Version)

McNeil, Paul

• Polemics in Haiku – a short essay
  
  

• Some Philosophy and Personal Notes on Haiku

Ross, Bruce

• Sincerity and the Future of Haiku

Takiguchi, Susumu

• An Old Argument and A New Frontier of Haiku:
  "Is Haiku Poetry?"
  
  

• Haiku: A Living Thing
  
  

• Is Western Haiku a Second Rate Art?
  
  

• Nature in Haiku - What Nature?
  
  

• The Great Cloud of Witnesses:
  R. H. Blyth writes to J. W. Hackett
  
  

• The Internet Culture and Haiku
  
  

• “Tohi-bungaku”(escapist literature) versus 
  “Shin-bungaku”(real literature)

Lessons:

• Lesson 1: Japanese Kukai Style
  
  

• Lesson 2-1: Kukai/Cold
  
  

• Lesson 2-3: Kukai/Cold con't:
  Borrowing Japanese kigo
  "Fuga-no-makoto"
  
  

• Lesson 3: advent/arrival of spring/Protocol
  How Haiku is Composed in Japan in Practice
  
  

• Lesson 4: Guidelines - How to Compose Haiku
  
  

• Lesson 4: Guidelines - How to Compose Haiku
  Selections for Commentary
  

Tasker, Brian

• Staying With the Moment - Our Western Haiku Tradition

Vilen, Florence

• Repetition - for meaning and melody
  
  

• Two Sides of the Same Petal (cliche in haiku)

Biographical & Autobiographical
by Surname of Subject

Blanche, Patrick:

Takiguchi, Susumu

• The Poetry of Patrick Blanche

Gibson, Robert

Takiguchi, Susumu

• A Haiku Poet: Robert Gibson

Herold, Christopher

Takiguchi, Susumu

• Dialogue with a Poet:
  A Conversation with Christopher Herold
  
  

• Dialogue with a Poet: Jane Reichhold

Masaoka Shiki

Lucas, Martin

• Shiki and Wordsworth: two shades of gold

Nonin, Takashi

• Shiki as a Pioneer of Baseball in Japan

Takiguchi, Susumu

• Enquiring Mind and the Collapsing Body,
  Shiki’s Poem on the Snow
  
  

• The Moment Shiki Breathed His Last,
  Shiki's Death Haiku
  
  

• Using Numbers in Haiku,
  A Study in Shiki's Haiku Poems
  
  

• Using Same Themes,
  A Study in Shiki's Poems

Vihar, Judit

• The poet with a bleeding throat (Masaoka Shiki)

Morden, Matt

Morden, Matt

• Kicking, Kikaku and Kerouac - A Welsh Haiku Path

Sugita Hisajo

Bender, Debra W. & Yachimoto, Eiko

• Echoes Over Hills: the haiku of Sugita Hisajo

Suzuki Masajo

Takiguchi, Susumu

• Fire, Beauty and Haiku
  Life, Love and Poetry of Suzuki Masajo

Yamaguchi Seishi

Takiguchi, Susumu

• Yamaguchi Seishi