Writing and Enjoying Haiku
by Jane Reichhold · Kodansha International
Reichhold's hands-on guide to composing haiku in English: finding material in ordinary observation, working with season words and the cut, revising drafts, and shaping finished poems. Includes exercises, many sample haiku, and guidance on submitting to journals.
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Independent journal published since 1969, printing three issues a year of haiku, senryu, haibun, essays and book reviews. Readers can study the editors' selections, browse archived issues online, and learn current submission standards for English-language haiku.
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Online journal of haiku and other very short poems, publishing daily since 2001 and holding a deep searchable archive. Regular reading of its selections gives a concrete sense of what contemporary English-language editors accept and why.
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Nonprofit archive offering the Digital Library of out-of-print haiku books, the Haiku Registry of poets, per-poem commentary features, and education materials. Useful for tracing how the form developed in English and for finding primary texts free.