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Selected Links to Haiku and Haiku-Related Websites

Updated December 2006

Haiku and Allied Sites

Japanese Haiku Topical Dictionary

An English translation of a Japanese saijiki, or season word dictionary.  It features full descriptions of a number of important Japanese kigo, or season words.

AHA Poetry Gateway to a wonderful world of haiku and other poetry. Conducted by Jane and Werner Reichhold.
Children's Haiku Garden Children's haiku and drawings.  Conducted by Ryo Suzuki
Poetry in the Light Features haiku, sequences, linked haiku, articles, essays, and reviews. Provides a link to the on line journal Haiku Light. Both website and journal are conducted by Elizabeth St Jacques.
Shiki's Salon A vnerable Japanese website in English, recently revived.
Haiku & Co. A collection of haiku in many languages with French translations.  Conducted by André Duhaime.

Haiku World

A personal view of the world of haiku.

Haiku Spirit A site for English and French haiku sharing.  Conducted by Gille Fabre.
Haiku of Kobayashi Issa A compendium of appreciation and translations of Issa's haiku. Conducted by David Lanoe.
see haiku here A digital haiga gallery.  Art and conducted by Kuniharu Shimizu.
marlene mountain "the chaoscoswommos of all one-line haiku sites". Her own work.
Haiku Poets Hut A variety of haiku and related entries. Conducted by soji.
Dhugal J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe Haiku insights by an Australian paticipating in the Japanese haiku world.
Modern Japanese Haiku From Cage of Fireflies, English translations by Lucien Stryk of  modern, not contemporary, Japanese haiku. 
A Hidden Pond An anthology of 20th century Japanese haiku edited by Koko Kato and translated by Koko Kato and David Burleigh. The web version is not the same as the wonderful printed book with the same title.
Waning Moon Press A fine resource site for haiku teachers and students.
Simply Haiku

A quarterly journal,with offerings in the English genres of haiku, senryu, haibun, tanka, renku and haiga.

Haiga Online

A site for haiga, with elaborate graphic and audio effects.

Haiku Societies

Boston Haiku Society
British Haiku Society
Haiku Canada
Haiku Society of America

Haiku Poets of Northern California; click here for their 2005 contest information!

New Zealand Poetry Society

North Carolina Haiku Society
World Haiku Club

Haiku Web Journals and Publishers' Sites

LYNX A Journal for Linking Poets An online journal dealing with renku and other linked verse, often with articles and book reviews and other content of great interest to haiku poets.
Brooks Books Publisher of highly regarded haiku collections and Mayfly.  Handsome online collections of haiku and photos by several poets.
The Heron's Nest A well-regarded continuing online journal, edited by Christopher Herold.  Print copies are also available.
still Features a zen approach to haiku and other short verse.  Conducted by ai li.

Literature, Art, Cultural and Miscellaneous Sites

Asian Art Museum of San Francisco A premiere museum of Asian Art.  Has Buson paintings in its collection.
International Association of Japanese Gardens The name says it.
Michi Online "Journal of Japanese Cultural Arts", with a number of insightful articles concerning Japanese arts, including applied and fine arts, and martial arts.
Mangajin E-zine Online presence of a discontinued Japanese comic book.
NichiBei Bussan Dept. Store Online Source of Japanese goods and craft materials.
jlit Japanese literature resources.
The Thinker Image Base Large collection of art images, including an extensive collectin of Japanese woodblock prints.
Ukiyo-e, Pictures of the Floating World Online resources for Japanese woodblock prints and images.
The Ruth & Sherman Lee Institute for Japanese Art A new small museum in Hanford, California featuring the paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts of Japan.

Figures of Speech Tables

Congeries, anyone?  Or litotes; your serve.  But strangely weak on metaphor.