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EDITORIAL
CORNER


Editorial:
Aha! Just a Moment, Please

Editor's Choice:
Haiku

Editor's Choice:
Short Verse
Cinquain



WHC ESSAYS


KARA-KUCHI RONSO ESSAYS 
spicy haiku polemics

Susumu Takiguchi (UK):
A Haiku Moment
Of Truth


SPECIAL FOCUS
ON RENKU:

Linking Poets Around the World


John E. Carley (UK):
A Brief Introduction to Renku Composition

also see

Sea Bream
WHCjapan's first zip winter kasen renku:
 

Paul MacNeil (US):
What's in a Name
& Defining Renku

Session1 & 2 of the WHC Renku Seminar 2000

with the traditional autumn shisan renku:
A Fox Circles

Ferris Gilli (US):
English Grammar: Variety in Renku
Session 8 of the WHC Renku Seminar 2000

also see

Guest Speaker's Corner:
Christopher Herold
The Alchemy of Live Renku

and

WHCschools: Traditional Japanese School of Haiku
Some Japanese
Poetic Terms Explained


TRANSLATION
so close and yet
so far...


David Lanoue (US):
Confessions of a Translator - Part 4:
From Translation to Creation

John E. Carley (UK):
Lost in Translation
extracted from: "Still Waiting for the Splash - The pursuit of form in English language haiku"

Susumu Takiguchi (UK):
Can the Spirit of Haiku be Translated ?

also see

A World Map

David McMurray
 Asahi Shimbun (JP)
Composing Haiku in English as a Foreign Language


WHCessay


Debra W. Bender (US)Japanese Haiku to American Cinquain

Florence Vilen (SW)

an anthological series
Shadows and Reflections of the Haiku Moment


Throughout 2001 - 2002, WHC celebrates Masaoka Shiki  with essays, poetry, contests and events.


WHC  SHIKI CELEBRATION ESSAYS
and
ONLINE TRANSLATION PROJECT OF MASAOKA SHIKI
HAIKU POEMS


Susumu Takiguchi (UK)
Visiting Shiki’s House
with photos


*

Susumu Takiguchi (UK)Comments on Shiki's "withering wind" haiku
kogarashi ya / arao kui-komu / suge-no-kasa

*

Online Translation
 Project #4

John E. Carley, Ed. (UK)
A Withering Wind


WHC CONTESTS


WHC - Charnwood Arts webWORKS Kukai

Charnwood Arts webWORKS Photo-Haiku Competition Results

WHC New Year 2001-2002
Double Kukai

WHC's Annual New Year Kukai
Results & Commentary

WHCshortverses
Cinquain Contest 2002


HIBISCUS PETALS

TREETOPS 
a Journal of Selections of Haiku from WHCschools Hibiscus Petals

Hibiscus Petals
Thanksgiving Kukai


ABOUT THE COVER

VOLUME 2, ISSUE 1

World Haiku Review

 
Study of Classic Sumie: an ink drawing: after Katsushika Hokusai
Title: "Bun-buku Chagama", "A Badger Showing His True Colours Out of the Guise of A Monk" (1760-1849)
by Susumu Takiguchi


ARCHIVES
Past Issues

May 2001
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

August 2001
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 2

November 2001
VOLUME 1, ISSUE
3


ILLUSTRATIONS

WHC logos and illustrations for feature articles  by
D.W. Bender (US)


Webpage Design for WHChaikumultimedia
Portfolio and WHChaikumultimedia Galleries
& the Charnwood Arts webWORKS Kukai
by
Ray Rasmussen (CA)


Illustrations for
James W. Hackett pages and the Wordsworth Papers selection in WHCshortverses are
by Susumu Takiguchi (UK)


All design, artwork and written works are copyright of artists and authors.


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Use the Intranet Search Engine, accessed from the navbars, to search by name or keyword.



 


VOLUME 2: ISSUE 1
MARCH 2002

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Poetry Selections
 


a new WHC poetry forum:
WHCpoetrybridge

 Poetry Selections
John E. Carley, Editor (UK)

March Workshop Event:
Martyn Halsall
"The Likelihood of Snow"


UNESCO World Poetry Day

 WHCpoetrybridge Appointments

WHC/PROART
Poetry Bridge Event


WHC Focus on Renku

WHCrenku

Link, Shift & Smile
Reader Renku Games:

 Follow This! Games 5 & 6

Follow This! New Games 7 & 8

Renku Selections
by Paul MacNeil, Editor (US)

Children's Laughter
Christopher Herold
& Carol O'Dell (US)

Pictures In The Album
Betty Kaplan (US)
Max Verhart (NL)
Sue Mill  (AU)

A Mason Jar
Betty Kaplan (US)
Debra Woolard Bender
(US)
Hortensia Anderson
(US)

also see

Renku Essays
and
Guest Speaker's Corner)


WHCjapan

 Haiku Selections:
by Yasuomi Koganei, Editor (JP)

HAIKU by Maki Hatanaka

also see
The First
Zip Kasen Renku:

'Sea Bream'
Led by John E. Carley (UK), Editor
& Eiko Yachimoto (JP), Sabiki


WHChaikuforum
workshop

 1. Haiku Selections
by Guest Editor
Gabriel Rosenstock (IR)

2. Editor's Haiku Selections
by Susumu Takiguchi, Editor (UK):


HAIKU: General Category

HAIKU: Themed Category

HAIKU: Kigo Category

New Fixed-form styles
Debi Bender, Editor (US):

HAIKU:  Zip & Crystalline


WHCspanish

 Haiku Selections
by Carlos Fleitas, Editor (UR)

HAIKU: Page 1
HAIKU: Page 2
HAIKU: Page 3
HAIKU: Page 4
HAIKU: Page 5
HAIKU: Page 6
TANKA: Page 7


WHCbeginners

Haiku Selections
by
mentors:
an'ya petrovich (US), Editor
sue mill (AU)
alison williams (UK)
& Assistant Mentor:
kirsty karkow (US)

HAIKU


WHCvanguard

Haiku Selections
by Susumu Takiguchi, Editor (UK)

REAL HAIKU

Vietnam Ruminations
Part 4: a continuing series by
Robert Wilson (US/PH)


WHCschools

Hibiscus Petals
Selections & Comments
by Ferris Gilli, Instructor/Editor (US)

 TREETOPS

Thanksgiving Kukai

Kukai Comments

School of Traditional Japanese Haiku
Susumu Takiguchi, Instructor/Editor (UK)

Some Japanese
Poetic Terms Explained

On Toriawase


WHChaikujunior

Poetry & Art Selections
by Devar Dahl, Editor (CA)

HAIKU
with Special Dedication
to John Crook

by Josephina & Smiljana Gerlach

MULTIMEDIA GALLERY

PRIMOS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAIKU WORKSHOP


WHChaikumultimedia
Ray Rasmussen (CA)
Editor Haiku-Art/Gallery Designer
Mitsugu Abe (JP)
Editor Photo-Haiku

new feature
PORTFOLIO GALLERY:
Ray Rasmussen, Editor (CA)
 
Sasa Vasic - Haiku
Slobodan Vitkovic -
Photography

Multimedia Selections:
by Ray Rasmussen, Editor (CA)

MULTIMEDIA/ART

 Gallery Selections:
by Mitsugu Abe, Editor (JP)

P
HOTO-HAIKU

new feature
WHCe-Cards
send haiku-art as e-Cards
from the pages

Debi Bender, Editor (US)


WHChaibun

Notes from the Editor

 Haibun Selections
by Paul Conneally, Editor (UK)

A Little Celebration
Marylouise Knight (US)

'that there thing'
Marlene Mountain (US)

18th Birthday
Victor P. Gendrano (US)

Moving Day
Ray Rasmussen (CA)

Flying Kings
Linda Robeck (US)

Rain in Hunan
Michael McClintock (US)

Winter Solstice
hortensia anderson (US)

A Private Retreat
into the World at Large

Debra Woolard Bender (US)

October 1995
Barbara Shepherd (UK)

WHC haibun Workshop
and "Double Haibun Contest" 2002
Led by Bruce Ross


WHCsenryu

  Senryu  Selections
by Susumu Takiguchi, Editor (UK)

SENRYU


WHCshortverses

Poetry Selections
by Debi Bender, Editor (UK)

Tanka
Sijo & Sijo Series
Multimedia: Sijo
Symbiotic (linked) New Forms
Ghazal & Experimental 
Cinquain

Cinquain Workshop Lesson #1

 also see

Japanese Haiku to American Cinquain

WHCshortverses
Cinquain Contest 2000


Visit the World Haiku Club Official Website for Resources on Haiku and Related Poetry, Links to the WHC Mailing Lists and more.

 



WHC
TRIBUTES


UNESCO
& WHCpoetrybridge
A Dedication
Two Special Haiku Selections from the Poetry of
Sonia C. Coman
and
James W. Hackett


A LITTLE PRINCESS
A Tribute in Poetry to Princess Aiko of Japan


SPECIAL FEATURES


New Feature
A World Map: Developments in Haiku

Composing Haiku in English as a Foreign Language
David McMurray (JP)

New Feature
A Haiku Path

Haiku Enlightenment
Part 1 of a 6 part series
Gabriel Rosenstock (IR)

and

Tasting Vintage Haiku

The Poetry of
Gabriel Rosenstock

New Feature
A Poetry Bridge

Peer Poetry
Urging haiku, senryu & related forms into the mainstream of poetry

Paul Amphlett (UK)


REGULAR
FEATURES


JAMES W HACKETT

A Personal Selection
haiku & commentary

Reflections
and
Suggestions

f
or Creating Haiku in English
James W. Hackett (US)

Requiem for a Poet

 In Memory of
Tomita Tomie (JP)

(1912-2001)
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

*
The Poetry of
Niji Fyuno
(JP)

WHC Members' Tributes
to Niji Fyuono
(JP)

*

A Poetic Tribute to
Robert Spiess (US)

Guest Speaker's Corner

The Alchemy
of Live Renku

Christopher Herold (US)

From a Haiku
Editor's Desk

(Part 2)
Reflections From Behind The Novices’ Eye-Shade
Matt Morden (UK)

This is Your Haiku Life

The Poetry of
David Walker
(UK)

A Wave of Moonlight
Woman Poets of Japan

Toward the Starry Sky:
the haiku of
Hashimoto Takako

Debra Woolard Bender (US)
with Eiko Yachimoto (JP)

and

Hashimoto Takako
Haiku Translations in English

Eiko Yachimoto
(JP)

Haiku Treasure Trove

The Poetry of
Richard Watkins
(NZ)

Haiku in Education

Haiku in Romanian Elementary Schools:
a proposal

Sonia Christina Coman (RO)

New Feature

WHC Member Spotlight

Haiga on Raysweb
Ray Rasmussen (CA)

Haiku Cycles 2002
Denis Garrison (US)

WHC-Charnwood Arts webWORKS Kukai
Kevin Ryan (UK)


HAIKU NEWS


WHC
WORLD HAIKU FESTIVAL
2002
Akita, Japan
September 2002

WHC
R.H. Blyth Award

"Go-Shichi-Go Haiku in English"
by Susumu Takiguchi
now on The Daily Yomiuri

Walking the Walk
Paul Conneally
(UK)

Special Events

The First
WHC Global Haiku Tournament

April, May, June
(open to all)

WHC haibun Workshop
and "Double Haibun Contest" 2002
Led by Bruce Ross (CA)
March

Earth Day Ginko
Coming to Florida

Laurene Post (US)
April

WHC/PRO ART #2
HAIKU - INSPIRATION - IMAGE - CREATION
Poetry Bridge
(UK)
March

WHC Appointments

WHCmultimedia
& Policy Advisement
New Appointments
Mitty Abe (JP)

Ray  Rasmussen (CA)

WHCpoetrybridge
John E. Carely (UK)
Denis Garrison (US)
Joe Warner (UK)

WHClovehaiku
Paul Mena (US)
Carol Raisfeld (US)
Serge Tome (BE)
Michelaine Boudry (CA)

WHCbeginnersjapan
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)
Mitsugu Abe (JP)


World Haiku Reports


Haiku North America 2003:
Request for Workshop Proposals
John Stevenson, HNA


BOOKNEWS


Book Reviews


The Night Abraham
Called To The Stars
 
by Robert Bly
Marjorie Buettner (US)

Senryu - Haiku Reflections of the Times
Ed. by Bitoh Sanryu
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)


Publishing News:


New International Anthology:
Haiku --
the leaves are back
on the tree

Ed. Zoe Savina (Gr)

The Haiku Club of Slovenia presents:
TEH NEKAJ BESED /// THESE FEW WORDS
Alenka Zorman (SL)

Saki Press
Winners of the
3rd Annual Virgil Hutton Haiku Memorial Award
Chapbook for 2001-2002

Lenore Hutton (US)

Waterblossoms
a new online journal for haiku & short verses

Melissa Haney (US)

HaikuHut.com
home of Short Stuff a new online journal for short form poetry
Michael Rehling (US)
Deborah Russell
(US)

AMAZE
a new journal for Cinquain Poets
Dennis Garrison (US)
& Deborah Koladji (US)


BOOKMART


A listing of books and chapbooks authored by WHC members and friends, & where and how to purchase them.