EDITORIAL
 CORNER

Editorial:
The World
in a Grain of Sand

Editor's Choice:
Haiku

Editor's Choice:
Short Verse

WHC CONTESTS

WHF2002
R.H. Blyth Award

 JUDGE'S SELECTIONS & COMMENTS

Judges:
Ion Codrescu (RO)
James W. Hackett (US)
Michael McClintock (US)
Visnja McMaster (CR)
Jane Reichhold (US)
George Swede (CA)
Serge Tomé (BE)
Cor van den Heuvel (US)
Nobuyuki Yuasa (JP)

POPULAR VOTE & COMMENTS

WHCtournament

Doris Kasson
Report: First Match Results

JUDGES SELECTIONS
WITH COMMENTS
Haiku: Kigo: Spring Dream Theme: Snowmelt;
Free Form (any)
Renku (12 stanza)

MATCH 3 - PLAYOFF
D. W. Bender
Report: Third Match Results

RaysWeb/
WHChaikumultimedia
HAIKU SPRING KUKAI
Selections & Comments
Ray Rasmussen, Director (CA)
Judge: Christopher Herold (US)
Guest Selector: D.W. Bender (US)

WHF2000
10 Winners From
The World Haiku Festival 2000 Kukai at Royal Parks
London - August 2000

also see

WHC WORLDWIDE GINKO
Selections & Comments

WHC ESSAY

KARA-KUCHI RONSO ESSAYS 
spicy haiku polemics

An Ecumenical
View of Haiku
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

WHCessay

Among the Leaves:
looking at haiku
an anthologicial series

Less - is still less
Florence Vilen (SW)

Shakespeare haiku:
a brief discussion of the haiku spirit in English literature
Daniel Gallimore (UK)

Haiku & the Lyric Poem
What is Poetry?
(presented at WHF2000)
Tobias Hill (UK)

WHCrenku Seminar 2000 Writing a Shisan Renku
Session 3 of the WHC Renku Seminar 2000)
Paul MacNeil (US)

WHF-WHC  SHIKI CELEBRATION ESSAYS & ONLIST TRANSLATION PROJECT

Shiki’s Fireworks Haiku
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

In the Aftermath of Shiki's Fireworks
John E. Carley, Ed. (UK)

ARCHIVES
Past Issues

May 2001
VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

ABOUT THE COVER

World Haiku Review

 Calligraphy: ikusa
"fight" or "war"
by Susumu Takiguchi
The artist's style is a development that combines abstract pictorial images inherent in the meaning of the characters with the calligraphic script

ILLUSTRATIONS

Magazine design & layout,
WHC logos & illustrations for feature articles by
D.W. Bender (US)

Webpage Design for WHChaikumultimedia &
 WHChaikumultimedia, Portfolios & Galleries by
Ray Rasmussen (CA)

Illustrations for
R.H. Blyth Award pages Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

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

hanabi

VOLUME 2: ISSUE 2
JULY 2002

Poetry Selections

WHChaibun

HAIBUN SELECTIONS
Paul Conneally, Editor (UK)

Gary Warner (US)
Michael McClintock (US)
Barbara Shepherd (UK)
Gene Williamson (US)
elehna de sousa (CA)
Kirsty Karkow (US)
Carmen Sterba (JP)
chibi (US)
D.W. Bender (US)

also see

WHC Haibun Contest Winners
and
Guest Speakers Corner

WHChaikuforum
workshop
 
 HAIKU SELECTIONS
Susumu Takiguchi, Editor (UK)

1. HAIKU: General Category

2. HAIKU: Themed Category

3. HAIKU: Kigo Category

WHCjapan

 HAIKU SELECTIONS
Yasuomi Koganei, Editor (JP)

HAIKU by Hidetoshi Nagami

WHCspanish

 HAIKU SELECTIONS
Carlos Fleitas, Editor (UR)

HAIKU: Page 1

HAIKU: Page 2

HAIKU: Page 3

WHCbeginners

With Mentors:
an'ya petrovich (US), Editor
sue mill (AU)
alison williams (UK)
& Assistant Mentor:
Elbert Pruitt (US)

Session 3
HAIKU SELECTIONS & COMMENTS

WHCvanguard

HAIKU SELECTIONS
Susumu Takiguchi, Editor (UK)

1. REAL HAIKU

 2. VIETNAM RUMINATIONS
Part 5: a continuing series by
Robert Wilson (US/PH)

WHChaikumultimedia

 PORTFOLIO
A Selection of Photo-Haiku by
Carol Raisfeld (US)

GALLERY SELECTIONS

WHCe-Cards
Debi Bender, Editor (US)

WHCschools

HIBISCUS PETALS
Ferris Gilli, Instructor/Editor (US)
 

LESSONS

1. Clutter & Credibility
Trust between Reader and Poet

2. When Juxtaposition Fails:
The Space Between

3. Thank-you Tribute Haiku
TO FERRIS FROM WHC MEMBERS

WHChaikujunior

POETRY & ART SELECTIONS
DeVar Dahl, Editor (CA)

HAIKU & MULTIMEDIA

REGIONAL WORKSHOP
Maerdy Junior School, Wales

REGIONAL WORKSHOP
Cwmbach Junior School Wales

HAIKU BY AKITA CHILDREN

WHCrenku 

RENKU SELECTIONS
Paul MacNeil, Editor (US)

Another Life
Spring Nijuin Renku

Shallow Summer
Summer Shisan Renku

one persimmon
Autumn Kasen Renku

april snow flurries
Spring Nijûin Renku

also see

WHCsenryu

  SENRYU SELECTIONS
Susumu Takiguchi, Editor (UK)

SENRYU

WHCpoetrybridge

POETRY SELECTIONS
John E. Carley, Editor (UK)
Denis Garrison, Co-Moderator (US)
Joe Warner, Co-Moderator (UK)

POETRY

WHCshortverses

POETRY SELECTIONS
Debi Bender, Editor (UK)

Tanka

A Tanka Special Selection:
Riding the Dragon
by Richard Stevenson (CA)

Cinquain Selections

a Special Feature:
Cinquain Workshop Exercise #2
& Valentine Cinquain
Denis Garrison (US)

Sijo

Symbiotic Verse

Haiku Series & Sequences

SPECIAL
FEATURES

A HAIKU PATH

Haiku Enlightenment
Part 2 of a 6 part series
Gabriel Rosenstock (IR)

REGULAR
FEATURES

New Feature
SHADES OF INK
Translating the Japanese Poem

a NEW David G. Lanoue series on Issa translations

Treasures from Issa
Random Clicks
Dr. David Lanoue (US)

The Beat of Different Drummers
Dr. Mark Jewel (JP)

This is Your Haiku Life:
Cor van den Heuvel

Requiem for a Poet
a tribute to
Keiko Imaoka

Dialogue with a Poet
Michael McClintock (US)

Guest Speaker's Corner

on haibun
Dr. Bruce Ross (US)

A World Map:
Developments in Haiku

the plight of the haiku public
Marlene Mountain (US)

Haiku in Education

Haiku in RomanianElementary Schools Part II
Sonia C. Coman (RO)

TREETOPS
Ferris Gilli (US)

Tasting Vintage Haiku
Ernest Berry (NZ)

Haiku Treasure Trove
Craig McLanahan (NZ)

WHC Member Spotlight

Nightingale
Joe Warner, Editor (UK)

 Haikuhut.com
Short Stuff
Michael Rehling (US) &
Deborah Russell, Editors (US)

The World Tempos Journal
An Interactive Photo-haiku Journal
Mitty Abe, Editor (JP)

Raysweb/WHC
Haiku Spring Kukai
Ray Rasmussen, Editor (CA)
Christopher Herold, Judge (US)

HAIKU NEWS

PRELUDE SERIES
WHF2002
Japan
September 2002

PRELUDE 1:
BASHO JOURNEY OKU-NO-HOSOMICHI
From Fukagawa to Kisagata
FUKAGAWA
Thursday 12 September  2002

PRELUDE 2:
BASHO JOURNEY
Ishii Rogetsu
(1873-1928)
 Instalment #1
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

PRELUDE 3:
BASHO JOURNEY
Ishii Rogetsu
(1873-1928)
 Instalment #2
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

PRELUDE 4:
BASHO JOURNEY
Main Speakers

PRELUDE 5:
Oku no Hosomichi
Kukai

PRELUDE 6:
SPEAKERS:
James W. Hackett

PRELUDE 7:
BASHO JOURNEY
Ishii Rogetsu
(1873-1928)
 Instalment #3

PRELUDE 8:
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)
JAMES W. HACKETT Haiku Evening
in Kamakura
WITH DOROTHY BRITTON & SUSUMU TAKIGUCHI

PRELUDE 9:
The Daily Yomiuri Embarks on a Long Journey of
Discussing
Oku-no-Hosomichi

PRELUDE 10:
SPEAKERS:
Dorothy Britton
(Lady Bouchier)

PRELUDE 11
HAIKU by Akita Children

PRELUDE 12
SIGHTSEEING:
Kyoto

also see

The R. H. Blyth Annual
Haiku Award

Go-Shichi-Go
Haiku in English
Daily Yomiuri
a Column by Susumu Takiguchi

Florida Earth Day Ginko
Wekiva Springs Park
with PHOTO GALLERY
Laurene Post, Coordinator (US)

WHC Worldwide Ginko
Selections & Comments
 Paul Conneally, Editor (UK)
With Selectors:
Carmen Sterba (JP/US)
an'ya (UK)
Serge Tomé (BE)

WHC  Worldwide
Earth Day Ginko
Haiku Collection
Paul Conneally, Editor (US)

WHCgoodcauses
Report

Tandem Haiku Day
Oxford, England
 Daniel Gallimore (UK)

Haiku Canada Weekend 2002
Report with Photos
Dina Cox (CA)

HPNC 2002
San Francisco International Competition
Haiku, Senryu, Tanka & Rengay
Dan Brady, Coordinator (US)

Haiku International Association (HIA)
Launches New Website
4th Annual Haiku Contest

BOOKNEWS

Haiku

Wild Flowers, New Leaves–
a Collection of World Haiku
Selected by Susumu Takiguchi

Parade of Life:
Poems  inspired by Japanese Prints
Selected by Paul Conneally & Alan Summers (UK)

If Someone Asks…
Masaoka Shiki’s Life and Haiku
Translations by The Shiki-Kinen Museum English Volunteers
reviewed by
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

The Botanical Basho
Edited with translations by Gerry Loose
reviewed by
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

Haiku and Haibun

Listening to the Rain:
an anthology of Christchurch haiku and haibun
edited by Cyril Childs and Joanna Preston
reviewed by
Marjorie Buettner (US)

Shortverse: Tanka

In Thickets of Memory
A Selection of Tanka in Japanese and English
poems by Fumi Saito selected and translated by James Kirkup and Makoto Tamaki
reviewed by
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)

A Frayed Red Thread
by Linda Jeannette Ward
reviewed by
Marjorie Buettner (US)

Games: Haiku

Haiku Cards
by Visnja McMaster
reviewed by
Susumu Takiguchi (UK)