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Essays, Reports, Speeches, Haibun, and More
An Invitation to Rengay (introduction to True Colour)
A Report on Haiku Chicago (1995)
Arriving Geese: Learning from Shugyō Takaha
A Sampling of Cultural Haiku
A Spade’s a Spade: Plagiarism and Déjà-ku
Beat Haiku and My Discussion with Jack Foley
Beauty in Haiku
Between Storms
Buson or Shiki: The True Authorship of the “Two Autumns” Poem
Defining “Publication” on the Internet
Desert Heat: A Haiku Revision
Dripping Rain: Learning Haiku from Shunryu Suzuki
On Essays and Physics
Finding the Sky
Finding Our Way
First Snow on Daffodils: Writing Reality
Forms in English Haiku
Fresh Seeing on the International Appalachian Trail
Friends in Haiku
From Chord to Melody: Defining Tanka in English
Going Nowhere: Learning Haiku from Pico Iyer
Go-Shichi-Go: How Japanese and English Syllables Differ
Getting Started with Haiku
Haibun: Definitions of Light
Haiku as History: The Ultimate Short Story
Haiku Poets of Northern California 1995 Rengay Contest
Haiku Stances
Haiku . . . Under the Bedsheets: Juxtaposition and Seasonal Reference
Hearing the Owl
The Heart of Haiku
How Do You Write Haiku?
In the Eye of the Beholder: Haiku Interpretation
Introduction to Fig Newtons: Senryu to Go
Japan (Billy Collins; poem)
Japanese Renku Group Visits San Francisco
King’s Books
Knowing the Poet
Laughing with Karumi
Little Catastrophes: The Topological Structure of Humor and Haiku
Mercy Street
Metaphor in Haiku
Michael Dylan Welch’s Frisbee
Missing the Moon: Haikuless Haibun
The Mouse’s Tale
Off the Beaten Track: A Year in Haiku
On a First-Name Basis: Deepening Haiku with its “Fourth Line”
One-Part Haiku
On Writing Haiku
Preface to The Edge of the Woods (Paul O. Williams)
Punctuation in Haiku
Remembering Kylan Jones-Huffman
Rengay: The Art of Partnering (Carolyn Hall)
Rengay: A Status Report
Rengay Clarified
Ringing the Bell: Learning Haiku from Mary Ruefle
Seeing Into the Heart: Vulnerability in Haiku
Skywriting: Learning Haiku from Annie Dillard
Striking Gold: The American Haiku Archive
A Survey of Haibun Definitions: Introduction to Wedge of Light
Tanka Elbow Room
The Anthologist and Bogus Haiku
The Discipline of Haiku
The Haiku Sensibilities of E. E. Cummings
The Practical Poet: Be Your Own Editor
The Practical Poet: Creating a Haiku Checklist
The Seed of Wonder: An Antidote to Haiku Inflation
The Territory of Haiku
Thirteen Ways of Reading Haiku
Three Hokku by E. E. Cummings
Traditional and Modern Haiku: A Vibrant Dichotomy
2013 Haiku Poets of Northern California Haiku Contest
2020 Nicholas A. Virgilio Haiku and Senryu Competition
Up with Season Words
Watch Your Its
Welcome to Haiku North America 2009
What Makes a Great Chapbook?
When Butterflies Come
Whose Kid Is That?
Winter Squall
Why Do Haiku? (Steve; poem)
Young Leaves (renku)
Zen and the Art of Direct Seeing
Reviews