Not Previously Published
This website mostly features content that I have previously published elsewhere and then collected here. However, for various reasons, a number of contributions have appeared here without first being published elsewhere. Here’s a list of most of them. In most cases, I decided to publish this content on my website because of the unlikelihood of publishing it elsewhere. In some cases the content stems from workshops I give, or from presentations or speeches I’ve given at conferences or other events. In other cases the content missed its window of opportunity for publication, so I’ve included it here rather than leave it unavailable. Introductions to major subpages, such as Haiku and Senryu, and nearly all of the marvelously fascinating contributions to the Digressions page are also previously unpublished. See also the Postscripts page, which lists previously unpublished additions to other content.
★ = most recommended (start with these)
Essays, Reviews, Speeches, Interviews, Handouts, and Other Earthly Delights
2015 Griffin-Farlow Haiku Award Winners
A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste: Learning from Ezra Pound
★ African American Haiku: Cultural Visions
★ Animated by Hope [about my favourite word]
Bashō’s Frog: The Gift of Haiku
★ Defining Haiku by Iterations
★ E. E. Cummings—Not for Mostpeople
★ Haiku Missionary: An Annotated Response to Alan Watts’ “Haiku”
If You’re Haikuing and You Know It
★ Linking and Leaping: A Haiga Primer
★ Lorraine Ellis Harr’s ISN’Ts of Haiku
★ The Matsuyama Declaration: An Annotated Analysis
★ My Window Opens: A Personal Haiku History
Nine Words — by Tracy Koretsky
★ Nothing
Poetential: Notes on The Virgin of Bennington
★ Problems and Challenges of International Haiku
Pronunciation Guide for Names of Haiku Poets
★ Questions for Editors and Poets
Response to Alina Kwiatowska (about my poem “Bedroom in Arles”)
Sandlot Haiku and the Democracy of the Internet
Seishi Yamaguchi’s The Essence of Modern Haiku
★ Selected Examples of Déjà-ku
Seven Fundamentals: A Guide to Rengay for Editors
Smooth Sailing—2013 HNA Welcome Speech
Striking Gold: The American Haiku Archive
★ A Survey of Today’s English-Language Haiku Activity
Waves of Influence: Paul O. Williams
Welcome to Haiku North America 2001
Welcome to Haiku North America 2003
Welcome to Haiku North America 2009
★ What’s In a Name? Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders of Poetry
★ Woodnotes [descriptions of all 31 issues]
Yuki and the One Thousand Carriers
Haibun
All the Colours: Remembering Francine Porad
Carol Purington’s Quiet Optimism
On the Other Side: In Memory of Bob Major
Remembering Kylan Jones-Huffman
Stories
A story in 100 one-syllable words
Another story in 100 one-syllable words
Beware of M. C. Escher’s “Waterfall”
Spam: Yet another story in 100 one-syllable words
Poems
August Postcard Poetry Fest (30 poems, mostly not published before)
Gipsy Moth (a sonnet)
Hats Off to Hatku: Forty Tan-Renga
Ninety-Seven Poems (sixteen selections)
Psychedelic Dream (nonsense poem)
Shake the Shaker Till We All Lie Down
The American Dream (nonsense poem)
The Fourteen Days of Valentine’s
Thomas and Sarah’s Twelve Days of Christmas
Twelve Days of Christmas Pokémon