Tulip Festival Haiga Exercise

In July of 2003, Carol Raisfield, director of the World Haiku Club’s haiku multimedia group, asked me if I might supply a haiku for their group to use in making haiga, either photo-haiga or other artwork made on a computer. I was happy to supply the following poem, and also offer commentary on each of the seventy varied and colourful haiga that resulted.

                tulip festival—

                the colours of all the cars

                in the parking lot

Click the first link below to see my fourteen favourite haiga from this exercise. You can also view a slideshow of all seventy haiga below, and click the following links relating to this exercise.

• • Fourteen Favourite Tulip Festival Haiga

  • Call for Submissions

  • Guest Poet and “Objective and Subjective Assessments of Modern Haiga” Essay

  • Tulip Festival Haiga (first batch)

  • My Commentary on Tulip Festival Haiga (first batch)

  • Tulip Festival Haiga (second batch)

  • My Commentary on Tulip Festival Haiga (second batch)

  • See all seventy haiga