Links

Other sites I run

• American Haiku Archives

• Captain Haiku (on Letterboxd)

• Captain Haiku (on TikTok)

• Captain Haiku (on X/Twitter)

• Déjà-ku Diary (WordPress blog)

• Haiku Northwest

• Hilltop Haiku

• Michael Dylan Welch Photo Gallery (on Google Photos)

• NaHaiWriMo (National Haiku Writing Month, in February)

• NaHaiWriMo (on Twitter; use #nahaiwrimo hashtag)

• Rengay

• Seabeck Haiku Getaway (annual retreat I direct)

• SoulFood Poetry Night (monthly poetry reading series I curate)

• Tanka Society of America (I founded this organization)

• Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem (see old site)

• Western Washington Poets Network

Other sites I ran

• Captain Haiku Blog (inactive)

• Captain Haiku’s Secret Hideout (archived from 1997; see old site)

• Haiku Garden Poetry Readings (inactive)

• Haiku North America blog (discontinued)

• Michael Dylan Welch Photography (on Wix; site deleted in January 2021 when Adobe discontinued Flash)

Facebook sites I run
(or help run)

• Michael Dylan Welch

• American Haiku Archives

• Graceguts

• Haiku North America

• Haiku Northwest

• Haiku Society of America

• NaHaiWriMo (daily haiku writing prompts)

• RASP (Redmond Association of Spokenword)

• Redmond Poet Laureate (2013–2015)

• Rengay

• Seabeck Haiku Getaway (annual retreat I direct)

• SoulFood Poetry Night

• Tanka Society of America

• Western Washington Poets Network

Selected links
on haiku and tanka

• Another Kind of Poetry

• Bibliography of Classical Japanese Literature in Translation (to 1600)

• British Haiku Society

• Global Haiku Traditions (Randy Brooks)

• Haikai Home (William J. Higginson)

• Haiku and Related Journals (portal site for places to publish your haiku)

• Haiku (on Wikipedia)

• Haiku Canada

• Haiku Comics

• Haiku in English (on Wikipedia)

• Haiku International Association (I gave the keynote address for their 2013 conference in Tokyo)

• Haiku North America (biennial conference I codirect—coming up in 2025 in San Francisco)

• Haikupedia

• Haiku Society of America (I’ve been a longtime first vice president)

• The Haiku Foundation (I’m a founding associate)

• Internet Sacred Text Archive

• Japanese Aesthetics

• Japanese Woodblock Print Search

• Japanology

• Japan Past & Present

• Japan Search (specifying haiku)

• Modern Haiku

• Old Pond Comics (learn haiku in a fun way)

• Open Library (haiku books online)

• Saijiki (season word almanac for haiku composition)

• Tanka (on Wikipedia)

• Tanka in English (on Wikipedia)

• Tanka Society of America (I founded this organization)

• TempsLibres (Free Times)

• Triveni Haikai India

• Waka (on Wikipedia)

• Waka Poetry

• World Kigo Database

• Yuki Teikei Haiku Society

See also Further Reading and Writing Tools

Other organizations
I’m associated with

• Eastside Writers Association (former vice president; now defunct)

• Eastside Writes (board member; I also curated its quarterly poetry/fiction readings; now defunct; see YouTube video channel)

• E. E. Cummings Society (contributing editor to its journal Spring)     +

• First Frost (twice-a-year haiku journal I coedit)

• Redmond Association of Spokenword (president; I also curate RASP’s monthly reading series)

• Seattle Japanese Garden (poetry consultant, haiku judge)

• Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival (volunteer, advisor, instructor, haiku judge)

• Washington Poets Association (board member for ten years; now defunct; see Facebook page)

See also Venues, Clients, and Partners.

Selected publications and publishers that have published my writing     +   +   +

• 3Lights (England; online)

• Acorn

• Akitsu Quarterly

• Alba (online)

• American Haibun & Haiga (now Contemporary Haibun Online)

• American Tanka

• Another Chicago Magazine (online)

• Ant Ant Ant Ant Ant

• Asahi Haikuist Network (Japan)

• Asahi Shimbun (Japan)

• Asahi Weekly (Japan)

• Atlantic Monthly (online)

• Atlas Poetica

• The Aurorean

• Autumn Moon Haiku (online)

• Bacopa Literary Review

• The Bamboo Hut (online)

• Bear Creek Haiku

• Bellingham Herald

• Blithe Spirit (England)

• Bloo Outlier Journal (England)

• Boema (Romania)

• Bogg

• Bones (online)

• Books on Asia

• Bottle Rockets

• California Quarterly

• California State Library Foundation Bulletin

• Canadian Writer’s Journal (Canada)

• Cantos

• Carpe Diem Haiku Kai (online)

• Cascade (Washington Poets Association)   +

• Cattails (online)

• Chrysanthemum (Germany)

• Cinquesettecinque (Italy)

• Cirrus (Canada)

• City Arts Magazine

• Clover: A Literary Rag

• The Collidescope

• Colorado Boulevard (Poetry Corner)

• Contemporary Haibun Online (formerly American Haibun & Haiga)

• Convorbiri Literare (Romania)

• Creatrix (Australia)

• Cyberwit (India)

• Dadakuku (online)

• The Daily Astorian

• Daily Haiku (Canada)

• The Daily Yomiuri (Japan)

• Diogen (Bosnia and Herzegovina; online)

• Dogwood Blossoms (online)

• Drifting Sands Haibun (online)

• Eastern Structures

• Education.com (online)

• Enchanted Garden (Romania; online)

• Extract(s) (online)

• Eye to the Telescope (online)

• Failed Haiku (online)

• The Far Field (online)

• Feasta (Ireland)

• Fireflies’ Light (online)

• Floating Bridge Review

• The Footy Almanac (Australia)

• Frameless Sky

• Frogpond (Haiku Society of America)

• Frozen Butterfly (England; online)

• Gadfly

• Geppo

• Ginyu (Japan)

• Global Literature in Libraries Initiative (online)

• Guest

• Gusts (Tanka Canada) (Canada)

• The Haibun Journal (Ireland)

• Haibun Today (online)

• HaigaOnline (online) [see Wayback Machine for archive]

• Haijin’s Magazine / A Revista do Haijin (Brazil; online)

• Haiku Canada Review (Canada)

• Haiku: Revistă de Interferenţe Culturale Româno-Japoneze (Romania)

• Haikuniverse (online)

• Haikupedia (online)

• Haiku Reality (Serbia; online)

• Hedgerow (online)

• Heron’s Nest (print and online)

• Hojas en la acera: Gaceta trimestral de haiku / Leaves on the Sidewalk: Quarterly Haiku Gazette (Spain)

• Hummingbird

• A Hundred Gourds (Australia; online)

• Incense Dreams (online)

• Involution

• Issa’s Untidy Hut (online)

• Jacar Press

• Jersey Devil Press

• The Journal of the North American Japanese Garden Association

• Juxta

• Kokako (New Zealand)

• Kontinuum (online)

• Kyoto Journal (Japan)

• Lá (Ireland)

• Lights (Pleasure Boat Studio) (online)

• Lilliput Review

• Lynx (print and online editions)

• Mainichi (Japan)

• The Mamba (Africa Haiku Network)

• Mann Library’s Daily Haiku

• Mariposa

• Matrix (Canada)

• Mayfly

• Merriam-Webster (online)

• Modern English Tanka

• Modern Haiku

• Moongarlic (online)

• Mosaic

• Netslova (Russia)

• NHK World Radio (Japan)

• Noon (Japan)

• North American Post

• Olympia Poetry Network Newsletter

• One Art       +

• Open Window (online book of my haiku and photographs)

• Origami       +

• Ouachita Life

• Password (online)

• Plum Tree Tavern

• Poetix

• The Poetry Department (blog)

• Poetry Kanto (Japan)

• Poetry Pea (podcast)

• Poetry Super Highway

• Pointed Circle

• Presence (England)

• Prune Juice

• Pulse (online)

• Quill and Parchment

• Raining Rengay

• Rattle

• Raven Chronicles

• Red Lights

• Resonance (American Harp Society/Seattle newsletter)

• A Revista do Haijin / Haijin’s Magazine (Brazil; online)

• Rhyvers (India; online)

• Ribbons (Tanka Society of America)

• Right Hand Pointing (online)

• Roadrunner (online)

• Sabotage Reviews (online)

• Sand Hill Review       +

• San Francisco Bay Guardian

• Scarlet Dragonfly Journal (online)

• Schuylkill Valley Journal (print and online editions)

• Scifaikuest (print and online editions)

• Seashores (Ireland)

• Season by Season (podcast)

• Seattle Times

• Seattle Weekly (print and Voracious blog online)

• Shahrgon (Canada, in Persian; online)

• Shamrock (Ireland; online)

• Simply Haiku (online)

• Skylark (England)

• Skyward (inflight magazine of Japan Airlines)

• Snapshots (England)

• The Solitary Daisy (Canada; online)

• Solitary Plover

• Sommergras (Germany)

• Sonic Boom

• Spring: The Journal of the E. E. Cummings Society (I’m a contributing editor)

• Stardust

• Steel Jackdaw

• StringTown

• Take 5ive (online)

• Taller Igitur (Mexico, online; link may not work)

• Tandem

• Tangled Hair (England)

• Texas Parks & Wildlife

• Tinywords (online)

• Tsuri-dōrō (online)

• Trash Panda

• Tundra

• Ukiah Daily Journal

• Under the Basho (online)

• University of Virginia Press

• Upstate Dim Sum

• Verse-Virtual (online)

• The View from Here (England)

• Vines (online)

• Virginia Quarterly Review (online)

• Wales Haiku Journal (Wales; online)

• WBEZ Radio, Chicago

• Whiptail (online)

• Wild Plum

• The Wise Owl (India; online)

• Winnipeg Free Press (Canada)

• Wordworks (Canada)

• World Haiku Review (England; online)

• The Writer

• The Writer’s Chronicle (AWP)     +

• Writer’s Digest (online)     +

• Yay Words (online)

• The Zen Space (Canada; online)     +     +

• Zoomoozophone Review (online)

Selected additional publications that have published my writing (no links)

• Acolada

• Akisame (European Haiku Society) (Italy)

• The Alameda Accent

• Albatross (Romania)

• Aldus Magazine     +

• Alsop Review

• Amelia

• Anglo Files (Denmark)

• The Art of Tanka

• Bare Bones (England)

• BC Harps (Canada)

• Befuddled Press

• Belmont Enquirer-Bulletin

• Black Bough

• Boston Haiku Society News

• Brevities

• Brisbane Independent

• Brussels Sprout

• Burlingame Boutique & Villager

• Caesura

• The Chimaera

• Cicada

• Colma Independent

• Daly City Independent

• Descant (Canada)

• Dragonfly

• Edge City Review

• Ёrshik (Russia)

• Euro Poésie (France)

• Evergreen (Japan)

• Fan

• Five Lines Down

• Foster City Progress

• Four and Twenty

• Fresh Hot Bread

• Gendai Tanka (Japan)

• Grey Matter

• Haidan (Japan)

• Haijinx (used to be online)

• Haiku Canada Newsletter (Canada)

• Haiku Forum (Japan)

• Haiku Headlines

• Haiku Ireland (Ireland)

• Haikukai (Japan)

• Haiku Light (Canada)

• Haiku Novine (Croatia)

• Haiku Quarterly

• Haiku Society of America Newsletter

• Haiku Splash

• Haiku Svyat (Bulgaria)

• Hermitage (Romania)

• Heron

• Hillsborough Boutique & Villager

• HPNC Newsletter

• HQ (England)

• HSA Newsletter

• HWUP

• IDG World Update

• India-USA Punjabi English Magazine

• Inkstone (Canada)

• International Tanka (Japan)

• Issaquah Press

• Italian Haiku Association Newsletter (Italy)

• Jizai (Japan)

• Kadō (Romania)

• Knight Letter

• Kō (Japan)

• Kumquat Meringue

• The Light Box (Peninsula Camera Club)

• Line Zero +

• Logos Haiku Circle (Japan)

• Mainichi Daily News (Japan)

• Makoto (European Haiku Society)

• Midwest Poetry Review

• Mie Times (Japan) +

• Millbrae and San Bruno Sun

• Mirrors

• Modern Haibun and Tanka Prose

• Moonset

• Multiverses (was online)

• Muttering Thunder

• Network Literature (Russia)

• New Cicada

• New England Letters

• Northwest Literary Forum

• Notes from the Gean (Scotland; used to be online)

• Nourish

• Online Whispers & [Shouts]

• Parnassus

• PenChant

• Persimmon

• Persimmon Tree

• The Plover/Chidori (Japan)

• Pocket Lint (Canada)

• Poetry Nippon (Japan)

• Poet’s Market

• Point Judith Light

• Pontoon

• Portlandia Review of Books

• Radio Japan (Japan)

• Raw Nervz Haiku (Canada)

• Red Pagoda

• Redwood City Tribune

• Redwood Shores Enquirer-Bulletin

• Reeds: Contemporary Haiga

• Ripples (Haiku Society of America Newsletter)

• Rivet

• Rose Mallow Haiku (Japan)

• Sammamish Review

• San Carlos Enquirer-Bulletin

• San Mateo Weekly

• Scanlines

• Score

• Season’s Greetings Letter

• Shinzounokodou

• Shortcovers (used to be online)

• South by Southeast

• South San Francisco Independent

• Steyer Wire

• Still (England)

• The Stuttering Priest

• Tanka Journal (Japan)

• Tanka Splendor

• Tidepool (Canada)

• Triplopia (used to be online)

• TSA Newsletter (Tanka Society of America)

• Vrabac/Sparrow (Croatia)

• Wah (India)

• Western World Haiku Society Newsletter

• WinterSpin (Australia)

• Wisteria

• Woodnotes

• Yellow Moon

If you know of links for any of the preceding publications, please let me know.