Resources

This is as much a way for me to keep a list of helpful articles on writing haiku as a resource for anyone else. These are pieces that have given me a great deal of insight into what a haiku is and isn’t, and how to write a good one. Resources aimed at relative beginners are marked with an asterisk.

In addition to these articles, I would greatly recommend joining the Facebook groups Buds of Haiku, My Haiku Pond Academy and Sharing Haiku Knowledge.

575haiku: Traditional Haiku as three lines and a 5-7-5 English syllables pattern by Alan Summers

all those red apples / travelling the monorail – haiku travelling in one line – one line haiku aka monostich aka monoku by Alan Summers

*An Introduction to Advanced Haiku (Scribophile) by Ashley Capes

A Study of Japanese Aesthetics in Six Parts by Robert D Wilson

*The Bare Bones School of Haiku by Jane Reichhold

Beyond the Haiku Moment by Haruo Shirane

The Definite and Indefinite Article by Alan Summers

*The Difference Between Haiku and Senryu by Michael Dylan Welch

Disjunctive Dragonfly by Richard Gilbert

*First Thoughts – A Haiku Primer by Jim Kacian

*Fragment and Phrase Theory by Jane Reichhold

The G-force of Blue: touching base with Gendai haiku by Alan Summers