Haiku Links
The American Haiku Archives implies no endorsement by linking to other sites, but we hope that you find the following selected links helpful. If you have suggestions of sites to add for haiku-related organizations, journals, translations, or other sites of exceptional educational value, please contact Michael Dylan Welch.
Haiku Archive Collections
American Haiku Archives
California State Library, Sacramento, California
http://www.americanhaikuarchives.org/ (2,313 haiku items)
Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays
Brown University Library, Providence, Rhode Island
http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/harris/index.php (1292 haiku items)
The Poetry Collection
University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
http://ublib.buffalo.edu/pl/ (690 haiku items)
Columbia University Libraries, New York
L. A. Davidson & William J. Higginson Papers & Haiku Archive forthcoming
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/ (1145 haiku items)
Global Haiku Traditions Decatur Haiku Collection
Millikin University, Decatur, Illinois
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/research.html (download bibliography from this page)
Museum of Haiku Literature in Tokyo
http://www2.famille.ne.jp/~haiku/index-e.html (see the index of English haiku items)
The Nick Virgilio Project at Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey
http://nickvirgilio.rutgers.edu/
Raymond Roseliep Collection at Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa
http://depts.loras.edu/library/ (search for Roseliep Collection - 2081 items)
(If you know of additional significant collections of American haiku or haiku poet archives, please let us know and we will add the access link to this list.)
California State Library
California State Library
http://www.library.ca.gov/
California State Library Staff Contacts
http://www.library.ca.gov/about/cslstf.html
California State Library Online Catalog
Search the main catalog of the California State Library
California State Library Photographs
http://www.library.ca.gov/about/directionsindex.html#Sac
California State Library Wikipedia Description
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Library
California Library Association
http://www.cla-net.org/
California State Library Foundation
http://www.cslfdn.org/
Haiku and Tanka Organizations
(national organizations, plus regional organizations near Sacramento)
Haiku Society of America
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/
Haiku Canada
http://www.haikucanada.org/
Yuki Teikei Haiku Society
http://www.youngleaves.org/
British Haiku Society
http://www.haikusoc.ndo.co.uk/
Haiku Poets of Northern California
http://www.haiku-poets-northern-california.com/
Central Valley Haiku Club
http://www.valleyhaiku.org
Haiku International Association
http://www.haiku-hia.com/index_en.html
Tanka Society of America
http://www.tankasocietyofamerica.com/
Tanka Canada
http://members.shaw.ca/uzawa/TankaCanada.htm
Anglo-Japanese Tanka Society
http://www.geocities.jp/nichieitanka/
Japan Tanka Poets Society
http://www.kajin.org/english.html
Haiku Journals
Frogpond
http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond.htm
Heron's Nest
http://www.theheronsnest.com/
Modern Haiku
http://www.modernhaiku.org/
Simply Haiku
http://www.simplyhaiku.com
Japanese Haiku Poets
Basho
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsuo_Bash%C5%8D
Buson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosa_Buson
Issa
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobayashi_Issa
Issa translations by
David G. Lanoue
http://haikuguy.com/issa/
Shiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masaoka_Shiki
Chiyo-ni
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiyo-ni
Portal Sites, Haiku Publishers, and Educational Links
Open Directory Portal Site for Haiku and Related Poetry
http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Forms/Haiku_and_Related_Forms/
Millikin University Haiku
http://www.millikin.edu/haiku/
Brooks Books Haiku
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/
Red Moon Press
http://www.redmoonpress.com/
Forms in English Haiku (essay on why haiku in English need not be 5-7-5)
http://asgp.org/agd-poems/keiko-essay.html
Becoming a Haiku Poet (introductory essay on haiku)
http://www.haikuworld.org/begin/mdwelch.apr2003.html
An Introduction to Haiku (includes biographies and poems of Basho, Buson, and Issa)
http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Island/5022/index.html
