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Jane & the Haiku Master
The venerable Jane Reichhold is about to publish a full set of Basho's haiku in English, which she has translated herself (after teaching herself Japanese, of course!). Read all about the why, how and who in this fascinating interview published on the Simply Haiku site. See the book on Amazon here.
Haiku Movies on You-Tube
Check out this list provided on the World Haiku Association website and have some fun. Most of the readers are Japanese, but Jack Kerouac and Jim Kacian both feature. Note that it is heaps faster if you've got Broadband (I haven't)!
Nick Virgilio online
Rutgers University has undertaken to put some of Nick's work, including haiku and writings about him on line, thanks to a donation of papers from the poet's estate. See the project (the unpublished haiku are still coming) here. It may not be a well-maintained site as several of the haiku links are inactive. However, there are poems from him, including one of his most antholgised haiku:
lily:
out of the water ...
out of itself
Reviews
Our own Patricia Prime is a hard-working reviewer, who writes for haiku and tanka publications around the world. In the latest issue of on-line journal Stylus she has written all five reviews - Atlas Poetica, Eucalpyt, plus single-author publications. Read the reviews here (in the left-hand menu go down to Reviews and click on the title).
Out & About with Alan
Alan Summers is a hard-working haiku poet and teacher in the UK. If you haven't looked at his blog yet, I urge you to do so. It's full of news, ideas and the amazing ways in which he works to spread the haiku message. His Haiku Detective idea is something that could be picked up and used in other places too.
Haiku Times
This blog (weblog) is the output of a haiku group in Boulder, Colorado, who make ginko and kukai - complete with photography and other artwork - and post the results for sharing. Choose an issue from the right-hand menu.
Winter Haiku
Thirteen winter poems by Basho have been selected by "Bellezza" and posted here.
Record Your Tanka
Modern English Tanka Press (US) is offering poets a chance to record their own work and post it. Editor Dennis Garrison, who believes tanka are also performance poems, has provided plenty of information for people wanting to make audio-visual recordings but who haven't tried before. If you're interested go here.
