Haiku/Tanka/Renga Guidelines

A POEM IS LIKE THE BEST TURKISH CARPET: NEITHER CAN TOLERATE ANY EXTRA ELEMENT WHICH DOES NOT CONTRIBUTE TO ITS WHOLENESS AND VALUE – ANON.

• MA (space) and KOKORO (feeling): A (Simply Haiku) interview between Hasegawa Kai and Robert D. Wilson, interviewer: http://www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv6n3/features/Kai.html
• “Cutting” words Ya, Keri, Kana, and their punctuation in English, A dizzying, brilliant discussion: http://haikutopics.blogspot.com/2006/06/kireji.html
• HAIKAI Home: Haiku and Related Forms web site edited by William J. Higginson: http://haikai.home.att.net/main.html
• LINK AND SHIFT: A Practical Guide to Renku Composition. Higginson provides information on Japanese renku (haiku) under two key concepts, link (object, meaning, and scent) and shift (progression and diversity):http://renku.home.att.net/Link_Shift.html
• THE TRADITIONAL SEASONS OF JAPANESE POETRY. A comparison between the Gregorian and Lunar calendar months with the Japanese seasonal period names and equinox/solstice dates: http://renku.home.att.net/seasons.html
• "Haiku and Related Forms" page with immediate access to over 200 links to Web resources on haiku-related subjects compiled by William J. Higginson: http://www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Forms/Haiku_and_Related_Forms/
• THE FIVE HUNDRED ESSENTIAL JAPANESE SEASON WORDS. A comprehensive list of season words selected by Kenkichi Yamamoto and translated by Kris Young Kondo and William J. Higginson: http://renku.home.att.net/500ESWd.html
• Considerations for writing one-line haiku (Simply Haiku): http://www.simplyhaiku.com/SHv2n5/haikuclinic/haikuclinic.html
• MUSHIMEGANE: Haiku, Tanka, Literature, and Contemporary Art in Japan: http://www.big.or.jp/~loupe/links/enginx.shtml
• Tanka History and Practice: http://www.ahapoetry.com/tanka.htm