Advanced Studies in Poetry: Global Haiku Tradition
IN203 Humanities Honors Seminar - Fall 2016
Dr. Randy Brooks

<http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/haiku/courses/globalFall2016/assignments.html>

Classroom: SH422

Informal Reader Response Writing & Haiku Writing (20 days) (10 each) • 200 total points
Kasen Renga • 20 points
Contemporary Haiku Essay (mid-term) • 100 points
Haiku Project • 100 points
Haiku Collection (paper booklet & by email) • 100 points
Haiku Collection Poetics Preface on YOUR Art of Writing Haiku • 20 points
Signature Haiku Gift Exchange • 20 points
Submission Ready (page in envelopes) • 20 points
Final Reading • 20 points

ALL ASSIGNMENTS are to be submitted by email.
Send them to: rbrooks@millikin.edu
(Use your SAVE AS function and choose "Rich Text Format" or "DOC" for digital files.)

Final Exam Haiku Reading: December 15, 2016 @ 2pm @ Kirkland 128

Haiku Society of America • http://www.hsa-haiku.org/
American Haiku Archives • http://www.americanhaikuarchives.org/
Haiku Chronicles • http://www.haikuchronicles.com/
The Haiku Foundation • http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/
Simply Haiku • http://www.simplyhaiku.com
Heron's Nest • http://www.theheronsnest.com/
Modern Haiku • http://www.modernhaiku.org/
A Hundred Gourds • http://ahundredgourds.com
World Kigo Database • http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
Haibun Today • http://haibuntoday.com/

Extra Credit Opportunities:

(1) Japan House Tea Ceremonies

Japan House is delighted to announce that tea ceremonies will now be offered to the public on the third Saturday of each month. See the schedule.

Tea ceremonies will continue to be offered every Thursday at 2:00 and 3:00. Please join us and find a moment of peace as you experience the Way of Tea.

What should I wear to a tea ceremony?

You need to wear white socks in order to walk on the tatami mats in the tea rooms. You will want to wear something in which you will be comfortable kneeling or sitting on the tatami mats. The tea ceremony hosts would prefer if you do not wear blue jeans or shorts.

If you go, enjoy the experience and write about what you understood. Also write some haiku about being in the tea ceremony & at the Japan house. Be sure to check out the older style tea room as well.

(2) Haiku & Poetry Readings

Check here for extra credit opportunities to participate or attend haiku & poetry readings.
Extra credit for competing or attending. Write an email response to the event after the fact.

(3) Haiku Cut - tba

Watch for details for a November or December haiku cut competition.

for 8/23 - haiku of the day --> Dr. Brooks

reading: Mayfly magazine sample

for 8/25 - haiku of the day --> Dr. Brooks

(1) writing response: send me an email copy of your in-class response to a favorite haiku in MAYFLY

(2) haiku writing: write your first 8-10 haiku attempts on transition times—lulls of dawn, of dusk, of relationships, of states of consciousness, summer's end, back to school).

reading: To Hear the Rain, handout 1

(3) writing response: find 3 favorite Lyles haiku—write your imagined felt responses to them (one paragraph each)

REMEMBER to cite each haiku fully (do not add capital letters or punctuation) like this:

cucumbers
soaked in vinegar—
the heat

Lyles, THTR, 48

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) your 1 Mayfly response, your 3 Lyles responses & 8-10 haiku by midnight Wednesday, August 24)

for 8/30 - haiku of the day --> Alexsenia

in class: kukai 1

reading: To Hear the Rain and Silence Between Us by Wally Swist

(4) haiku reading responses: select 3 favorite haiku by Wally Swist and briefly write your imagined, felt response to them. be ready to discuss why you like them.

(5) writing extended memory & memory haiku: choose a fourth favorite haiku by Wally Swist or Peggy Lyles that especially triggered memories from your childhood or past. This time write about a one page memoir describing a memory from your own life. THEN write 3 haiku which capture different moments or feelings from within that longer memory from your experience.

(6) haiku write: 10 new haiku on the being hot or about the end of summer perceptions.

(email your 3 short responses & one 1-page sensory memory writing & 10 new haiku by midnight Sunday, 8/28)

for 9/1 - haiku of the day -->Alex

(7) reading response 3: write your imagined felt responses to your favorite haiku from kukai 1 results (one paragraph)

(8) reading response 2: find an interesting "matched pair" of haiku (one from Wally Swist and one from Peggy Lyles or MAYFLY 60 or 61) to read side by side. write a short analysis of the writing strategies and techniquse used in these haiku. (not reader response but analysis of writing techniques such as line break, word choice, arrangement, rhythm, sounds, emphasis, break, voice, tone, attitude, etc.). one page maximum for your analysis (half a page is fine).

(9) haiku write: 10 new haiku on OPEN topic

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) your favorite kukai response, matching haiku comparison & 10 new haiku by midnight Wednesday, 8/31)

for 9/6 - haiku of the day --> Caroline

in class: kukai 2

reading: handout of haiku from Almost Unseen by George Swede (available from Moodle)

(10) writing response 1: find three favorite haiku from the George Swede handout and write a short response paragrapsh about them.

(11) writing response 1: write a longer memory response to a Swede haiku and write 3-5 new haiku from your memory response.

(12) reading response 2: find an interesting "matched pair" of haiku (one from George Swede and one from Peggy Lyles or Wally Swist) to read side by side. write a short analysis of the writing strategies and techniquse used in these haiku. (not reader response but analysis of writing techniques such as line break, word choice, arrangement, rhythm, sounds, emphasis, break, voice, tone, attitude, etc.). one page maximum for your analysis (half a page is fine).

(13) haiku write: write 2-3 labor day haiku & 10 new haiku on the nitty gritty side of college life and the angst of being human — like some of George's haiku.

(email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> 3 favorites from Swede, 1 memory response & matching haiku comparison, & 10 new haiku by midnight Sunday, 9/4)

for 9/8 - haiku of the day --> Anna

(14) reading response: write your imagined felt responses to your favorite haiku from Kukai 2 Favorites (one paragraph)

(15) reading response 1: compare the genesis of discourse for two authors (George Swede or Wally Swist and Peggy Lyles). why do they choose to write haiku about these moments? what is the source of significance worth turning into a literary artwork for them?

(17) haiku write: 10-12 new haiku OPEN TOPIC.

Due by email midnight Wednesday, September 9. (email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> 1 favorites from Kukai 2, comparison of Sher & Lyles on writing haiku, & 10-12 new haiku by midnight Wednesday, 9/7)

for 9/13 - haiku of the day --> Various Caroline Gourlay haiku

reading: Gail Sher - Guide for Beginning Haiku (availabe as PDF from Moodle)

(16) reading response: compare Gail Sher's suggestions for writing haiku with the inroduction and interview in Peggy Lyles' book (one page max)

reading: Love Haiku by Masajo Suzuki, Introduction and haiku

(18) reading responses: find three favorite haiku by Masajo and write a short response paragraph to them.

(19) reading response: find one more favorite haiku by Masajo. Let your response be a more extended imaginative memory or purely fictional piece about someone spinning off the third Masajo haiku as its starting point. End your short fictional piece with a 2-3 haiku. Two pages pages max!

(20) write 10 more haiku OPEN TOPIC.

(email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> 3 favorites from Masajo Suzuki, comparison of Sher and Lyles, 1 memory response & matching haiku comparison, & 10 new haiku by midnight Sunday, 9/11)

for 9/15 - haiku of the day --> Savannah

in class: haiku to edit 1

(21) revisit one of your extended memory writings & write new haiku or revise and edit 2-3 haiku from your story or memory. This could be based on your fictional response to Masajo's haiku!

(22) write 5-10 new haiku on contemplation or meditation or your quiet space.

Due by email midnight Wednesday, September 9. (email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> new or revised haiku from a previous haibun & 5-10 new haiku by midnight Wednesday, 9/14)

for 9/20 - haiku of the day --> Renee

kukai

(23) haiku to edit 1: based on the haiku editing workshop in class on Tuesday, send me variations and edit suggestions for at least five haiku by others from the HAIKU TO EDIT 1 handout. You may send edits of more than 5 if you want.

(24) reading: The Millikin University Haiku Anthology and write about 3 favorite haiku.

(25) write 5-10 haiku OPEN TOPIC & 2-3 haiku on family or siblings.

(email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> 3 MU Haiku favorites, 5 edit variations, and 10-13 new haiku by midnight Sunday, 9/18)

for 9/22 - TEAM MEETING DAY

(26) reading response: write your imagined felt responses to your favorite haiku from Kukai 3 Favorites (one paragraph) and write about a favorite match of 2 haiku from one of our matching contests.

IN CLASS TEAM group dialogue: compare haiku as a genre to another art or activity. THEN create an interactive event or game to engage the class in this comparison.

genre n 1: a kind of literary or artistic work 2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre] 3: a class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic form or technique. (dictionary.com)

literary genre n : a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, genre] (dictionary.com)

genre (zhän`r?), in art-history terminology, a type of painting dealing with unidealized scenes and subjects of everyday life. Although practiced in ancient art, as shown by Pompeiian frescoes, and in the Middle Ages, genre was not recognized as worthy and independent subject matter until the 16th cent. in Flanders. There it was popularized by Pieter Bruegel, the elder. It flourished in Holland in the 17th cent. in the works of Ter Borch, Brouwer, Metsu, De Hooch, Vermeer, and many others, and extended to France and England, where in the 18th and 19th cent., its major practitioners were Watteau, Chardin, Greuze, Morland, and Wilkie. In Italy genre elements were present in Carpaccio's and Caravaggio's paintings, but not until the 18th cent. did genre become the specialty of an Italian artist, Pietro Longhi. The French impressionists often painted genre subjects as did members of the American ashcan school. (Columbia encyclopedia)

see Wikipedia for an introductory discussion of genre at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_genre

Definitions of genres, especially literary genres, usually includes some expectations of form or structure, so our next question is to consider the formal elements of haiku. But genres also include certain expectation of content and aesthetic experience.

(27) Compare the genre of Haiku to [your team's comparison or activity choice].

Previous semester topics have included:

Haiku Charades - Haiku Pictionary - Haiga & Visual Arts - Haiku & Fishing - Food & Haiku - Haiclue - Jazz Haiku Impromtu-ku - Scifaiku - Star Trek Haiku - Harry Potter Haiku - Billboard Haiku - Senryu & Comic Strips

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your responses to matching pairs (one pair from each matching contest) by midnight Wednesday, 9/21)

Matching Contest 1 • Favorites

Matching Contest 2 • Favorites

TEAM presentations/games/actvities start Tuesday, September 27

for 9/27 - Team haiku comparison activities presentations

(28) write 5-10 haiku related to your comparison or upcoming activity.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your team genre comparison and your team's comparison activity plans & 5-10 related activity haiku by midnight Sunday, 9/25)

for 9/29 - Team haiku comparison activities presentations

(29) write haiku out of class activities (sodoku haiku & rap slam haiku)

(30) Read the haibun 1 kukai & write about your favorite haibun. Also register a vote for your 2nd favorite haibun and write a haiku in response to either your 1st place or 2nd place haibun.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your haiku related to various activities & haibun 1 kukai responses by midnight Wednesday, 9/28)

for 10/4

(31) send me your haiku from the Thursday 9/29 in-class activities

Favorite activities:

rap haiku slam •••
sodoku haiku
vulnerability haiku
mad lib haiku
Musical Chairs: song lyric collaborative haiku ••

My favorite was the Haiku Rap Battles. I felt like I always on my feet in terms of what I had to write, who I was writing against, and beating the time. There was no room for mistakes or blunders; if I didn't play my haikus perfectly I wouldn't have performed as well as I did. There also seemed to be a strategy to it all. Everyone wanted to go second because they thought it was easier to come up with a counter rather than trying to create smack talk. Everyone just seemed really into the activity. Ryan

I really enjoyed the Sudoku haiku activity and the Haiku battle activity. These activities both sparked haiku writing in creative and challenging ways. In Sudoku, the challenge was to create an enticing haiku while using the 3 words in the row or column. I like that you could vary the order or the words you used in the haiku as long as you used the three concepts because you could truly make it your own. The Haiku battle presented a challenge in a more intense way. Although I did not make it past the first round, I enjoyed being a bystander of the excitement during the battles. Everyone's haiku writing skills were challenged especially when they ahd to think of a rebuttal to their opponent's haiku. It was honestly comical and unexpected to hear come of the haiku that were shared. I thoroughly enjoyed this activity. Alyssa

Of the group presentations my favorite was the Musical Chairs Haiku. I liked the inspiration for the first line coming from a song. It was interesting to me that the people who knew where the lyrics came from took their inspiration from the song as a whole, while those who did not recognize the lyrics only had those few words to work with. I also liked that once we had 3 lines we switched to editing. Being able to rearrange the lines or change some words was just as creatively fulfilling as writing the lines to begin with. Definitely a very fun and creative activity! Savannah

(32) haiku writing: write 10-20 haiku or a haiku sequence about homecoming, going home, back home

(33) reading & responses: The Haiku Anthology, pages 1-119 including the introductions. select 3 favorites and write a paragraph response to 2 favorite haiku and a full page memory response to 1 haiku ending with 2-3 new haiku by you.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your homecoming haiku & favorites from The Haiku Anthology by midnight Sunday, 10/2)

for 10/6

(34) reading response: write your imagined felt responses to your favorite pair of haiku from matching contest 3.

(35) haiku writing: write 10-12 haiku or a haiku on matching contest 3 champions prompts: loneliness & spooky

(33) reading & responses: The Haiku Anthology, pages 122-239. select 3 favorites and write a paragraph response to 2 favorite haiku and a full page memory response to 1 haiku ending with 2-3 new haiku by you.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your responses and new haiku by midnight Wednesday, 10/5)

for 10/11

Watch the DVD & read the haiku: Haiku: The Art of the Short Poem.

Inivite some friends or classmates over to watch the DVD video in this book. Most of the haiku cited by the haiku poets are included in the anthology usually in the same order as the DVD.

(34) reader response: write response paragraphs for three favorite haiku from Haiku: The Art of the Short Poem

(35) reader response: write a short reflection about what you realized about the English-langauge haiku poetry community from the video. also briefly discuss one of the haiku poets who especially intrigued you.

(36) writing haiku: open topic 10-15 new haiku

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your responses and new haiku by midnight Sunday, 10/9)

for 10/13

reading: The Haiku Anthology, pages 240-328

(37) reader response: write response paragraphs for three favorite haiku from the The Haiku Anthology

(38) haiku writing: write 5 haiku in response to favorite haiku from The Haiku Anthology

(39) writing haiku: open topic 5-10 new haiku

Post-midterm Essay Preview - Author or Haiku topic Study:

Think about what or who you'd like to write about for your contemporary haiku reader response essay. You may want to browse the Registry of haiku poets at The Haiku Foundation <http://www.thehaikufoundation.org>. These essays are due October 25.

(40) In order to loan you books from the Decatur Haiku Collection, I need to know your intended topic or author by Wednesday at midnight, October 12. Here's guidelines for this assignment:

haiku author or topic study: A formal essay introducing a particular contemporary author, topic or technical approach to contemporary haiku readers. This is a reader-response essay, so the primary source for your essay will be your own readings and analyses of 6-10 haiku. If you are doing an author focus, discuss your author's approach to writing haiku. You may choose to write about a haiku topic instead of an author, with reader responses to 6-10 haiku related to that topic. Matching comparisons with haiku by other authors are always valued in all approaches to this essay. This can focus on one book by the author in the form of a book review essay or on a particular theme or technical approach to haiku by the author.

o focus on a point of insight or question about that author's unique contribution
o include response discussions of 6-10 haiku by the author
o optional to include at a matching comparison to a haiku by another author (or more)
o may include email or in-person interview questions to help address the haiku writer's poetics

Length? 5-10 pages single-spaced. Citations? Full citation of each source within text first time mentioned (followed by haiku citation convention of author, publication title abbreviated, page number) for subsequent mentions. Yes, do include a works-cited page.

Alexander Erickson - I would like to write about George Swede, his exposure to the mental struggles of so many people has cause his writing to be really insightful and meaningful. It has moved me and I want to read about more and share it with the class.

Alexsenia Ralat - feminist haiku

Alyssa Becker - I would like to explore different aspects of war as told through haiku. This idea was derived from Nicholas Virgilio's haiku in The Haiku Anthology.

Anna Harmon - For my essay topic, I would like to explore John Stevenson or Alan Pizzarelli more deeply as poet. I want to look at what makes each of these artists unique, and what I can take away from their work.

Caroline Lodovisi - After investigating different authors and topics related to haiku, I've decided I want to explore haiku written by Rod Willmot. I really enjoyed many of the different haiku of his featured in the Haiku Anthology we have been studying, and I would like to go more in depth with some of his work.

Douglas Sherrill - John Wills

Jacob Morgan - John Barlow

Jordan Comish - I think I'd like to write about William Higginson from the Haiku short film. I liked what he said about haiku being shared, and I want to see if he has a particular style of writing.

Kaia Ball -

Matthew Vangunten - John Stevenson

Morgan Vogels -  I would like to study Cor Van Den Heuvel because I enjoy his baseball haiku.

Owen Pulver - I would like to focus on the work of Jack Kerouac for my paper. In the video it was mentioned that beatniks like Kerouac were some of the earliest to practice haiku in North America. I would like to learn how his haiku influenced today's poets and how they related to the beatnik lifestyle.

Renee Sample - I would like to focus on the haiku of poet, Garry Gay. After reading some of his work, I feel like I can relate to his topics of writing. I want to spend more time analyzing his work to string together common tendencies in his haiku.

Ryan Sikora - Nicholas Virgilio

Savannah Riestenberg - I would like to focus on horror haiku. I have seen a few here and there in our readings and writings, but I have a feeling there are more out there. I am so intrigued by the concept of packing a horror story into so few words.

Shannon Netemeyer - I would like to focus solely on haiku about music. I really want to see how different authors convey their feelings about music and how they differ; both writing styles and opinions on the topic. I am really passionate about music and I think this topic could really uncover something special.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your responses, essay topic proposal, and new haiku by midnight Wednesday, 10/12)

for 10/18

reading: Haiku Guy, pages 1-70

(41) writing response: Practice the exercise of stop, look, and listen as described in the book. Find something, whether it be in your dorm, on campus, or somewhere where you can sit quietly without distraction and observe a particular thing, area, or person. Then, write about what you observed, describing what stuck out to you. Write 3-5 haiku from this exercise.

(42) Think about the source of your haiku. Where do your haiku originate? Why do you notice, observe, feel, reflect or focus on those things for immediate impact and lasting significance? Where do your very best haiku come from? What's your haiku muse? Your inspiration to write?

(43) writing response: Compare the advice given to Buck-Teeth of poets Mido and Kuro. What do you think of each of their advice? Which appeals to you more? Explain why.

(44) Write 5 haiku following Kuro's advice, and 5 haiku following Mido's approach.

Extra credit: bring to class 1 haiku written following Shiro's advice.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your 3 Haiku Guy responses and your STOP haiku, Mido haiku & Kuro haiku by midnight Monday, 10/17)

for 10/20

Work on your contemporary haiku essays!

(45) reading response: write your imagined felt responses to 3 favorite haiku from recent matching contests or kukai

(46) Write 10 new haiku - OPEN TOPIC!

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your new haiku by midnight Wednesday, 10/19)

for 10/25

Contemporary Haiku Reader Response Essays due midnight Monday, October 24

Length? 5-10 pages single-spaced. Citations? Full citation of each source within text first time mentioned (followed by haiku citation convention of author, publication title abbreviated, page number) for subsequent mentions. Yes, do include a works-cited page.

(47) On October 25, bring 17 copies of a handout ( a single page front and back is fine if needed) providing your audience with print copies of all haiku discussed in your essay.

(48) Write 8-10 new haiku on topics similar to your essay or in response to haiku discussed in your essay.

(49) reading response: write your imagined felt responses to 3 favorite haiku from matching contest 5 or kukai 5

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) your haiku essay, the haiku handout and new haiku to me by midnight, Sunday, October 23)

for 10/27

Contemporary Haiku Reader Response Essay presentations - day 2

(50) reading response: write your imagined felt responses to 3 favorite haiku from other student handouts

(51) Write 5-7 new haiku on topics similar to your essay or in response to haiku discussed in your essay.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your new haiku & responses by midnight Wednesday, 10/26)

for 11/1

Scheduling day (NO CLASS MEETING).

(52) Out of class KUKAI 6. You get a double vote for up to 3 haiku and one vote for as many as you like. Just send me your votes by indicating the first line of the haiku. Write responses to 5 favorites.

(53) write 5-10 Millikin Christmas haiku for our kukai competition ( you may resubmit any precious Christmas haiku you have written)

(54) reading response: read "An Introduction to Haiku" (Japanese haiku) handout on MOODLE and write about 3 of your favorite haiku

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your new Christmas haiku, kukai votues & responses & Japanese haiku responses by midnight Sunday, 10/30)

for 11/3

(55) NO CLASS MEETING. Instead, go on a GINKO! A ginko is a walk with friends or gathering at an event or a favorite group place . . . and write haiku together from that walk or place. Submit 5-10 haiku from your GINKO.

(56) reading response: Old Pond Comics about the Japanese masters at <http://www.oldpondcomics.com/masters.html> and write a reader response about 1 favorite Old Pond Comic

OR TRY TO DRAW YOUR OWN HAIKU COMIC! (extra credit) (replaces previous missed day of informal work)

(57) reading response writing: Chapter 1 of Matsuo Bashô by Ueda available ONLY on MOODLE. Select 2 favorite haiku from Bashô. Write a paragraph response to these two haiku. ALSO write about something that surprised or puzzled you about Basho's life.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your new haiku & responses by midnight Wednesday, 10/26)

for 11/8

(58) reading response writing: Chapter 2 of Matsuo Bashô by Ueda (handout) and also available on MOODLE. Select three favorite haiku from Bashô. Write a paragraph response to these three haiku.

(59) haiku writing: write 5-8 new haiku in response to favorite haiku by Basho. (some can be open topic)

(60) response writing: Find two matching English haiku to Bashô's haiku—one representing the aesthetic of sabi and one the aesthetic experience of karumi. Write a paragraph for each pair comparing these English haiku with those by Basho. One sabi haiku not by Basho compared to one sabi haiku by Basho. And one karumi haiku not by Basho compared to one karumi haiku by Basho.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your new haiku & responses by midnight Sunday, 11/6)

for 11/10

(60) response writing: Find two matching English haiku to Bashô's haiku—one representing the aesthetic of sabi and one the aesthetic experience of karumi. Write a paragraph for each pair comparing these English haiku with those by Basho. One sabi haiku not by Basho compared to one sabi haiku by Basho. And one karumi haiku not by Basho compared to one karumi haiku by Basho.

(61) haiku writing: write 5 haiku based on sabi and 5 haiku based on karumi

(62) response writing: write about 1 favorite haiku from 7 Kukai Christmas Haiku

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your new haiku & responses by midnight Wednesday, 11/9)

for 11/15

(63) response writing: write about 1 favorite match of haiku from Matching Contest 7

(64) Out of class KUKAI 8. You get a double vote for up to 3 haiku and one vote for as many as you like. Just send me your votes by indicating the first line of the haiku. Write responses to 3 favorites.

(65) reading: handout of a Bashô led kasen-no-renga and write a response to a favorite link (two adjacent links)

(66) tan-renga capping: write two-line caps for 3 favorite haiku from previous kukai 8 or matching contest 7

(67) writing haiku: 5-10 new haiku OPEN TOPIC

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your new haiku & responses by midnight Wednesday, 11/9)

for 11/17

in class mad verse kasen-renga

(68) haiku project proposal

The purpose of the haiku project is to apply haikai arts to something that means a lot to the student—usually something related to their major field of study. Bring your passion to this project and connect it to haiku (photography & haiku) (music & haiku) (history and haiku) (psychology & senryu) (a kasen renga) (baseball haiku) (a collage of haiku) (haiku web site) (anthology of love haiku) . . . have fun with this. make it your dream assignment. email me a paragraph explaining your project plan by midnight November 20.

You can see sample previous haiku projects at:

http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/haiku/studentprojects.html

Haiku projects are due midnight, Sunday, December 4
Project presentations are Tuesday, December 6

(69) write 5 OPEN TOPIC haiku and 10 haiku related to your proposed haiku project

(70) write about a favorite tan-renga from 1 Tan-renga Kukai.

(71) type up a copy of your in class Mad-verse Kasen-renga using this template: kasen WORD template

email your new haiku by Wednesday midnight, November 16.

for 11/22

Read the student kasen renga by Bri Hill and students at: http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/haiku/studentrenga/Grasshoppers&Tobacco.html

Plan a haiku writing gathering with classmates and/or friends (groups of 4-7). This can be any day with the resulting kasen-renga (36-links) due midnight, Sunday November 20.

(72) type up a copy of your Kasen-renga using this template: kasen WORD template OR write it by hand (folded with an OBI belt). You can see the class Mad-verse Kasen on Moodle.

This is a gathering for writing linked verse—if it's nice out you could gather in the park or at Rock Springs or at someone's place. Allow the spirit of the place where you gather to be a springboard for the haiku, but don't limit yourself to that place once you get into the linking. Let your links go out through time and seasons moving from person (ninjo) focused to non-person (ninjo-nashi) focus to avoid too much continuity of persons or scenes. Try to avoid more than three ninjo or ninjo-nashi links in a row. Remember, every two links make a new poem.

Using the following guide, try writing a kasen-no-renga.

(1) ninjô verses—people or emotion or human environment verses (self, other or both)
(2) ninjô-nashi—non-people or things or place or nature-only verses

Write a 36 link kasen-no-renga:

(1) hokku—sets tone, greets all, establishes season, quiets guests to join in
(2) wakiku—builds on unstated elements of the hokku and maintains season. ends in a noun
(3) daisanku—ends with open-ended image (often transitive verb ING)
(5) usually moon shows up here for the first time
(6) concludes the first page (jo) often written by the official scribe
(7)-(29) heats up the links and leaping (intensification)
(13) moon appears again
(17) blossoms usually show up here
(29) moon's third and final appearance
(30)-(36) kyû—the slow down finale (quiets back down into calmness)
(35) cherry blossoms always here
(36) end with openness and reverberation

Publication fold/design questions?
The paper is folded into 4 panels for each side (cathedral door style).
Panel 1 (outside cover) – title, date, place, copyright, (sometimes authors)
Panel 2 (first fold inside left panel) – first six links
Panel 3 (further inside far left panel) – next six links
Panel 4 (far left inside page panel) – next six links
Panel 5 (right center page panel) – next six links
Panel 6 (far right inside page panel) – next six links
Panel 7 (last fold inside right page panel) – next six links
Panel 8 (back outside cover) – acknowledgments & author links
optional obi (paper belt around the folded renga)

email me your kasen-renga due Sunday midnight, November 20. and bring at least one copy to class (properly folded and belted) for sharing in class on Tuesday, November 22

Kasen by Fall 2016 Global Haiku Students:

As We Reminisce by Savannah Riestenberg, Rebecca Coutcher, Erin O'Brien, Olivia Barnec, and Olivia Cuff

Before Thanksgiving by Morgan Vogels & Family members Jeff Vogels, Kay Vogels, and Noelle Vogels

Shifting Styles by Alex Ralat, Allison Hodges, Douglas Sherrill, and Kaia Bal

Small Town Air by Ryan Sikora, Alyssa Becker, Caroline Lodovisi, and Matt Vanguttenl

Sparrow's Song by Anna Harmon and Shannon Netemeyer

The Cycle Continues by Renee Sample, Jordan Comish, Nicole Wells, and Brittany Krohn

Half-Kasen completed by class kukai:

Onto A Blank Canvas by Global Haiku Class, Fall 2016

for 11/24 - NO CLASS (Thanksgiving Break!)

for 11/29

(73) reading response writing: Share 10-20 of your best haiku with family and friends over Thanksgiving break, and see which ones they like the best. Write about favorites selected by your family and friends. Which ones did they like best and why? email due by midnight, Sunday November 27

(74) haiku writing: write 5-10 Thanksgiving break haiku

Haiku Project Proposals

Alexander Erickson - I have been thinking about this a lot over break. I want to dissect some of my favorite songs and pick out lines that can be reworked into good haiku. I will choose 7 phrases within songs to create 7 new haiku and also share the songs they are from and why the phrases work as haiku.

Alexsenia Ralat - haiku on mental health issues.

Alyssa Becker - My project is going to be a children's book about students from all backgrounds being included in the classroom. I was thinking of having the haiku embedded throughout the text.

Anna Harmon - I would like to look at art created by Millikin students and write haiku based of them

Caroline Lodovisi - astrology & astronomy

Douglas Sherrill - haiku short story

Jacob Morgan - My final project will be about consciousness and the endless wonders and beauty of nature and the universe.

Jordan Comish - I think for my project I was going to do something like the example where he was reciting haiku to a certain song. I can mix both of my majors (Communication and Music) by using haiku based on communication themes and ideas.

Kaia Ball - I plan to one haiku each for the top 50 movies of all time (top grossing adjusted for inflation). The idea is that oftentimes we recall major plot points or iconic lines, but I am trying to either highlight visually intense scenes or point out a detail that's often looked over. Hopefully it can relate to the spirit of haiku by allowing subjects that are common knowledge in our culture undergo reexamination. Much like a class of students can observe a tree and each could write a unique haiku, countless millions can watch a movie and come away with a different impression.

Matthew Vangunten - For my haiku project I would like to take pictures from Olympic games and write haiku to go with them.

Morgan Vogels -  I would like to focus on either something that deals with being a college student athlete, or I would like to just focus on sports in general because I would like to be either a sports information director or a sports journalist upon graduation.

Owen Pulver - I would like to focus on haiku related to pets and veterinary medicine

Renee Sample - Over fall break, I visited St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis with my sorority sisters. This is our philanthropy. When we were there, we got to look at a wall called "the ABCs of Cancer", which were little things that different patients wrote for each letter. I would like to try to write a haiku for each letter using the content of the writings by the patients. St. Jude's means a lot to me, and it is my dream employer as a nurse, so I feel like this will be a great way to incorporate that love into my haiku project.

Ryan Sikora - I want to explore how listening to different genres of music affects how I write haiku. Music offers so many different tones, speeds, and themes. I know my mood and attitude towards life tends to change as I listen to different genres. I will show the song along with the genre it is associated with it, followed by some haiku.

Savannah Riestenberg - For my haiku project I think I would like to take a renga style collection of haiku and pair it with music. I would either take the in class kasen-renga and record myself reading it over improvised piano or I would use a kasen-renga written by friends or even a published example like Basho's. I would like the music to add a story to the haiku links.

Shannon Netemeyer - I want to do something with art, maybe a collage or a canvas

email me your family & friends' favorites responses and 5-10 Thanksgiving haiku by Sunday midnight, November 20

for 12/1

(75) reader responses: write about 1 match from the Thanksgiving kukai Matching Contest 8 and two favorite haiku from Kukai 9 Favorites

(76) Read School's Out by Randy Brooks and write reading responses: write a reader response to 2 favorite haiku from School's Out

(77) Write 10 more haiku related to your haiku project proposal

email me your School's Out responses and responses to favorite Thanksgiving kukai haiku by Wednesday midnight, November 20

for 12/6

haiku project presentations

(78) haiku projects due (to be shared in class). email the contents of your projects (the haiku at least and introduction & photographs or power point, etc) by Midnight Sunday, December 4 or sooner.

email me your haiku project by Sunday midnight, December 4

for 12/8 (last day of class)

Signature Gift Exchange & Sharing Haiku Collections

(79) Signature haiku gift exchange (digital photo sent to me) and haiku chapbook collections (email to me) are due Wednesday, December 7.

The signature haiku process—a haiku to give to others when they ask about haiku that can be used to teach them about haiku and to share some of your work with them. A haiku you want to be known for or known by—one that works with a lot of readers. A gift of a haiku insight . . . often presented as a gift of some sort such as a bookmark, a small haiku stone, etc.

BRING 17 copies to class! (including 1 for yourself)

Haiku Collection Booklets due: Select and organize your best haiku & senryu & haibun & renga into a collection. Make a little booklet, or print them in a binder, or write them in a blank book.

Select and organize your best haiku & senryu & haibun & renga into a small booklet or collection. Give your collection a title and a © 2016 page. (Often signature haiku are connected to the title.) Include a dedication page if you would like to.

Be sure to write an author's introduction to your collection which explains your title and expresses your approach or why these are the ones you have included in your collection (your poetics preface). Ask a reading partner to write a short introduction to your collection, maybe pointing out one or two favorites—or their observation about something unique about your haiku (the reader's introduction). The reader's introduction should help strangers appreciate and value your collection.

Bring your Haiku Collection to class Thursday, December 8!

(80) Don't forget to e-mail a copy of the contents of your collection including your introduction to Dr. Brooks by midnight, Wednesday, December 7!

(81) Don't forget to e-mail your short bio statement to Dr. Brooks by midnight, December 7. This bio statement will be used at our Global Haiku final exam Reading.

email me your collection, photo of signature haiku, short bio by Wednesday midnight, December 7

for 12/15

final exam reading --> Final Exam: Thursday, December 15 @ 2-4pm @ Kirkland 128

The Fall Global Haiku Reading & Haiku Cut Competition

I will bring your haiku collections and return them to you at the final Global Haiku Reading.

Extra credit is available for bringing 2 or more guests to the reading, or for helping with one of our haiku reading tasks. Have your guests sign your signature haiku page for credit.

Dr. Brooks - M.C. & program designer (introductions & bio notes)
Savannah, Shannon, Anna - refreshments team
Ryan, Alyssa, Alexsenia - publicity team (chalk the walk, radio blurbs, twitter, Facebook event invites, haiku mini-posters)
Kaia - Videographer
Alyssa - signature haiku book greeter (Dr. Brooks will bring the signature book.)

(82) Submissions to haiku magazines Final. (one email submission copied to me & one snail mail submission brought to the final exam in envelopes)

Type a selection of 5 of your best haiku with your name and address on the upper left hand corner of the page. Also bring an envelope with your name and address in the upper left hand corner. Also include a self addressed envelope with your name and address in both the upper left hand corner and the addressee spot.

(83) Don't forget to do your course evaluation!