(18) Kukai 2 Favorites: read the haiku written by students in this class. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM KUKAI. They are also available on our web site as a link.

You may choose as many haiku as you like. Just send me the number of each haiku you choose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write a reader response to your three favorite haiku from Kukai 2 Favorite (three paragraphs)

(19) Read Chapters Five and Six - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 83-109) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(20) reading: Gail Sher - Guide for Beginning Haiku Writers (07-Sher-GuideForBeginningHaiku.pdf) and write your reading response: Compare Gail Sher's suggestions for writing haiku with the introduction in Peggy Lyles' book (one page max).

(21) reading response: compare the genesis of discourse for two authors (George Swede or Wally Swist or Aubrie Cox or Peggy Lyles). By genesis of discourse, I mean WHERE do these writers find their haiku? Why do they choose to write haiku about these moments? What is the source of significance worth turning into a literary artwork for them?

(22) write 5-8 haiku on on working out, exercise, getting healthy, yoga, meditation, finding peacefulness.

(email your assignments 18-22 by midnight June 1)

for 6/2 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(23) reading: handout of haiku from School's Out by Randy Brooks (08-RandyBrooksHaiku.pdf) and do the writing response: find three favorite haiku from Randy Brooks and write a short response paragraphs about them.

(24) Read Chapter 13 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 187-200) and write about one favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(25) write 5-8 new haiku - employing contemplation or meditation in your quiet space. Find a quiet place on campus or at your home to sit, close your eyes, breathe easy and just relaxe . . . DON'T FALL ASLEEP. FALL AWAKE and write some new haiku.

(email your assignments 23-25 by midnight June 2)

for 6/3 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

ZOOM 6:30-7:30pm – 6/3

(26) Matching Contests 1: read the haiku written by students in this class. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM. They are also available on our web site as a link.

Pick your favorite from each match, etc, until you get your champion. We will do this together Thursday night, June 3. THEN write a reader response to your two favorite matches (a match is 2 haiku). These may be from original matches or matches that showed up in our tournament.

(27) reading: Love Haiku by Masajo Suzuki (09-Masajo-LoveHaiku.pdf) and do the reading responses: find three favorite haiku by Masajo and write a short response paragraph to them.

(28) reading response: find one more favorite haiku by Masajo Suzuki. 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. Your fictional piece should be 1 page max.

(29) writing love haiku or senryu: write 5-8 love or anti-love haiku. Not necessarily all lovey-dovey cliches, but love, crushes, first date, breaking up, unrequited love, good friends, bitterness about love, winter dance, sock hop, blind date, romance, vampire love, and so on . . .

(email your assignments 26-29 by midnight June 3)

for 6/4 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

(30) Read Chapters Seven - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 110-124) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(31) haiku writing: 5-8 new haiku OPEN TOPIC

(32) Read MAYFLY issue 59 (00-Mayfly59-Summer2015.pdf). Find a quiet contemplation space for writing, slowly read your new issue of MAYFLY closing your eyes after reading each haiku to fully imagine each one. Let your imagination/memory go and write 2-3 haiku from where one of your favorite haiku took you.

(33) reading: The Haiku Anthology (10-TheHaikuAnthology.pdf) and do the reader response: write response paragraphs for three favorite haiku from the The Haiku Anthology.

(email your assignments 30-33 by midnight June 4)

for 6/7 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

Kukai 3 ZOOM 6:30-7:30pm – 6/7

(35) Responses to Kukai 3: read the haiku written by students in this class. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM KUKAI. They are also available on our web site as a link.

You may choose as many haiku as you like. Just send me the number of each haiku you choose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write a reader response to your three favorite haiku from Kukai 3 (three paragraphs)

(35-b) Read the Haibun 2 written by students in our class. Write a response about your favorite one. Also let me know which ones you like (even the ones you didn't write about).

(36) reading: "An Introduction to Haiku" (11- IntroJapaneseHaiku.pdf) and write about 2 favorite haiku

(37) 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)

(38) Read Chapters Eight - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 125-137) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(39) Post-midterm Essay Preview - email me your Author or Haiku topic:

Think about what or who you'd like to write about for your contemporary haiku reader response essay. These essays are due June 9. I need to know your intended topic or author by Monday at midnight, June 7. See the bibliography of ONLINE books and exhibits available:

A Bibliography of Online Books, Journals and Exhibitions on Haiku, Senryu and Tanka in English
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/bibliographies/OnlineHaikuBooks.pdf

Here are guidelines for this assignment (also see 16-Haiku-ReaderResponseEssay-Guidelines.pdf & 16-Sample-ReaderResponseHaikuessay.pdf):

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

The Haiku Foundation has a Haiku Poets Registry that may be helpful in getting a preview of cerntain authors: <https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-registry/>

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.

(40) writing haiku: open topic 5-8 haiku

(email your assignments 35-40 by midnight June 7)

for 6/8 do the following 5 reading/writing assignments

(41) reading: Haiku Guy, pages 1-19 and 43-53 (13-HaikuGuy1-19and43-53.pdf) and doing this 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) Read Chapters ten - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 147-160) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(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 3-5 haiku following Kuro's advice, and 3-5 haiku following Mido's approach.

(email your assignments 41-44 by midnight June 8)

for 6/9 do the following 5 reading/writing assignments

(45) Contemporary Haiku Reader Response Essays due

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. Yes, give your essay a title.

Austin Medina - George Swede
Caitlyn Kesler - George Swede
Jacey Centola - Masajo Suzuki & love haiku
Jake Pietryk - James W. Hackett
Leana Temple - heartbreak love haiku
Maddie Schroeder - love & heartbreak haiku
Nick Laramee - George Swede
Tanesha Williams - bittersweet love
Tanya Vaughn - Wally Swist

(46) Write 5-8 new haiku on topics similar to your essay or in response to haiku discussed in your essay.

(email your assignments 45-46 by midnight June 9)

for 6/10 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

kukai 4 • ZOOM 6:30-7:30pm – 6/10

You may choose as many haiku as you like. Just send me the number of each haiku you choose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write a reader response to your three favorite haiku from Kukai 4 (three paragraphs)

(47) reading response writing: Chapter 2 of Matsuo Bashô by Ueda (14-Basho-Chapter2-byUeda.pdf). Select three favorite haiku from Bashô. Write a paragraph response to these three haiku.

(48) Read Chapters eleven - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 161-169) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(49) 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.

(50) haiku writing: write 3-5 haiku based on sabi and 3 based on wabi and 3-5 haiku based on karumi

(email your assignments 47-50 by midnight June 10)

for 6/11 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(51) reading: handout of a Bashô led kasen-no-renga (21-Basho-Sample-Renga.pdf) and write a response to a favorite link (two adjacent links)

(52) Read the tan-renga and write about a favorite tan-renga from Tan-Renga-GraceGuts (17-Tan-Renga-Graceguts-2008.pdf).

(53) tan-renga capping: write two-line caps for 3 favorite haiku from any previous kukai or matching contests

1 tan-renga

(54) Read Chapter 12 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 171-186) and write about a one favorite tan-renga and one favorite Rengay.

(55) EXTRA CREDIT (not required) haiku project writing: write 10-20 haiku on a topic of special interest to you & then send me 8-10 of your best haiku on that topic.

(email your assignments 51-55 by midnight June 11)

for 6/13 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(56) EXTRA CREDIT (not required): Signature haiga (a photo with one of your favorite haiku embedded)

(57) Haiku Collection due: gather your best haiku from the course, collected with a preface about your understanding or approach to writing haiku.

Guidelines on final collections (see 23-finalcollections-guidelines.pdf):

Select and organize your best haiku & senryu & haibun & renga into a collection (with your reading partner's help). You may want to write them in a little booklet, or print them in a binder.

Give your collection a title and a © 2021 page. (often signature haiku are connected to the title)

Include a dedication 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).

OPTIONAL - 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.

Email the preface and haiku contents in the collection to Dr. Brooks! (You may send photos of the actual booklet as well.)

(email your assignments 56-57 by midnight June 13)

for 6/13 do the following 2 reading/writing assignments

(58) Review haiku you have written from the kukai, matching contest, and from your final haiku collection. Write about why 5 of your haiku are your favorites.

(59) Write a short reflection essay on how your life has been enriched by learning more about the literary art of reading and writing haiku. What has the art of haiku taught you that will be of value in your professional, social and personal life?

(email your assignments 58-59 by midnight June 13)

Dr. Brooks' final favorite haiku