Welcome to Global Haiku Traditions • PACE January 2006 • Millikin University

Millikin University Course

Global Haiku Tradition
Mattoon PACE January 2006 • Dr. Randy Brooks

	forbidden hill covered with powdery snow we laugh the whole way
		by Crystal Lutz

	stormy night mother patting the backs of two small children
		by Jill Friesner

Advanced Studies in Poetry:
Global Haiku Traditions

PACE (6-10pm) · Library 013
Jan 11 · Jan 18 · Jan 25 · Feb 1 · Feb 8

Students in Global Haiku Tradition

Assignments Guide

Haiku to Edit 1

Kukai Favorite Selections
& Matching Contests:

Kukai 1 • Kukai 1 Favorites

Kukai 2 • Kukai 2 Favorites

Matching Contest • Contest Results

Rengay

January 2006 PACE Global Haiku Students Millikin University

Connie Volpe	Crystal Lutz	Jill Friesner	John Byler

Katrina Farris	Kelley Larrick	Leslee Finney	Lisa Wilder

Matt Lee	Stephanie Meis	Terry Mallory	Tracy Nash

Course Description

IN350 / English 340, Studies in Poetry: Global Haiku Tradition examines the origins and spread of Japanese haikai poetics from Japan around the world, with a special focus on the adaptation of haiku into other cultures and languages.

A special feature of the course students will research leading international poets, editors and scholars of contemporary haiku. We will study the history of haiku and related poetics in Japan, and then examine the contemporary internalization of haiku in various international cultures.

Students also learn the art of haiku from both a reader and a writer perspective, thus practicing the haikai arts, not merely reading about them.

Required Books

Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda. Paperback Reprint edition (May 1983) Kodansha International; ISBN: 0870115537

The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van Den Heuvel. Paperback edition (2000) W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393321185

Shirane, Haruo. Traces of Dreams: Landscape, Cultural Memory, and the Poetry of Bashô. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998.

To Hear the Rain by Peggy Lyles, 2002 Brooks Books; ISBN: 1929820038

Almost Unseen by George Swede, 2000 Brooks Books; ISBN: 0913719994

Love Haiku: A Lifetime of Love by Masajo Suzuki (translated by Lee Gurga & Emiko Miyashita), 2000 Brooks Books; ISBN: 09298200033

haiku conferences	haiku courses at Millikin	Modern Haiku magazine
speakers & readings	haiku competitions at MU	American Haiku Archive
student haiku projects	published haiku by students	links to haiku web sites
student research on haiku	haiku by Millikin students	directory of haiku magazines

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