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

Millikin University Course

Global Haiku Tradition
Mattoon PACE January 2007 • Dr. Randy Brooks

	lights off in the basement firefly lamp
		by Shannon Williams

	down by the pond dripping wet squish squash
		by Jerry Bobbett

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

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Haiku to Edit 1 • Haiku 1 Edited

Kukai Favorite Selections
& Matching Contests:

Kukai 1 • Kukai 1 Favorites

Tan-Renga 1

Kukai 2 • Kukai 2 Favorites

Rengay Attempts 1

Matching Contest 1 (Wabi)
Matching Contest 1 Favorites

Global Haiku PACE Students • January 2007 Millikin University

Annie Jones	Jerry Bobbett	Kara Manning

Kathy Carter	Shannon Williams	Wayne Longwill

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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