Welcome to Global Haiku Traditions • PACE April 2007• Millikin University

Millikin University Course

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

	I climb in bed the sheets are warm he’s already snoring
		by Tamara Foster

	the warmth of the sun a mother recalls the first word spoken
		by Danae Fultz

Advanced Studies in Poetry:
Global Haiku Traditions

PACE (6-10pm) · Mattoon
April 4 • April 11 • April 18 • April 25 • May 2

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

1 Tan-Renga

Kukai 2 • Kukai 2 Favorites

Matching Contest 1 (wabi)
Matching Contest 1 results

Rengay 1 Kukai

Kukai 3 • Kukai 3 Favorites

PACE Haiku Students Fall 2007 Millikin University • Mattoon, Illinois

Danae Fultz	Destany Lucas	Josh Parmenter	Tamara Foster

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: 0929820003

haiku conferences	haiku courses at Millikin	teaching haiku
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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