Millikin University Course

Haiku Writing Roundtable
Fall 2001 • Dr. Randy Brooks

See the haiku in memorium
for the Terrorist Attack victims.

  last words . . .
a cell phone message
on the answering machine
 
by Dr. Randy Brooks
 

September 11
9AM
my clay pot falls over

 
by Cathy Sadowski

Haiku Writing Roundtable

Course Description

EN170 Haiku Writing Roundtable was a student centered one-credit workshop modeled after writers' groups. This workshop met as a weekly reading circle. For the fall 2001 semester, we explored the Japanese and English haiku traditions. Students read and wrote about the haiku tradition, and tried several approaches to composing their own original haiku.

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Current Course Pages
 

in the guitar case
mother's soul
waits to be re-strung

 
by Ben Alvey

Student Haiku Colletions:

AmandaHill BenAlvey BrockPeoples CathySadowski
Amanda
Hill		 Ben
Alvey 		Brock
Peoples 		Cathy
Sadowski
JasonSalters NickWalters SarahKnutilla
Michelle
Detering 		Jason Salters Nick
Walters 		Sarah
Knutilla
 

Required Books

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

Zen Art for Meditation by Stewart W. Holmes & Chimyo Horioka. (Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1973).

Autumn Wind Haiku: Selected Poems by Kobayashi Issa by Lewis MacKenzie. Paperback (Sept. 1999) Kodansha International.

Almost Unseen : Selected Haiku of George Swede by George Swede, 2000 Brooks Books.

School’s Out: Selected Haiku of Randy Brooks by Randy Brooks, 1999 Press Here.

Einstein's Century: Akito Arima's Haiku 2001 Brooks Books.
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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