spring breeze—
playing catch with my dog
in the yard

Welcome to the teaching haiku resources web page. This page is currently under initial development, but the intention is to provide links and guides to resources for teaching haiku at all levels.

If you have or know of excellent resources for teaching haiku, please send this information to:

Dr. Randy Brooks
Millikin University
1184 W. Main
Decatur, IL 62522

email at: rbrooks@mail.millikin.edu

Centennial High School
Haiku Cut
April 2007

Following a Fulbright Memorial Foundation Scholarship to learn about Japan, Ms. Cynthia Helms invited Dr. Brooks to Centennial High School in Champaign, Illinois to conduct workshops on the art of reading and writing haiku with Mr. Stan Yanchus' creative writing students and interested students from across the school. Following the writing and editing workshops, there was a matching contest with the student haiku. We called the contest "HAIKU CUT" with teams competing for haiku book prizes.

Harristown Haiku
October, 2003

Ms. Kathleen Jansen had a Fulbright Scholarship to learn about Japan and invited Dr. Brooks and Millikin art therapy major, Jennifer Griebel, to lead workshops on writing haiku and painting sumie-like water color paintings.

Centennial High School
Haiga Cut
April 2007

Ms. Helms also invited Dr. Brooks to conduct workshops on the art haiga—which combines painting or photographs with haiku in Ms. Stacy Gross' advanced photography class. Following the haiga reading and editing workshops, there was a matching contest with the student haiga.

Download a copy of the HAIGA CUT powerpoint ppt file (3.2mb).

Prairieland Advocates
for Gifted Children Workshop
March, 1999