Advanced Studies in Poetry: Global Haiku Tradition
HN202 Creative Arts Honors Seminar - Fall 2020
Dr. Randy Brooks

<http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/courses/globalFall2020/assignments.html>

Classroom: Synchoronous Online (ZOOM)

Informal Reader Response Writing & Haiku Writing (20 days) (10 each) • 200 total points
Kasen Renga • 20 points
Contemporary Haiku Essay (mid-term) • 100 points
Haiku Project • 100 points
Haiku Collection (paper booklet & by email) • 100 points
Haiku Collection Poetics Preface on YOUR Art of Writing Haiku • 20 points
Signature Haiku Haiga • 20 points
Submission Ready (page in envelopes) • 20 points
Final Reading • 20 points

ALL ASSIGNMENTS are to be submitted by email (1 attachement per day is best).
Send them to: rbrooks@millikin.edu

Use your SAVE AS function and choose "Rich Text Format" or "DOC" for digital files.
Do NOT send me PDF file versions of your homework.
Attach files to your email to me
or
copy and paste your work into the body of the email.

Handouts are available from MOODLE (most are PDF files).

Final Exam Haiku Reading: December 17, 2-4pm

Haiku Society of America • http://www.hsa-haiku.org/
American Haiku Archives • http://www.americanhaikuarchives.org/
Haiku Chronicles • http://www.haikuchronicles.com/
The Haiku Foundation • http://www.thehaikufoundation.org/
Haiku Poet Intervews • https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/category/video_archive/thf_interviews/
Simply Haiku • http://www.simplyhaiku.com
Heron's Nest • http://www.theheronsnest.com/
Modern Haiku • http://www.modernhaiku.org/
A Hundred Gourds • http://ahundredgourds.com
World Kigo Database • http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
Haibun Today • http://haibuntoday.com/
FemKu • https://femkumag.wixsite.com/femkumag/issues

Extra Credit Opportunities:

watch for extra credit assignments that pop up from class

for 8/25 - haiku of the day --> Dr. Brooks

You will recieve a ZOOM invite the morning before each class.

in class reading: Mayfly 69 Summer 2020 magazine sample (MOODLE handout 00-Mayfly69)

for 8/27 - haiku of the day --> Sadie

(1) writing response: send me an email copy of your in-class response to a favorite haiku in MAYFLY 69

(2) haiku writing: write your first 8-10 haiku attempts on transition times—lulls of dawn, of dusk, of relationships, of states of consciousness, summer's end, back to school.

reading: Tea's Aftertaste by Aubrie Cox, (MOODLE handout 01-AubrieCox-Tea'sAftertaste)

(3) writing response: find 2 favorite haiku by Aubrie Cox — and write your imagined felt responses to them (one paragraph each)

REMEMBER to cite each haiku fully (do not add capital letters or punctuation) like this:

father-daughter talk
my fishing lure
caught in the moon

Aubrie Cox, Tea's Aftertaste, 27

EXTRA CREDIT: write about a favorite haiku from MAYFLY 68 (email handout)

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 1, 2, 3 by midnight Wednesday, August 26

for 9/1 - haiku of the day --> Maggie

in class: kukai 1

ENJOY reading the responses by others in our class (see MOODLE responses under Cox's book & Mayfly 69).

(4) listen to the Aubrie Cox interview (audio file available at MOODLE handout 02-AubrieCoxInterview.mp3) and write a short reponse about 2 things you realized about haiku from this interview.

(5) Read Chapters 1 and 2 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 15-34) and write a short imagined responses to 2 favorite haiku from these chapters.

If you have not yet received your book, please see the PDF copy (MOODLE handout 03-ArtOfHaiku-Chapter-1).

(6) haiku write: 5-8 new haiku on about the end of summer perceptions or COVID-19 realizations.

EXTRA CREDIT: Try 2-3 wabi haiku? Things imbued with the life, spirit of other things, life or people from the past.

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 4, 5, 6 due by midnight Sunday, 8/30

for 9/3 - haiku of the day --> Stark

(7) reading responses to KUKAI 1: Send me the number of each haiku you chose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 1 Favorites (three paragraphs).

reading: To Hear the Rain by Peggy Lyles (MOODLE handout 04-PeggyLylesHaiku)

(8) writing responses: find 3 favorite Lyles haiku—write your imagined felt responses to them (one paragraph each) and briefly write your imagined, felt response to them. Be ready to discuss why you like them.

(9) haiku write: 5-8 new haiku from childhood memories

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 7, 8, 9 due by midnight Wednesday, 9/2)

for 9/8 - haiku of the day --> Spencer

in class: KUKAI 2 & HAIBUN 1

(10) Read Chapter 3 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(11) writing extended memory & memory haiku: choose a fourth favorite haiku by Peggy Lyles or Aubrie Cox that especially triggered memories from your childhood or past. This time write a one page memory describing a moment from your own life. THEN write 2-3 haiku which capture different instances or feelings from within that longer memory from your experience.

(12) haiku write: 3-5 new haiku OPEN TOPIC

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 10, 11, 12 due by midnight Sunday, 9/6

for 9/10 - haiku of the day --> Adrian

(13) reading responses to KUKAI 2: Send me the number of each haiku you chose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 2 Favorites (three paragraphs).

(14) reading responses to HAIBUN 1: Send me the titles of your favorite 2-3 haibun, then write about why 1 haibun is your favorite one of all.

reading: from the book The Silence Between Us by Wally Swist

(15) Read some haiku from The Silence Between Us by Wally Swist and write do the following writing response: find two favorite haiku from Wally Swist and write a short response paragrapsh about them.

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 13, 14, 15 due by midnight Wednesday, 9/9

for 9/15 - haiku of the day --> Gwen

in class - haiku to edit 1

(16) Read the rest of the haiku from The Silence Between Us by Wally Swist AND read Chapter 4 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 67-82) and write about three more favorite haiku by Wally Swist (or former students).

(17) reading response: find an interesting "matched pair" of haiku (one from Wally Swist and one from Peggy Lyles or MAYFLY) to read side by side. write a short analysis of the writing strategies and techniquse used in these haiku. (not reader response but analysis of writing techniques such as line break, word choice, arrangement, rhythm, sounds, emphasis, break, voice, tone, attitude, etc.). one page maximum for your analysis (half a page is fine).

(18) haiku write: go for a walk (by yourself or with friends) and write haiku that come to you from just being out there. (5-8 haiku from the outdoors)

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 16, 17, 18 due by midnight Sunday, 9/13

for 9/17 - haiku of the day --> Micky

in class: Kukai 3 • Kukai 3 Favorites

kukai 3: read the haiku written by students in this class. They are all anonymous at this time. You will receive a PDF of these haiku. They are also available on our web site as a link. You may choose as many haiku as you like during or before kukai.

(19) haiku to edit workshop (startup) - write at least 2 alternative versions to 3-4 haiku (these can be previous haiku or new ones you are working on but would like some edit suggestions

reading: handout of haiku from Almost Unseen by George Swede (MOODLE handout 06-GeorgeSwedeHaiku)

(20) writing response: find three favorite haiku from the George Swede handout and write a short response paragrapsh about them.

(21) haiku write: write 5-8 new haiku on the angst of being human

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 19, 20, 21 due by midnight Wednesday, 9/16

for 9/22 - haiku of the day --> Rebecca

(22) reading response to Kukai 3 Favorites: Send me the number of each haiku you chose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 3 Favorites (three paragraphs).

reading: Gail Sher - Guide for Beginning Haiku Writers (availabe from Moodle handout 07-Sher-GuideBeginngHaiku)

(23) reading response: compare the genesis of discourse for two authors (George Swede or Wally Swist and Peggy Lyles). why do they choose to write haiku about these moments? what is the source of significance worth turning into a literary artwork for them?

(24) reading response: compare Gail Sher's suggestions for writing haiku with the introduction in Peggy Lyles' book (one page max)

(25) write 5-8 haiku on on working out, exercise, getting healthy, yoga, staying in good mental health, etc.
Optional - try 2 or 3 ZOOMER lingo haiku.

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 22, 23, 24, 25 due by midnight Sunday, 9/20

for 9/24 - NO ZOOM today -

Kukai 4 • Kukai 4 Favorites

kukai : read the haiku written by students in this class. They are all anonymous at this time. You will receive a PDF of these haiku. They are also available on our web site as a link. You may choose as many haiku as you like during or before kukai. THIS WILL BE AN OUT OF CLASS KUKAI.

reading: handout of haiku from School's Out by Randy Brooks

(26) writing response: find three favorite haiku from Randy Brooks and write a short response paragraphs about them.

(27) writing haiku: open topic 5-8 haiku. try a funeral haiku if you'd like

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 26, 27 due by midnight Wednesday, 9/23

for 9/29 - haiku of the day --> Bryn

(28) reading response to KUKAI 4: Send me the number of each haiku you chose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 4 Favorites (three paragraphs).

(29) Read Chapter 13 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 187-200) and write about one favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(30) write 3-5 new haiku -- employing contemplation or meditation in your quiet space. Find a quiet place on campus or at your home to sit, close your eyes, breathe easy and just relaxe . . . DON'T FALL ASLEEP. FALL AWAKE and write some new haiku.

(31) during or at a different time and place from your quiet contemplation space writing, slowly read your new issue of MAYFLY (MOODLE handout 05 Mayfly68-Winter2020) closing your eyes after reading each haiku to fully imagine each one. Let your imagination/memory go and write 2-3 haiku from where one of your favorite haiku took you.

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 28, 29, 30, 31 due by midnight Sunday, 9/27

for 10/1 - haiku of the day --> Kyle

Matching Contest 1 • Favorites

Matching Contest 2 • Favorites

(32) reading: Love Haiku by Masajo Suzuki (MOODLE handout 09-Masajo-LoveHaiku) and find three favorite haiku by Masajo and write a short response paragraph to each one.

(33) reading response: find one more favorite haiku by Masajo. Let your response be a more extended imaginative memory or purely fictional piece about someone spinning off the third Masajo haiku as its starting point. End your short fictional piece with a 2-3 haiku. Your fictional piece should be 1 page max.

(34) writing love haiku or senryu: write 5-8 love or anti-love haiku. Not necessarily all lovey-dovey cliches, but love, crushes, first date, breaking up, unrequited love, good friends, bitterness about love, winter dance, sock hop, blind date, romance, vampire love, and so on . . .

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 32, 33, 34 due by midnight Wednesday, 9/30

for 10/6 - haiku of the day --> Nicole

(35) reading response: write about your favorite match from Matching Contest 1 (one paragraph) and write about your favorite match from Matching Contest 2 (one paragraph)

(36) Read Chapters Seven - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 110-124) and write about two favorite haiku by former students from this portion of the book.

(37) PARTNER WITH 1 or 2 OTHER STUDENTS FROM CLASS (or previous classes) FOR THIS ASSIGNMENT.

Discuss compare as a literary art genre to another art or activity. THEN create a presentation on this comparison to share with the class. The presentation can be a PowerPoint, Prezi or video posted on YouTube. Include some haiku writing activity for students in the class.

genre n 1: a kind of literary or artistic work 2: a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, literary genre] 3: a class of artistic endeavor having a characteristic form or technique. (dictionary.com)

literary genre n : a style of expressing yourself in writing [syn: writing style, genre] (dictionary.com)

genre (zhän`r?), in art-history terminology, a type of painting dealing with unidealized scenes and subjects of everyday life. Although practiced in ancient art, as shown by Pompeiian frescoes, and in the Middle Ages, genre was not recognized as worthy and independent subject matter until the 16th cent. in Flanders. There it was popularized by Pieter Bruegel, the elder. It flourished in Holland in the 17th cent. in the works of Ter Borch, Brouwer, Metsu, De Hooch, Vermeer, and many others, and extended to France and England, where in the 18th and 19th cent., its major practitioners were Watteau, Chardin, Greuze, Morland, and Wilkie. In Italy genre elements were present in Carpaccio's and Caravaggio's paintings, but not until the 18th cent. did genre become the specialty of an Italian artist, Pietro Longhi. The French impressionists often painted genre subjects as did members of the American ashcan school. (Columbia encyclopedia)

see Wikipedia for an introductory discussion of genre at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_genre

Definitions of genres, especially literary genres, usually includes some expectations of form or structure, so our next question is to consider the formal elements of haiku. But genres also include certain expectation of content and aesthetic experience.

Previous semester topics have included:

Haiku Charades - Haiku Pictionary - Haiga & Visual Arts - Haiku & Fishing - Food & Haiku - Haiclue - Jazz Haiku Impromtu-ku - Scifaiku - Star Trek Haiku - Harry Potter Haiku - Billboard Haiku - Senryu & Comic Strips

(38) write 3-5 haiku related to your comparison or upcoming activity.

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 35, 36, 37, 38 due by midnight Sunday, 10/4

for 10/8 - haiku of the day --> xxxxx

Comparisons

Kyle & Mara & Stark - Vine-Ku
Sadie - Poloroid Photos
Mickey & Bryn - haiku dance improvisation
Danica & Jon Kuebler- haiku & card games (Kahoots!)
Gwen & Rebbeca & Maggie - French colloquialisms & haiku
Emily & Grant - haiku song lyrics
Adrian - classical music haiku response

(39) reading: The Haiku Anthology and write response paragraphs for three favorite haiku from the The Haiku Anthology

(40) haiku writing: write 3-5 haiku in response to 2-3 favorite haiku from the The Haiku Anthology

(41) haiku writing: write 3-5 haiku on anything OPEN TOPIC - things that are important in your life

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 39, 40, 41 due by midnight Wednesday, 10/7

for 10/13 - kukai! 5

(42) do the haiku writing from the haiku comparison activities - see MOODLE for the PDF guidelines

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments activities haiku due by midnight Sunday, 10/11

for 10/15

(43) reading response to KUKAI 5: Send me the number of each haiku you chose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 5 Favorites (three paragraphs).

(44) reading: The Haiku Anthology and write response paragraphs for three more favorite haiku from the The Haiku Anthology

(45) writing haiku: open topic 3-5 haiku & try writing 1 or 2 haiku "back to" or in response to favorite haiku from the latest kukai 5

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 43, 44, 45 due by midnight Wednesday, 10/14

for 10/20

team presentation on results of comparison activities

(46) Watch the DVD (if possible) & read the haiku: Haiku: The Art of the Short Poem and write response paragraphs for three favorite haiku from Haiku: The Art of the Short Poem

Inivite some friends or family to watch the DVD video in this book. Most of the haiku cited by the haiku poets are included in the anthology usually in the same order as the video.

(47) reader response 2: write a short reflection about what you realized about the English-langauge haiku poetry community from the DVD anthology. also briefly discuss one of the haiku poets who especially intrigued you.

(48) Read Chapters Eight - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 125-137) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(49) writing haiku: open topic 5-8 haiku

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 46, 47, 48, 49 due by midnight Sunday, 10/19

for 10/22

Kukai 6 • Kukai 6 Favorites

(50) reading translations: An Introduction to Japanese haiku (MOODLE handout 11-IntroJapaneseHaiku) and write about 2 favorite haiku

(51) reading response: Old Pond Comics about the Japanese masters at <http://www.oldpondcomics.com/masters.html> and write a reader response about 1 favorite Old Pond Comic

OR TRY TO DRAW YOUR OWN HAIKU COMIC! (extra credit)

(52) write 5-8 Halloween haiku (OR All Saint's Day or Day of the Dead) (try some SPOOKY & some FUN)

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 50, 51, 52 due by midnight Wednesday, 10/21)

for 10/27

Matching Contest 3 - Halloween Favorites

(53) reading response to Kukai 6 Favorites: Send me the number of each haiku you chose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 6 Favorites (three paragraphs).

reading: Haiku Guy, (MOODLE handout 12-HaikuGuy)

(54) writing response: Practice the exercise of stop, look, and listen as described in the book. Find something, whether it be in your dorm, on campus, or somewhere where you can sit quietly without distraction and observe a particular thing, area, or person. Then, write about what you observed, describing what stuck out to you. Write 3-5 haiku from this exercise.

(55) writing response: Compare the advice given to Buck-Teeth of poets Mido and Kuro and write 3-5 haiku following Kuro's advice, and 3-5 haiku following Mido's approach.

(56) Send me your proposal for your Reader Response Essay. (1 paragraph)

Post-midterm Reader Response Essay Preview - Author or Haiku topic Study:

Think about what or who you'd like to write about for your contemporary haiku reader response essay. These essays are due November 5. I need to know your intended topic or author by Sunday at midnight, October 25. See the PDF of the ONLINE HAIKU COLLECTIONS by many authors.

If you are on campus, I may have books to loan you from the DECATUR HAIKU COLLECTION available from my office, SH209.

Here's guidelines for this assignment:

haiku author or topic study: A formal essay introducing a particular contemporary author, topic or technical approach to contemporary haiku readers. This is a reader-response essay, so the primary source for your essay will be your own readings and analyses of 6-10 haiku. If you are doing an author focus, discuss your author's approach to writing haiku. You may choose to write about a haiku topic instead of an author, with reader responses to 6-10 haiku related to that topic. Matching comparisons with haiku by other authors are always valued in all approaches to this essay. This can focus on one book by the author in the form of a book review essay or on a particular theme or technical approach to haiku by the author.

o focus on a point of insight or question about that author's unique contribution
o include response discussions of 6-10 haiku by the author
o optional to include at a matching comparison to a haiku by another author (or more)
o may include email or in-person interview questions to help address the haiku writer's poetics

The Haiku Foundation has a Haiku Poets Registry that may be helpful in getting a preview of cerntain authors: <https://www.thehaikufoundation.org/haiku-registry/>

Length? 5-10 pages single-spaced. Citations? Full citation of each source within text first time mentioned (followed by haiku citation convention of author, publication title abbreviated, page number) for subsequent mentions. Yes, do include a works-cited page.

A Bibliography of Online Books, Journals and Exhibitions on Haiku, Senryu and Tanka in English
http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/bibliographies/OnlineHaikuBooks.pdf

See guidelines for this assignment (handout page of15-Haiku-ReaderREsponseEssay & 16-Sample-ReaderResponseHaikuEssay).

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 53, 54, 55, 56 due by midnight Sunday, 10/25)

for 10/29

(57) reading response: write about your favorite match from Matching Contest 3a (one paragraph) and write about your favorite match from Matching Contest 3b (one paragraph)

(58) reading: The Millikin University Haiku Anthology and write response paragraphs for three favoriate haiku from the MU Haiku Anthology

(59) Read Chapters 9 and 10 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 139-160) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(60) writing haiku: 3-6 OPEN TOPIC

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 57, 58, 59, 60 due by midnight Wednesday, 10/28

for 11/3 - scheduling day (no class)

Work on your contemporary reader response haiku essays!

(61) writing haiku: 4-6 haiku in response to haiku being discussed in your essay

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 61 due by midnight Sunday, 11/1

for 11/5

(62) Contemporary Haiku Reader Response Essays due by midnight Wednesday, 11/4

Length? 5-10 pages single-spaced. Citations? Full citation of each source within text first time mentioned (followed by haiku citation convention of author, publication title abbreviated, page number) for subsequent mentions. Yes, do include a works-cited page. Yes, give your essay a title.

(63) On a separate page, please type all of the haiku used in your essay. I will share these with the class as a PDF file while you discuss your author. OR make a PowerPoint or Prezi with your essay's haiku for sharing.

Adrian Sanchez Rodriguez - George Swede
Binny Tamang - Garry Gay
Bryn Sentnor - Prune Juice senryu journal
Danica Brezovar - Prune Juice senryu journal
Emily Kemp - science fiction haiku
Grant Unruh - Randy Brooks
Gwen Klinkey - George Swede
Kyle Jordan - David Lanoue
Mara Currens - Ruth Yarrow
Maggie Kusar - firefly haiku
Mikey McNaughton - Natalia Rudychev
Nicole Dadoly - Australian haiku
Rebecca Murphy - Kalamu ya Salaam
Sadie Scott - George Swede haiku portraits
Sophia Zinger - images of water in O. Mabson Southard's haiku
Stark Winter - Alan Pizzarelli
Sydney Griggs - love haiku

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 62, 63 due by midnight Wednesday, 11/4

for 11/10 - More Reader Response Essays

KUKAI 7

(64) reading response: read/review the essays by others in our class. Write a paragraph response about what you especially liked or realized from at least one essay. These are PDF documents on our class MOODLE.

(65) reading response: write about 3 favorite haiku from another student's essay

(66) writing haiku: 3-5 haiku OPEN TOPIC

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 64, 65, 66 due by midnight Sunday, 11/8

for 11/12

(67) reading response to Kukai 7 Favorites: Send me the number of each haiku you chose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 7 Favorites (three paragraphs).

(68) reading response writing: Chapter 2 of Matsuo Bashô by Ueda (MOODLE handout 13-Basho-Chapter2). Select three favorite haiku from Bashô. Write a paragraph response to these three haiku.

(69) response writing: Find two matching English haiku to Bashô's haiku—one representing the aesthetic of sabi and one the aesthetic experience of karumi. Write a paragraph for each pair comparing these English haiku with those by Basho. One sabi haiku not by Basho compared to one sabi haiku by Basho. And one karumi haiku not by Basho compared to one karumi haiku by Basho.

(70) haiku writing: write 3-5 haiku based on sabi and 3-5 haiku based on wabi and 3-5 haiku based on karumi

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 67, 68, 69, 70 due by midnight Wednesday, 11/11

for 11/17

Matching Contest 4 - Wabi, Sabi, Karumi

(71) Read the tan-renga and write about a favorite tan-renga from Tan-Renga-GraceGuts (MOODLE handout 17-TanRenga Grace Guts).

(72) tan-renga capping: write two-line caps for 3 favorite haiku from any previous kukai or matching contests

(73) Read Chapter 12 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 171-186) and write about a one favorite tan-renga and one favorite Rengay.

(74) extra credit: Read the student kasen renga by Bri Hill and students at:

http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/studentrenga/Grasshoppers&Tobacco.html

Send me your response to this kasen for extra credit (up to 10 points).

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 72, 72, 73, 74 due by midnight Sunday, 11/15

for 11/19

(75) reading response: write about your favorite match from Matching Contest 4 (one paragraph)

(76) write about 2 tan-renga favorites from our class (I will send you a PDF with student tan-renga).

(76) reading: handout of a Bashô led kasen-no-renga (MOODLE handout 21-Basho-Sample-Renga) and write a response to a favorite link (two adjacent links)

Mad verse kasen in ZOOM class!

We will be following these guidelines:

(1) ninjô verses—people or emotion or human environment verses (self, other or both)
(2) ninjô-nashi—non-people or things or place or nature-only verses

Only 3 verses may be ninjô verses in a row or ninjô-nashi verses in a row. The fourth one needs to switch back to the other if not sooner.

36 link kasen-no-renga

(1) hokku—sets tone, greets all, establishes season, quiets guests to join in
(2) wakiku—builds on unstated elements of the hokku and maintains season. ends in a noun
(3) daisanku—ends with open-ended image (often transitive verb ING)
(5) usually moon shows up here for the first time
(6) concludes the first page (jo) often written by the official scribe
(7)-(29) heats up the links and leaping (intensification)
(13) moon appears again
(17) blossoms usually show up here - STOP with verse 18 for a half-kasen. (end with openness)
(29) moon's third and final appearance
(30)-(36) kyû—the slow down finale (quiets back down into calmness)
(35) cherry blossoms always here
(36) end with openness and reverberation

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 75, 76, 77 due by midnight Wednesday, 11/18

for 11/24 & 11/26- Thanksgiving Break

for 12/1

(78) write 2 rengay: one with someone who has taken a haiku class or a partner with someone in the class and 1 with family and friends outside haiku class. Read the HOW TO RENGAY handout.

OR for (78) you can try to write a half-kasen (18 links) or full kasen-renga (36 links) with friends, class members, or former class members.

(79) haiku project proposal: Send me a paragraph explaining your Haiku project or Ginko (a haiku walk by a group of friends in which everyone just enjoys the walk together, stopping to notice things and to write haiku from shared experience. write at least 10 on-the-spot Ginko walk haiku by you and your friends).

Questions about the haiku project? The haiku project can be a series or sequence or rengay of haiku on a single topic (snow, divorce, marriage, school, civil war, etc.). OR you may do a Ginko (haiku walk with friends where you write haiku that come from perceptions and feelings from the walk). OR you may write 2 more rengay or a Kasen-no-renga with friends or classmates or family.

The purpose of the haiku project is to apply haiku arts to something that means a lot to yout. Bring your passion to this project and connect it to haiku (photography & haiku) (music & haiku) (history and haiku) (psychology & senryu) (a kasen renga) (baseball haiku) (a collage of haiku) (haiku web site) (anthology of love haiku) . . . have fun with this. make it your dream assignment.

You can see sample previous haiku projects at:

http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/studentprojects.html

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 78, 79 due by midnight Sunday, 11/29

for 12/3

sharing haiku projects

(80) haiku project: send me your haiku project (PDF or PowerPoint)

December 3:

Danica Brezovar - Northwoods Haiku
Emily Kemp - A Trilogy of Pandemic Rengay
Grant Unruh - haiku inspired by music
Kyle Jordan - haiku & photography
Maggie Kusar - a cup of tea haiku
Mara Currens - haiku garden
Micky McNaughton - handwriting haiku
Rebecca Murphy - rengay with friends
Sadie Scott - ekphrastic rengay to famous paintings
Stark Winter - outdoors ginko
Sydney Griggs - haiku inspired short story

December 17:

Adrian Sanchez Rodriguez - music haiku & a composition
Bryn Sentnor - ekphrastic choreography & paintings to haiku
Gwen Klinkey - love haiku
Nicole Dadoly - weather haiku
Shannon Gage Whittington - mathematical haiku

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 80 due by midnight Wednesday, 12/2

final - December 17 - 2:00pm (ZOOM)

sharing Haiku Collections & Signature haiga

(81) Signature haiga (a photo with one of your favorite haiku embedded)

(82) Haiku Collection due: gather your best haiku from the course, collected with a preface about your understanding or approach to writing haiku.

Guidelines on final collections (see MOODLE handout 23-finalcollections-guidelines):

Select and organize your best haiku & senryu & haibun & renga into a collection (with your reading partner's help). Create a PowerPoint or Prezi collection of haiku to share with class at our final.

Give your collection a title and a © 2020. (often signature haiku are connected to the title)

Include a dedication if you would like to.

Be sure to write an author's introduction to your collection which explains your title and expresses your approach or why these are the ones you have included in your collection (your poetics preface). This is where you share your sense of the ART OF WRITING HAIKU.

OPTIONAL - ask a reading partner to write a short introduction to your collection, maybe pointing out one or two favorites—or their observation about something unique about your haiku (the reader's introduction). The reader's introduction should help strangers appreciate and value your collection.

Email the collection to Dr. Brooks!

(83) Review haiku you have written from the kukai, matching contest, and from your final haiku collection. Write about why 5 of your haiku are your favorites.

(84) Write a short reflection essay on how your life has been enriched by learning more about the literary art of reading and writing haiku. What has the art of haiku taught you that will be of value in your professional, social and personal life?

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments 81, 82, 83, 84 due by midnight Wednesday, 12/16