Advanced Studies in Poetry: Global Haiku Tradition
HN202-03 Creative Arts Honors Seminar - Fall 2024
Dr. Randy Brooks

<http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/courses/globalFall2023/assignments.html>

Classroom: SH422

Informal Reader Response Writing & Haiku Writing (20 days) (10 each) • 200 total points
Contemporary Haiku Essay (post 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
Final Reading • 20 points

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

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 Reading:
12/17 • 10:30 - 11:50 • Kirkland 128

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/
Heron's Nest • http://www.theheronsnest.com/
Modern Haiku • http://www.modernhaiku.org/
World Kigo Database • http://worldkigodatabase.blogspot.com/
FemKu • https://femkumag.wixsite.com/home

Extra Credit Opportunities:

10 points - listen to a HAIKU TALK podcast by Ben Gaa - write a response paragraph and haiku in response

https://www.youtube.com/@HaikuTalk

You may earn up to 50 extra credit points (10 for each podcast response)

or 8/27 - haiku of the day --> Dr. Brooks

reading: Mayfly magazine sample

for 8/29 - haiku of the day -->Dr. Brooks

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

(2) haiku writing: write your first 4-6 haiku attempts on transition times—lulls of dawn, of dusk, of relationships, of states of consciousness, summer's end, end of the pandemic, back to school).

reading: Tea's Aftertaste by Aubrie Cox, (PDF handout on MOODLE = 01-AubrieCox-TeasAftertaste)

(3) writing response: find 2 favorite Aubrie haiku—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

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) your 1 Mayfly response, your 2 Cox response & 4-6 new haiku by midnight Wednesday, August 28)

for 9/03 - haiku of the day --> Dr. Brooks

in class: Kukai 1 Favorites

reading: RED LEAVES by Peggy Lyles (PDF edition availbable on MOODLE - "45-Lyles-RedLeaves-PDF")

(4) 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.

(5) 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 3 haiku which capture different instances or feelings from within that longer memory from your experience.

(6) haiku write: 4-6 new haiku on about the end of summer perceptions or start of school year events

(email your 3 short responses & one 1-page sensory memory writing & 4-6 new haiku by midnight Sunday, 9/01)

for 9/05 - haiku of the day --> Izzy

(7) reading response: write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 1 Favorites (three paragraphs)

(8) 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. (PDF handout on MOODLE = 03-Art Of Reading & Writing Haiku)

(9) haiku write: 4-6 new haiku on OPEN topic

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) your favorites from kukai 1 & 4-6 new haiku by midnight Wednesday, 9/04)

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

in class: Kukai 2 Favorites

reading: The Silence Between Us by Wally Swist (paperback book)

(10) writing response: find three favorite haiku from Wally Swist and write a short response paragrapsh about them.

(11) 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).

(12) haiku write: go for a walk (by yourself or with friends) and write haiku that come to you from just being out there. (4-6 haiku from the outdoors)

(email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> send your responses and haiku by by midnight Sunday, 9/08)

for 9/12 - haiku of the day --> Izzy

(13) reading response: write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 2 Favorites (three paragraphs)

(14) writing haiku: open topic 4-6 haiku - write at least 1 haiku from our KUKAI winner's prompt: favorite thing

(15) write 1-2 haiga: (photograph or drawing with a haiku placed on the artwork) Combine one of your best haiku with a photograph or graphic. Send it to me as a jpg or png or photo.

Due by email midnight Wednesday, September 8. (email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> send your responses and haiku by midnight Wednesday, 9/11)

for 9/17

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

reading: handout of haiku from Almost Unseen by George Swede
(PDF handout on MOODLE = 06-GeorgeSwedeHaikuHandout)

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

(18) haiku write: write 4-6 new haiku on college life or the angst of being human.

(email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> send your responses and haiku by midnight Sunday, 9/15)

for 9/19

Kukai 3 • Kukai 3 Favorites

reading: Gail Sher - Guide for Beginning Haiku Writers (PDF handout on MOODLE = 07-Sher-GuideForBeginningHaiku)

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

(20) reading response: write your imagined felt response to two favorite haiga from Haiga Favorites (you can see the haiga on MOODLE)

(21) write 4-6 haiku on on heavenly bodies AND/OR working out, exercise, getting healthy, yoga, etc

(email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> comparison of Sher and Lyles, send your responses and haiku by midnight Wednesday, 9/18)

for 9/24

reading: My Red: The Selected Haiku of John Stevenson (clothbound book)

(22) writing response: find three favorite haiku from John Stevenson and write a short response paragraphs about them.

(23) reading response: compare the genesis of discourse for two authors (John Stevenson 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) writing haiku: open topic 4-6 haiku

(25) reading response: write your imagined felt responses to three favorite haiku from Kukai 3 Favorites

(email Dr. Brooks <rbrooks@millikin.edu> send your responses and haiku by by midnight Sunday, 9/22)

for 9/26

(26) Read Chapter 3 - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book. (PDF handout on MOODLE = 03-Art Of Reading & Writing Haiku)

(27) Send me 2 or 3 haiku pairs (either-or alternatives of your own haiku for editing workshop).

(28) during or at a different time and place from your quiet contemplation space writing, slowly read your new issue of MAYFLY 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> send your responses and haiku by midnight Wednesday, 9/25)

for 10/01

04 Kukai Favorites & 01 either-or final haiku

(29) reading: handout of haiku from School's Out by Randy Brooks (PDF handout on MOODLE = 08-RandyBrooksHaikuHandout) AND writing response: find two favorite haiku from Randy Brooks and write a short response paragraphs about them.

(30) send me your final edited versions for at least 2 pairs of EITHER/OR haiku. Write why you like one version better than the other. (from your group)

(31) writing haiku:homecoming haiku (literarly going home or high school or Millikin's homecoming weekend) (write some that actual feature elements of your home town area!) Our kukai 04 winner says our prompt is cell phone (write 1 or 2 phone related haiku)

(32) reading response to Kukai 4 Favorites: write your imagined felt response to three favorite haiku from Kukai 4 Favorites (three paragraphs).

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

for 10/3

matching contest 01 - Kukai 05

reading: The Millikin University Haiku Anthology (PDF handout on MOODLE = 15-Millikin University Haiku Anthology)

(33) reading responses:write about 3 favorite haiku from the MU Haiku Anthology

(34) write 4-6 open topic 4-6 haiku. Prompt from class: animals!

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Wednesday, 10/02

for 10/08

team (in class)- find 4-5 haiku on a certin theme or issue & discuss how college students in MU Haiku Anthology address it in these haiku - have 1 team member report back notes to me in email

(35) reading response to (2) Favorite pairs from Matching Contest 01: compare and note favorites to 2 pairs

(36) reading responses to three favorite haiku from Kukai 05

(37) write 4-6 haiku - open topic - write 1-2 haiku on the prompt of "growing up"

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments by midnight Sunday, 10/06

for 10/10

Team Presentations - Millikin University Haiku themes

New Year's Eve Party Haiku - Charley, Charlie, Gracie

Old Love Haiku - Lily, Dan, Maliyah

Heated Moments - Ava, Bella, Caroline

(38) write 3-4 haiku on your group's MU Haiku presentation topic (and finish your presentation)

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Wednesday, 10/09

for 10/15

(39) 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.

(40) writing love haiku or senryu: write 4-6 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 due by midnight Sunday, 10/13

for 10/17

(41) reading responses to three favorite haiku from Kukai 6 Favorites

(42) reading: The Haiku Anthology (PDF handout on MOODLE = 10-The Haiku Anthology)
and write response paragraphs for three favorite haiku from the The Haiku Anthology

(43) haiku writing: write 3-5 haiku on open topic and kukai 06 prompt - relaxation or vacation

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Wednesday, 10/16

for 10/22

Vacations Kukai 7 • Kukai 7 Favorites

Halloween Kukai 8 • Kukai 8 Favorites

(44) 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. (PDF handout on MOODLE = 03-Art Of Reading & Writing Haiku)

(45) - haiku writing: write 4-6 haiku on fun or spooky or scary Halloween or All Saints Day or Day of the Dead topics

10-24 FALL BREAK! ENJOY!!!!! - no Thursday class

for 10/29

tan-renga

(46) reading responses to four favorite haiku (2 from Kukai 7 Favorites and 2 from Kukai 8 Favorites)

(47) write 4-6 haiku autumn break - Charlie gives us this prompt: "humility" or "humbling" moments

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Sunday, 10/27)

for 10/31

(48) try writing 3 tan-renga, using haiku from the handout sheet emailed to you for the hokku starts

(49) writing response Read Bare Necessities: Selected Haiku of Francine Banwarth (PDF available on MOODLE - 32 Francine): write about three favorite haiku by Fraincine and write a short response paragraphs about them.

(50) write 4-6 haiku OPEN TOPIC!

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Wednesday, 10/30

for 11/05

(51) 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 14. I need to know your intended topic or author by Sunday at midnight, November 03. See the PDF of the ONLINE HAIKU COLLECTIONS by many authors.

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 of 15-Haiku-ReaderREsponseEssay & 16-Sample-ReaderResponseHaikuEssay).

(52 ) Kukai 9 Favorites - write about 2 favorite haiku from Kukai 9 Favorites

(53) reading response - write about 2 favorite Tan-Renga capped

(54) write 4-6 new haiku - OPEN TOPIC - the prompt from Maliyah is "nostalgia"

Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Sunday, 11/03)

for 11/07

reading: Haiku Guy, (MOODLE handout = 13-HaikuGuy pages 1-19 and 43-53)

(55) writing response: Practice the exercise of stop, look, and listen as described in the book, HAIKU GUY. 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.

(56) 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.

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Wednesday, 11/06

for 11/12 - scheduling day (no class)

Work on your contemporary reader response haiku essays!

(57) kukai Kukai 10 Favorites - write about 2 of your favorites & write about 1 matched pair from Matching Contest 3

(58) writing haiku: 4-6 haiku in response to haiku or author being discussed in your essay

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

for 11/14

(62) Contemporary Haiku Reader Response Essays due by midnight Wednesday, 11/13

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 make copies and share these with the class as a PDF file while you discuss your author.

Abby Wilken - unexpected sounds often not noticed
Ava Zukowski - transition times in haiku
Bella Palermo - baseball haiku
Caroline Arnold - Peggy Lyles' nature haiku in her life
Charley Condill - George Swede's wide range of topics
Charlie Armstrong - being outdoors / how nature affects our feelings
Daniel Mungons - Masajo Suzuki's Love Haiku
Dayton Lasack - beauty of nature caught in haiku
Gracie Shaffer - Peggy Lyles word choices
Izzy Jones - how nature contributes to Peggy Lyles' haiku
Katelyn Wendt -everyday aspects of love in haiku
Lily Moore - haiku of family from David Oats
Maliyah Battle - the double meanings of haiku
Matthew Kordesh - haiku of Bruce Feingold
Melis Barutcu - encounters with music in haiku
Natalie Mase - John Stevenson's personal style in haiku
Rachel Nott - haiku of Lee Nash, a South African poet

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Wednesday, 11/13

for 11/19 - More Reader Response Essays

(64) reading response: write about 3 favorite haiku from other student essays of your choice (see PDF copies of the essays at our course MOODLE)

(65) writing haiku: write 4-6 haiku in response to or related to topics discussed in other student essays

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Sunday, 11/17

for 11/21 - Kukai 11 Favorites

(66) reading response writing: Chapter 2 of Matsuo Bashô by Ueda (MOODLE handout = 14-Basho-Chapter2-byUeda). Select two favorite haiku from Bashô. Write a paragraph response to these two haiku.

(67) EXTRA CREDIT (not required) = what is Sabi and Karumi. Can you write a haiku example of each?

(68) writing haiku: 4-6 haiku OPEN TOPIC

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Wednesday, 11/20

for 11/28 no class - Thanksgiving

Take a break and enjoy being with friends, family and quiet time with yourself

for 12/03 - Matching Contest 5 - Thanksgiving

(71) reading response writing: Share 10-20 of your best haiku with family and friends over Thanksgiving break, and see which ones they like the best. Write an email to me about favorites selected by your family and friends. Which ones did they like best and why?

(72) haiku writing: write 4-6 haiku or a haiku sequence over Thanksgiving Break about your life's reality during Thanksgiving break or about special locations and places of significance to you in your home town or travel. Don't write a bunch of cliches or stereotypical spring break stuff. Write from the reality of YOUR actual Thanksgiving break.

email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) assignments due by midnight Sunday, 12/01 email Dr. Brooks

for 12/05 - Project Sharing Day

(73) haiku project proposal

The purpose of the haiku project is to apply haikai arts to something that means a lot to the student—usually something related to their major field of study. 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.

Write 12-15 haiku on a theme or topic of your choice. Prepare to share 8-10 of your best ones.

In class: Share your project with the class: (3 minutes max for each presentation). I will BUZZ you if you run over.

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send a copy of your HAIKU PROJECT by midnight Weds, 12/04)

for 12/10 - no class

for 12/12 - last day of class (except for final) - Share your haiku collection & photo signature haiga

(75) Signature haiku haiga - a digital photo or artwork with your signature haiku & name.

The signature haiku process—a haiku to give to others when they ask about haiku that can be used to teach them about haiku and to share some of your work with them. A haiku you want to be known for or known by—one that works with a lot of readers. A gift of a haiku insight . . . often presented as a gift of some sort such as a bookmark, a small haiku stone, etc. Just make one signature haiga to send to Dr. Brooks.

Send a digital copy of it to Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu)

(76) Haiku Collection Booklets due: Select and organize your best haiku & senryu & haibun & renga into a collection. Make a little booklet, or print them in a binder, or write them in a blank book.

Select and organize your best haiku & senryu & haibun & renga into a small booklet or collection. Give your collection a title and a © 2024 page. (Often signature haiku are connected to the title.) Include a dedication page 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). 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.

BRING 1 copy of your Haiku Collection to class Thursday, December 12 (email digital copy)

(77) Don't forget to e-mail a copy of the contents of your collection including your introduction to Dr. Brooks by midnight, Wednesday, December 06!

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) send your digital copy of your colletion by midnight WEdnesday, 12/11)

for 12/17 - FINAL Haiku Reading (time and location to be announced)

Final Exam Reading:
12/17 • 10:30 - 11:50 • Kirkland 128

NOTE WE ARE STARTING PROMPTLY AT 10:30 am

Our final is a Haiku poetry reading. You will read from your haiku collection. Please invite friends and family to our reading. It is open to the public. You will receive your haiku collections back from me at the Final Reading.

Anyone want to help bring cookies, snacks, or help publicize the event? Yes, for extra credit, of course!

for 12/17

Post-class evaluation (SIRs & Reflections)

(78) Don't forget to e-mail your short bio statement to Dr. Brooks.

(79) Don't forget to do your SIR course evaluation!

(80) 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. (3 pages maximum)

(81) 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? (3 pages maximum)

EMAIL assignments 78, 80, 81 to me by midnight Thursday, December 19 at: rbrooks@millikin.edu

I will post final grades on Friday, December 20