Global Haiku Tradition
EN355 - January 4 - January 24, 2021
Dr. Randy Brooks

<http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/MillikinHaiku/courses/globalJanuary2021/assignments.html>

ONLINE asynchronous:
1/4 – 1/24

ONLINE synchronous:
MW 6:30-7:30pm – 1/4, 1/6, 1/11, 1/13, 1/18, 1/20

ALL ASSIGNMENTS are to be submitted by attachments in emails.
(Use your SAVE AS function and choose "Rich Text Format" or "DOC" for digital files.)
Send them to: rbrooks@millikin.edu

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

Final Exam Reflections Due: 1/24

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/home/issues

Required Monday & Wedneday Synchronous ONLINE Sessions:

6:30-7:30pm – 1/4, 1/6, 1/11, 1/13, 1/18, 1/20

for 1/4 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(1) Read Chapter One - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 15-29) and write your short imagined response to "the sun coming up" haiku on page 15.

If you have not yet received your copy, please see the PDF copy of Chapter 1 in MOODLE resources 01.

(2) reading & response: read Mayfly 67, Summer 2019 (PDF available in MOODLE PDF 02) and write your reader response paragraphs to 2 favorite haiku in MAYFLY 67

(3) haiku writing: write your first 5-8 haiku attempts on transition times—lulls of dawn, of dusk, of relationships, of states of consciousness, summer's end, back to school.

(4) reading & response: Tea's Aftertaste by Aubrie Cox, (MOODLE PDF 03) and 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:

calling for the dog
at 2am
wind chimes

Cox, Tea's Aftertaste, 17

(email Dr. Brooks (rbrooks@millikin.edu) your assignments 1-4 by midnight Monday, January 4)

for 1/5 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

ENJOY reading the responses by others in our class (see MOODLE responses under Cox's book & Mayfly 67).

(5) listen to the Aubrie Cox interview (audio file available in MOODLE MP3 00) and write a short reponse about 2 things you realized about haiku from this interview.

(6) reading: To Hear the Rain by Peggy Lyles (MOODLE PDF 04) and 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.

(7) 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.

(8) haiku write: 5-8 new haiku on winter perceptions & childhood memories

(email your assignments 5-8 by midnight January 5)

for 1/6 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

(9) Read Chapters Two & Three - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 31-66) MOODLE PDF 05 and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

Kukai 1 Favorites online Wednesday 1/6 at 6:30pm

(10) Kukai 1 Favorites: read the haiku written by students in this class. They are all anonymous at this time on Kukai 1 Favorites. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM KUKAI. They are also available on our web site as a link.

You may choose as many haiku as you like. Just send me the number of each haiku you choose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write a reader response to your three favorite haiku from Kukai 1 Favorites (three paragraphs)

(11) haiku write: 5-8 new haiku on OPEN topic

(email your assignments 9-11 by midnight January 6)

for 1/7 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

See our favorites from Kukai 1 & ENJOY reading the responses by others in our class (see MOODLE).

(12) Read Chapters Four - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 67-82) and write about two favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

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

(14) 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).

(15) 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 your assignments 12-15 by midnight January 7)

for 1/8 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

(16) reading:Almost Unseen by George Swede (MOODLE PDF 06) and do the writing response: find three favorite haiku from the George Swede handout and write a short response paragrapsh about them.

(17) haiku writing: write 5-8 new haiku on the angst of being human.

(email your assignments 16-17 by midnight January 8)

for 1/11 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

Kukai 2 online Monday 1/11 at 6:30pm

Enjoy the PDF handout of Haiku to Edit 1 (emailed to you).
There is no written assignment with this.
Just examples of how to edit your own haiku. Try editing a few of your own.

(18) Read Chapters Five and Six - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 83-109) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(19) reading: Gail Sher - Guide for Beginning Haiku Writers (MOODLE PDF 07) and write your reading response: Compare Gail Sher's suggestions for writing haiku with the introduction in Peggy Lyles' book (one page max).

(20) reading response: compare the genesis of discourse for two authors (George Swede or Wally Swist or Aubrie Cox or Peggy Lyles). By genesis of discourse, I mean WHERE do these writers find their haiku? Why do they choose to write haiku about these moments? What is the source of significance worth turning into a literary artwork for them?

(21) write 5-8 haiku on on working out, exercise, getting healthy, yoga, meditation, finding peacefulness.

(email your assignments 18-21 by midnight January 11)

for 1/12 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(22) Kukai 2 Favorites: read the haiku written by students in this class. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM KUKAI. They are also available on our web site as a link.

You may choose as many haiku as you like. Just send me the number of each haiku you choose as a favorite. Try to choose at least 5-10 haiku (or more if you like more). THEN write a reader response to your three favorite haiku from Kukai 2 Favorites (three paragraphs)

(23) reading: handout of haiku from School's Out by Randy Brooks (MOODLE PDF 08) and do the writing response: find three favorite haiku from Randy Brooks and write a short response paragraphs about them.

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

(25) write 5-8 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.

(email your assignments 22-25 by midnight January 12)

for 1/13 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

kukai 3 (01 Matching Contests) online Wednesday 1/13 at 6:30pm

(26) reading: Love Haiku by Masajo Suzuki (MOODLE PDF 09) and do the reading responses: find three favorite haiku by Masajo and write a short response paragraph to them.

(27) 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.

(28) 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 your assignments 26-28 by midnight January 13)

for 1/14 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

(29) 01 Matching Contests: read the haiku written by students in this class. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM. They are also available on our web site as a link.

Pick your favorite from each match, etc, until you get your champion. We will do this together Wednesday night, january 13. THEN write a reader response to your two favorite matches (a match is 2 haiku). These may be from original matches or matches that showed up in our tournament.

(30) Read Chapters Seven - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 110-124) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(31) haiku writing: 5-8 new haiku OPEN TOPIC

(32) Read MAYFLY issue 59 (see MOODLE PDF 10). Find a quiet contemplation space for 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 your assignments 29-32 by midnight January 14)

for 1/15 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

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

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

(email your assignments 33-34 by midnight January 15)

for 1/18 do the following 3 reading/writing assignments

Matching Contests 3 & 4 & 5 - online Monday 1/18 at 6:30pm

Matching Contest 3 - Love Haiku

Matching Contest 4 - Best Friends

Matching Contest 5 - Self Care & Natural Disasters

(35) reading: "An Introduction to Haiku" (Japanese haiku) MOODLE PDF 11 and write about 2 favorite haiku

(36) reading 2: Old Pond Comics about the Japanese masters at <http://www.oldpondcomics.com/masters.html>

(37) 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)

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

(39) Post-midterm Essay Preview - email me your Author or Haiku topic:

Think about what or who you'd like to write about for your contemporary haiku reader response essay. These essays are due January 20. I need to know your intended topic or author by Monday at midnight, January 18. See the bibliography of ONLINE books and exhibits available:

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

Here are guidelines for this assignment (also see MOODLE PDF 15 & sample essay MOODLE PDF 16):

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.

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

(email your assignments 35-40 by midnight January 18)

for 1/19 do the following 5 reading/writing assignments

(41) Matching Contests 3 & 4 & 5: read the haiku written by students in this class. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM KUKAI. They are also available on our web site as a link.

Matching Contest 3 - Love Haiku

Matching Contest 4 - Best Friends

Matching Contest 5 - Self Care & Natural Disasters

Pick your favorite from each match, etc, until you get your champion. We will do this together Monday night, January 18. THEN write a reader response to a favorite match from each matching contest. These may be from original matches or matches that showed up in our tournament.

(42) reading: Haiku Guy, pages 1-19 and 43-53 (MOODLE PDF 12) and doing this 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.

(43) Read Chapters ten - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 147-160) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(44) writing response: Compare the advice given to Buck-Teeth of poets Mido and Kuro. What do you think of each of their advice? Which appeals to you more? Explain why.

(45) Write 3-5 haiku following Kuro's advice, and 3-5 haiku following Mido's approach.

(email your assignments 41-45 by midnight January 19)

for 1/20 do the following 5 reading/writing assignments

matching contests 5 & 6 online Wednesday 1/20 at 6:30pm

(46) Contemporary Haiku Reader Response Essays due

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.

Allie Bonk - Sonia Sanchez
Ashley Galloway - Issa
Caitlin Marshal l- Matsuo Basho
Eli Hartsfield - bud haiku
Harrison Atkins - Jack Kerouac
Jakob Henderson - crime haiku from Body of Evidence
Jenny Tullis - clothing in haiku
Mira Burens - death haiku
Nicholas Sablan - George Swede
Parag Sachdeva - nature haiku - Lyles & Swist
Sam Thornburg - water in haiku
Sarah Obert - Haibun Today

(47) Write 5-8 new haiku on topics similar to your essay or in response to haiku discussed in your essay.

(email your assignments 46-47 by midnight January 20)

for 1/21 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(48) read the haiku in Matching Contests 6 & 7. You will receive a PDF of these haiku & invite to our ZOOM KUKAI. They are also available on our web site as a link.

Matching Contest 6

Matching Contest 7

Pick your favorite from each match, etc, until you get your champion. We will do this together Wednesday night, January 20. THEN write a reader response to a favorite match from each matching contest. These may be from original matches or matches that showed up in our tournament.

(49) reading response writing: Chapter 2 of Matsuo Bashô by Ueda (MOODLE PDF 13). Select three favorite haiku from Bashô. Write a paragraph response to these three haiku.

(50) Read Chapters eleven - The Art of Reading & Writing Haiku (pages 161-169) and write about three favorite haiku from this portion of the book.

(51) 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.

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

(email your assignments 48-52 by midnight January 21)

for 1/22 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(53) reading: handout of a Bashô led kasen-no-renga (MOODLE PDF 20) and write a response to a favorite link (two adjacent links)

(54) Read the tan-renga and write about a favorite tan-renga from Tan-Renga-GraceGuts (MOODLE PDF 17).

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

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

(57) EXTRA CREDIT (not required) haiku project writing: write 10-20 haiku on a topic of special interest to you & then send me 8-10 of your best haiku on that topic

(email your assignments 53-56 by midnight January 22)

for 1/24 do the following 4 reading/writing assignments

(58) EXTRA CREDIT (not required): Signature haiga (a photo with one of your favorite haiku embedded)

(59) 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 PDF 22):

Select and organize your best haiku & senryu & haibun & renga into a collection (with your reading partner's help). You may want to write them in a little booklet, or print them in a binder.

Give your collection a title and a © 2021 page. (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).

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 preface and haiku contents in the collection to Dr. Brooks! (You may send photos of the actual booklet as well.)

(email your assignments 58-59 by midnight January 24)

for 7/24 do the following 2 reading/writing assignments

(60) 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.

(61) 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 your assignments 60-61 by midnight January 24)

Dr. Brooks' final favorite haiku