Millikin University PACE Course

Global Haiku Traditions
PACE November-December 2014 • Dr. Randy Brooks

 

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Advanced Studies in Poetry:
Global Haiku Traditions

PACE (Wednesdays 6-10pm) · SH 422
11/5, 11/12, 11/19, 12/3, 12/10

Students in Global Haiku Tradition

Assignments Guide

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Kukai & Matching Contests:

Kukai 1Kukai 1 Favorites

Haiku to Edit 1Results

Kukai 2Kukai 2 Favorites

Matching Contest 1Favorites

Matching Contest 2Favorites

Kukai 3Kukai 3 Favorites

Kasen Renga:

1 Tan-rengaFavorites

Select Reader Response Essays:

Below the Surface: Haiku of Robert Gibson
by Brian Johnson

Simplicity and Awareness in the Poetry of Elizabeth Searle Lamb
by Brittani Allen

Richard Wright's Haiku
by Danette Beach

Robert Mecum's Zombie Journal
by Sam Reisman

Grains of Incense by Sister Mary Thomas Eulberg, O.S.F.
by Shannon Lucas

November 2014 Global Haiku Students

AmandaPrahl

AmberHendricks

AndreaCavanaugh

BrianJohnson

BrittaniAllen

Amanda Prahl

Amber Hendricks

Andrea Cavanaugh

Brian Johnson

Brittani Allen

ChristHaddock

CrissyLennon

DanaGeorge

DanetteBeach

JacquelineDavis

Christi Haddock

Crissy Lennon

Dana George

Danette Beach

Jacqueline Davis

JaimeTaylor

KarianneWoods

KatieLuedke

KristenJohnson

KristinaSwaggerty

Jaime Taylor

Karianne Woods

Katie Luedke

Kristen Johnson

Kristina Swaggerty

MarkSweeney

MelissaMcFadden

MonicaAshley

OcamieOutlaw

PaulMercer

Mark Sweeney

Melissa McFadden

Monica Ashley

Kamie Danyale

Paul Mercer

SamReisman

ShannonLucas

TatumMcCutcheon

VeronicaMcQuire

YoulandaJohnson

Sam Reisman

Shannon Lucas

Tatum McCutcheon

Veronica McQuire

Youlanda Johnson

 

Course Description

English 340, Studies in Poetry: Global Haiku Tradition examines the origins and spread of Japanese haikai poetics from Japan around the world, with a special focus on the adaptation of haiku into other cultures and languages.

A special feature of the course students will research leading international poets, editors and scholars of contemporary haiku. We will study the history of haiku and related poetics in Japan, and then examine the contemporary internalization of haiku in various international cultures.

Students also learn the art of haiku from both a reader and a writer perspective, thus practicing the haikai arts, not merely reading about them.

Students will explore the history and practice Japanese haikai poetics and learn about the role of this literary art in both Japanese and contemporary American culture. Students will compare authors and approaches to haiku from both Japanese and American traditions. Students will develop their professional writing abilities, as academic research writers through a study of a contemporary haiku writer.

The haikai arts emphasize the power of concise writing, in which silence and things not said may be as important as the things said. Therefore, study of the haikai arts helps students develop exact, precise writing skills. Also, since haiku is the art of suggestion and connotation, it requires an integration of reading and writing abilities. Haikai arts stress the importance of an active reader to “finish” the haiku in their own mind. The active response to a haiku is to share your imagined response, or to create another haiku or extension of the original haiku. This process of connecting personal experiences, memories and feelings to the haiku by others helps students explore their own lives, memories, feelings and values.

As students practice the art of reading and writing haiku, they discover that the haikai arts are not the exclusive domain of professional writers. They discover that haiku is a possible means of developing a personal life of meaning and value from their own reading responses and through the writing of their own original haiku.

Download the complete Global Haiku Traditions Syllabus (doc file).

Required Books

From the bookstore:

Matsuo Basho by Makoto Ueda. Paperback Reprint edition (May 1983) Kodansha International; ISBN: 0870115537

The Haiku Anthology edited by Cor Van Den Heuvel. Paperback edition (2000) W.W. Norton & Company; ISBN: 0393321185

From Dr. Brooks (available first night of class):

To Hear the Rain by Peggy Lyles, 2002 Brooks Books; ISBN: 1929820038

Love Haiku: A Lifetime of Love by Masajo Suzuki (translated by Lee Gurga & Emiko Miyashita), 2000 Brooks Books; ISBN: 0929820003

Millikin University Haiku Anthology edited by Randy Brooks, Emily Evans, Melanie McLay & Rick Bearce, (2008) Bronze Man Books; ISBN 9780978744168


haiku conferences

haiku courses at Millikin

teaching haiku

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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