Welcome to Zen Art & Haiku • Spring 2025 • Millikin University

Millikin University English Writing Roundtable

Zen Aesthetics & Haiku
Spring 2025• Dr. Randy Brooks

	early morning low fog the boat awaiting
		by Whitney Edmonson

Final Exam - A Public Haiku Reading

12:00 - 1:50 pm
May 16, 2025

Shilling 422
Millikin University

Writing Roundtable:
Zen Aesthetics & Haiku

(Wednesdays 12:00-1250 pm)
Shilling Hall Room 422
Spring 2025

Students in Zen & Haiku

Syllabus

Assignments Guide

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Kukai & Matching Contests:

kukai 1 • kukai 1 favorites

kukai 2 • kukai 2 favorites

kukai 3 • kukai 3 favorites

kukai 4 • kukai 4 favorites

kukai 5 • kukai 5 favorites

kukai 6 • kukai 6 favorites

kukai 7 • kukai 7 favorites

kukai 8 • kukai 8 favorites

kukai 9 • kukai 9 favorites

kukai 10 • kukai 10 favorites

kukai 11 • kukai 11 favorites

kukai 12 • kukai 12 favorites

kukai 13 • kukai 13 favorites

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Spring 2025 Zen Haiku Students

Eden Niebrugge	Shaina Yumol	Helana Swenson

Jim Wilkerson	Sav Stringer	Semmieon Brandon

	Shinta Koganezawa

Required Books

Get the following books directly from Dr. Brooks (available first day of class):

Bare Necessities: Selected Haiku of Francine Banwarth, (2023) Brooks Books

Amann, Eric. The Wordless Poem: A Study of Zen in Haiku. (1978)

School’s Out: Selected Haiku of Randy Brooks (1999) Press Here

Zen Art for Meditation. Stewart W. Holmes & Chimyo Horioka. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1978. ISBN 978-0804812559.

Issues of MAYFLY magazine and kukai book prizes.

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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