Alaska Haiku Society Other Sites

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OTHER HAIKU WEBSITES FULL OF GREAT INFORMATION

Check out: The Haiku Foundation! Absolutely THE most comprehensive haiku happening on the Internet. An outstanding blog with frequent exciting new topics and great discussions. Calendars of haiku-related events, including a contest calendar. A gallery of poets worldwide who have published English-language haiku. *And more!
This page is very much still under construction, but we wanted you to know it was here. Keep checking back, and we will keep it adding to it. NEWLY LISTED HERE: Haiku NewZ – New Zealand poets are so fortunate to have a dynamic website such as this very well-maintained one, chock-full of haiku news. LOTS of haiku information is available through Internet searches - some good and some not-so-good - but always fun. New to Haiku? Find some great articles at haiku world's begin haiku.
Other State or Regional Haiku Groups (Let us know if you'd like to add your group. No obligation to reciprocate unless you want to.) Haiku Northwest Haiku Poets of Northern California	The Heron's Nest -- one of my favorite haiku journals -- available online and in hard copy. Check the latest issue and all of the archived issues online to get examples of some of the very best haiku being published today. Modern Haiku -- the oldest English-Language haiku journal, highly respected worldwide. When my first issue arrived, I immediately began ordering back issues, a few at a time. A most impressive journal, to be sure. Frogpond -- the official publication of the Haiku Society of America. Always an enjoyable read and a must-have in any haiku library. I have most of the back issues for this one too! Acorn- one of my very favorite haiku journals, with consistently high-quality haiku.	Mann Library's (Cornell University) Daily Haiku - a great treat each day, with haiku selected by Tom Clausen from the work of a featured poet every month. Tobacco Road Poet - Curtis Dunlap has developed a truly entertaining Website, featuring his own work as well as that of many other poets. There is a daily haiku (and an archives), and a wonderful blog page where various haiku poets tell us why they write haiku, and share with us some of the favorites that they have written. tinywords sends a free daily haiku by e-mail to over 2,300 subscribers. The haiku is the entire message, so you can view these on handheld message devices too! f/k/a . . .breathless punditry & one-breath poetry: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalEsq -- This enjoyable site has been archived - definitely worth a look-back.
	Mayfly - a tiny but powerful haiku journal, published twice yearly, containing only a select very few of some of the finest haiku	Haiku Society of America -- An essential professional membership for serious haiku poets. The newsletter alone would be worth the membership fee. That it also includes a subscription to Frogpond makes it an unbeatable bargain.
	Mariposa is a wonderful little journal published by the Haiku Poets of Northern California. You don't have to live in northern California to become a member of HPNC -- but only members' work is published in the journal.	Serge Tome's tempes libre/free times is a very pleasing experience each time I visit. The first time I saw one of my haiku translated into French, I felt so special! AND NOW: Serge has created a new website that features haiku poets who live in northern climes: Road to the North website (2008)
	Bottle Rockets -- Quite fun -- Check it out.	Haiga -- truly beautiful haiku paintings that add further richness to some really incredible haiku by many haiku poets worldwide -- by haiga artist Kuniharu Shimizu
	South by Southeast (SxSE) is another journal I always enjoy. It doesn't have a website yet, but subscription information is as follows: Published by The Richmond Haiku Workshop, $16 (U.S.) for three issues yearly. Send to: South by Southeast, 3040 Middlewood Road, Midlothian, VA 23113.	Snapshot Press - Some of the very best haiku publications available today, and some great competitions every year. The annual haiku calendar is a treasure, and the competition is stiff! The recently-published collections of haiku by Carolyn Hall, Mark Brooks, Ferris Gilli, Roberta Beary, and many other outstanding poets are truly beautiful!
	Simply Haiku is a beautifully-designed online journal -- a pleasure to visit, with the added bonus of including a short bio and photo for most of the poets.	Dhugal J. Lindsay's Haiku Universe is filled to the brim with invaluable essays, information about using kigo (season words) in haiku, and so much more.
	haigaonline is a splendid offering of haiga (a blend of art and haiku). Visiting this site is like finding a hidden temple or chapel in cyberspace.	Ray Rasmussen's Website has some breathtaking photography and haiga, plus some very pleasing haiku and haibun.