Resources for Japanese-Style Short Form Poetry

This is my post on the Writer’s Digest Community site in the Japanese-Style Short Form Poetry group I started August 15, 2010. Here are some resources for additional information:

Haiku Society of America (HSA) website: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/

A key organization in the U.S.

HSA Official Definitions: http://www.hsa-haiku.org/archives/HSA_Definitions_2004.html

Official definitions for each type of Japanese-style short form poetry.

HSA Journal: Frogpond http://www.hsa-haiku.org/frogpond/index.html A premier haiku journal.

Tanka Society of America (TSA) website: http://tankasocietyofamerica.com/index.htm The key organization for tanka in the U.S.

TSA Journal: Ribbons http://tankasocietyofamerica.com/RibbonsMainPage.htm A premier tanka journal.

Additional literary journals:

bottle rockets http://www.bottlerocketspress.com/home.html A journal for haiku, senryu, haibun; issues feature art, also.

Haibun Today http://www.haibuntoday.com/ A key online journal for haibun.

Selected publications:

The Narrow Road to the Deep North, by Basho (1644 – 1694). Basho is widely considered one of the haiku masters. This is his well known travel dairy with haiku.

In the Company of Crows: HAIKU and TANKA Between the Tides, by Carole MacRury (2008). Sumi-e (illustrations) by Ion Codrescu. A lovely collection of poetry.

Note: Carole MacRury and I are acquaintances. I purchased her book of haiku and tanka, and admire her work.