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- About the Haiku Foundation
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- How to Find Things on Our Site
New to Haiku?
- New to Haiku blog series
- Contemporary Haiku, an introduction
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Submit Haiku and Related Works
- Haiku Dialogue. Offers a triweekly prompt for practicing your haiku.
- THF Monthly Kukai. Craft a poem to the month’s theme, then assess the roster of poems by others on that theme.
- re:Virals. Submit commentary on selected haiku each week.
- Haiga Galleries. Submit haiga (haiku painting) for display in our galleries.
- HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival. Submit your haiku film for the festival.
- The Renku Sessions. Participate in 12, 20 and 36-link renku, moderated by the leading Western sabaki of our day.
- EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration. The world’s largest annual collaborative poem. It’s part of International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17), and plays out like an extended renku — the literary drinking game of feudal Japan.
Read Haiku and Related Works
- Digital Library. The Haiku Foundation’s digital collection of books and other holdings. See also Book-of-the-Week and Librarian’s Cache.
- Education Resources. A library of lesson plans and other resources for learning about haiku.
- Events Calendar. Haiku-related awards, competitions, and events.
- Haiku for Healing. Explore the potential of haiku as a tool for healing in a range of diverse circumstances such as physical illness, bereavement, estrangement and displacement. Hosted by Sonam Chhoki.
- Haiku of the Day. Guest editors curate thematic collections of poems for display on our home page. See also the Haiku of the Day Archive.
- Haiku Outside the Box. Way beyond a few words on a screen or in the pages of a book.
- Haiku Registry. Biographies of contemporary haiku poets.
- Haikupedia. The Haiku Foundation’s encyclopedia of haiku. Definitions, biographies, famous places, and important books from around the world.
- Juxtapositions. The research and scholarship journal of The Haiku Foundation.
- Publications. Books published by The Foundation.
- The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards. Recognizing excellence and innovation in the haiku genre.
- Archived Haiku Sites. An archive of classic haiku sites no longer available elsewhere.
What else would you like to see on this page to introduce you to The Foundation and haiku? Let us know through our contact page.