Anthologies of Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.

Yuki Teikei Haiku Society: Join. GEPPO magazine. Annual anthologies. The Yuki Teikei Haiku Society Retreat at Asilomar: 2007. 2008 (a haibun).

Toward an Aesthetic for English-Language Haiku by Lee Gurga. 2004 Pescadero Haiku Weekend Workshop (including exercises) with Christopher Herold. Haiku by J. Zimmerman. Haiku by Marianna Monaco. Haiku by Patricia J. Machmiller.

Essays on how to write specific forms: Haibun. Haiku. Hay(na)ku. Rengay. Tanka. Concrete. Ghazal. Lai. Pantoum. Rondeau. Rubáiyát. Sestina. Skaldic verse. Sonnet. Terza rima. Triolet. Tritina. Villanelle.

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited by Robert Hass. New books on writing poetry.

Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, its GEPPO magazine and its annual anthologies

For information about the GEPPO magazine of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society and the annual anthologies of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society, contact Yuki Teikei (the society of syllables and seasons).

2008 anthology: muse of the bird-song tree.
2007 anthology: fog and brittle pine.
2006 anthology: Flying White.
Collection of first-place haiku from Yuki Teikei's Kiyoshi Tokutomi Memorial Contest, 1978-2003: deeper and deeper.

Anthologies

To purchase copies of an anthology, contact Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.

2008 Members' Anthology: muse of the bird-song tree

• Edited by Paul O. Williams. The Anthology includes Paul's recent winner of the Shiki on-line kukai:

  rising a tadpole bursts the moon March 2008 winner -- Shiki on-line kukai Copyright © 2008 by Paul O. Williams Reprinted by permission.

• Book beautifully designed by donnalynn chase.

• Title from a haiku by D. Claire Gallagher.

• Contains:
  • Introduction by Paul O. Williams.

  • Selected poems (alphabetically by last name of 34 Yuki Teikei members): two poems for each poet.

    This "sky mind" poem is by Haiku by Marianna Monaco:

    trail of wispy clouds: one thought after another disappears Copyright © 2008 by Haiku by Marianna Monaco. Reprinted by permission.

    My poems are:

    Family quarrel the breakfast tartness of fresh quince jam [Heron's Nest (2007)] Sharp crescent moon -- the white goat scratches his shoulder with his curved horn [Geppo (2007)] Copyright © 2006-2008 by J. Zimmerman.

  • "YTHS - A 30-Year Chronology (One valiant, yet admittedly imperfect, first effort)".
    Starts with July 1975, when Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Toktomi conducted "the first meeting of the San Jose Yukuhara Haiku Society, the only English Division of the Yukuhara Society of Japan". Follows the independence of YTHS from Yukuhara in October 1978, and its development for three decades.

    Researched, compiled and edited by Carol Steele and Patricia J. Machmiller, with help from donnalynn chase, June Hopper Hymas, and Patrick Gallagher.

  • Season words, a list to aid the English-language poet think more deeply about the kigo aspect of haiku practice.

2007 Members' Anthology: fog and brittle pine

• Edited by donnalynn chase and June Hopper Hymas.

• Book designed by donnalynn chase; cover and drawings by Susanne Smith.

• Contains:
  • "Evaluating haiku: autumn thoughts for Asilomar" by June Hopper Hymas.

  • Selected poems (alphabetically by last name of 45 Yuki Teikei members): two poems for each poet.

    My poems are:

    September night at the tamper-proof trash cans the skinny raccoon Autumn again the redwood trail vanishes beyond the broken bridge [Geppo (September 2007)] Copyright © 2006-2008 by J. Zimmerman.

  • Results of the 2007 Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest. Included an honorable mention for my:

    Blue unicycle riding by New Year's morning balanced ... unbalanced Copyright © 2006-2008 by J. Zimmerman.

  • Season words, a list to aid the English-language poet think more deeply about the kigo aspect of haiku practice.

2006 Members' Anthology: Flying White

Flying White, 2006 Members' Anthology of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.

• Edited by donnalynn chase and June Hopper Hymas.
• Cover brush painting by Roger Ahio Abe.
• Contains:
  • Haiku submitted by members of Yuki Teikei.

  • Essay by donnalynn chase on the thirty-year anniversary celebration of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.

  • Poems by 38 members, alphabetically by author. This pleasing departure from the tradition of sequencing the poems by season presented two poems for each poet, often with resonances between as well as within the poem.

    Included two of mine:

    lotus reflections the hospice volunteer just sits the falconer raises her fist this brief life Copyright © 2006-2008 by J. Zimmerman.

    This is one of two by June Hopper Hymas:

    a tough decision -- voices of the winter wind through shattered trees Copyright © 2006-2008 by June Hopper Hymas. Reprinted by permission.

    This is one of two by Haiku by Marianna Monaco:

    the wind lifts the spray from the crest of the wave -- indigo sky Copyright © 2006-2008 by Haiku by Marianna Monaco. Reprinted by permission.

  • A brush painting by Carolyn Fitz, poet and painter, who teaches about "flying white", the art in the spaces of un-inked paper left by the sweep of a rapid paint brush.

  • Results of 2006 Kiyoshi and Kiyoko Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest. The judges were Naoki Kishimoto (b. 1961 in Okayama Prefecture, Japan) and Yoko Senda (b. 1962 in Japan), Their comments are included. The winner is Robert Beary. Carolyn Thomas is second. D. Claire Gallagher is third.

  • "The World of Kigo", reprint of a 1993 speech by Kiyoko Tokutomi.

  • "Kigo: A Meditation of Days", a haibun by Patricia J. Machmiller.

  • Season words, a list to aid the English-language poet think more deeply about the kigo aspect of haiku practice.

1978-2003: deeper and deeper.

deeper and deeper, first place haiku, 1978-2003, of the Yuki Teikei's Kiyoshi Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest.

• A brilliant collection. Essential reading for anyone thinking of making a submission to Yuki Teikei's Kiyoshi Tokutomi Memorial Haiku Contest.
• Collected and assembled by donnalynn chase and June Hopper Hymas.
• Attractive cover by June Hopper Hymas.
• Contains the powerful first-place haiku in the first 25 years of the Yuki Teikei Kiyoshi Tokutomi Memorial Contest.
• Includes many great haiku, but especially the first haiku that I fell in love with (as the Beatles say) "all those years ago":

  Campfire extinguished, the woman washing dishes in a pan of stars Copyright © 1980 by Raymond Roseliep.

Books on Haiku

The Essential Haiku: Versions of Basho, Buson, and Issa edited by Robert Hass. The past-poet laureate of the U.S.A has compiled this enthralling collection of his own essays in which he summarizes the lives of three masters and inventors of the haiku tradition in Japan: Matsuo Basho (1644-94), the ascetic and seeker, Yosa Buson (1716-83), the artist, and Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827), the humanist. He presents their lives, their prose, and 300 of their poems.

The Haiku Seasons: Poetry of the Natural World by William J. Higginson.

Related pages: Books of Poetry Form. Alphabetic list of poetry forms and related topics. Poetry index. How to Write Poetry.

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