Join Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.

Yuki Teikei Haiku Society: Join. GEPPO magazine. Annual anthologies. 2007 Asilomar Haiku Retreat.

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

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.

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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).

Features of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society.

The name is Japanese: "Yu" means "having", "Ki" means "season", "Tei" means formal", and "Kei" means "pattern". Therefore, "yuki teikei" haiku have a season word and follow the 5-7-5 pattern of syllables.
Founded 1974 by Mr. Kiyoshi and Mrs. Kiyoko Tokutomi, to foster writing haiku in English along traditional (Japanese) guidelines.
A newsletter is published bimonthly (every two months).
An annual meeting is held; Several other meetings occur during the year.

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.

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