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Articles about Writing Haibun & Haiku

Jo Balistreri, Two Favorite Haibun: Visions of Fatherhood and the Opening of New Worlds
Matthew Caretti, Two Favorite Haibun: Travel, the Senses, and the Unfamiliar
David Cobb, Some Personal Ideas About Writing Haibun
Cherie Hunter Day, Two Favorite Haibun: A Family Resemblance (Haibun & Prose Poetry)
Ken Jones, The “How to” of Haibun by a Haibun Master #1
Ken Jones, The “How to” of Haibun by a Haibun Master #2
Ken Jones, The “How to” of Haibun by a Haibun Master #3
Ken Jones, The “How to” of Haibun by a Haibun Master #4
Ken Jones, Writing Reality: Fictional Haibun Stories
Jim Kacian, A Haiku Primer
Jim Kacian, Ken Jones & Bruce Ross, On How Editors Evaluate Haibun
Jim Kacian, Innovation in Haiku
Kat Lehmann, Two Favorite Haibun: On Structure, Haibun’s Fourth Element
Kristen Lindquist, Two Favorite Haibun: On the Importance of Good Storytelling
Chen-ou Liu, Make Haibun New through the Chinese Poetic Past: Basho’s Transformation of Haikai Prose
Bob Lucky, The Haibun as Essay
George Marsh, Haiku Lessons: Show Don’t Tell
Kala Ramesh, The Heart of a Haiku: The Cut (Kire)
Kala Ramesh, Link and Shift; The Leap in Our Understanding
Ray Rasmussen, A Title Is a Title Is a Title, or Is It?
Ray Rasmussen, Characteristics of English-Language Haibun
Ray Rasmussen, Is It Possible for Non-Poets to Write Haibun?
Ray Rasmussen, The Role of Modeling in Haibun
Ray Rasmussen, The Writer’s Gaze: Sources of Inspiration
Michele Root-Bernstein. Two Favorite Haibun: Towards There
Bruce Ross, The Essence of Haiku
Bruce Ross, Haibun: Narratives of the Heart
Haruo Shirane, Beyond the Haiku Moment: Basho, Buson and Modern Haiku Myths
Lew Watts, Saying Less to Mean More
Michael Dylan Welch, Haibun: Aims and Problems
Michael Dylan Welch, Haibun: Definitions of Light
Michael Dylan Welch, Missing the Moon: Haikuless Haibun
Rich Youmans, Haibun & the Hermit Crab: “Borrowing” Prose Forms
Rich Youmans, Plaiting Poem & Prose: The Art of Braided Haibun
Rich Youmans, More Than the Sum of Its Parts: Explorations in Contemporary English-language Haibun
Rich Youmans, What’s Left Unsaid: Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory & Harriot West’s “Empty Spaces”
Joan Zimmerman, What Haibun Poets Can Learn from Non-haikai Western Poetry Practices
Joan Zimmerman, What English-Language Haibun Poets Can Learn from Japanese Practices

Articles about Writing Tanka Prose

Tish Davis, Quilting Prose: Including Squares That “Stretch the Truth”
Tish Davis, Rebound and Echo: The Artistry of Repetition in Tanka Prose
Tish Davis, The Sound of the Song: Commentary on Patricia Prime’s Tanka Prose “White & Red”
Claire Everett, Tanka Prose, Tanka Tradition: An Interview with Jeffrey Woodward (from Atlas Poetica)
Bob Lucky, Twenty-five Examples of Tanka Prose & an Editor’s Thoughts about Tanka Prose
Patricia Prime, A Game of Tag: Gary LeBel on Tanka Prose (from Haibun Today)
Charles D. Tarlton, Memoir of an American Tanka Prose (from Haibun Today)
Charles D. Tarlton, Notes for a Theory of Tanka Prose (from Atlas Poetica)
Charles D. Tarlton, Thoughts on Tanka Prose (from Skylark Tanka Journal)
Charles D. Tarlton, Toward a Theory and Practice of Tanka Prose (from Haibun Today)
Jeffrey Woodward, The Segue in Tanka Prose

Articles about Haiga

Emma Cortellessa, Haiga: A Successful Meeting of Image and Text
Jim Kacian, Looking and Seeing: How Haiga Works
Ron Moss, Ron Moss on Haiga (video Interview by Mike Rehling)

Interviews

Ken Jones Interview (2008, with Jeffrey Woodward)
Jim Kacian Interview (2008, with Patricia Prime)
• Dr Brijesh Raj, Haibun Speak: An Interview with Paresh Tiwari and Raamesh Gowri Raghanan (2021 and 2022)
• Bruce Ross, On Haibun (2008 interview with Jeffrey Woodward)
• Jeffrey Woodward, Terra Incognita: The World of Haibun and Tanka Prose (2009 interview with Ray Rasmussen)

Commentaries

Ken Jones, Lynn Edge’s “Trucker”
Ken Jones, High Poetry & Traditional Mainstream Haibun: The Work of Claire Everett and Rich Youmans
Ken Jones, Claire Everett’s “Under the Sun”
Ken Jones, Joshua Gage’s “Tragedy”
Ken Jones, Jeff Streeby‘s “Voyageur”
Ken Jones, Theresa Williams’ “Once and For All” and “In Repair”
Jim Kacian, A Collaborative Haibun by Elaine Riddell & Cynthia Rowe
Jim Kacian, Guy Shaked’s “Fortieth Birthday”
Jim Kacian, Peter Newton’s Three Haibun and General Comments
Jim Kacian, What Makes Us Fly
Bob Lucky, My Haibun “Running with the Yaks”
Ray Rasmussen, Ekphrasis & Steven Carter’s “Velasquez’ Maids of Honor”
Ray Rasmussen, My Haibun “Unsaddled”
Ray Rasmussen, Stylistic Inventiveness in Contemporary Haibun: Carol Pearce-Worthington and Patricia Rogers
Ray Rasmussen, Susan Nelson Myers’ “A Pot of Beans”
Ray Rasmussen, Jeffrey Woodward’s “Time with the Heron” and Poetic Techniques in Haibun Composition
Ray Rasmussen, Glenn G. Coats’ “Witness”
Ray Rasmussen, Ed Higgins’ “Escaped Poems”
Ray Rasmussen, Larry Kimmel’s “Evening Walk”: Moving Beyond Standard Haibun
Ray Rasmussen, Basho’s “Hiraizumi”: A Passage from The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Ono no Hosomichi)
Bruce Ross, Steve Andrews’ “Expressing the Mysteries of Love and Death”
Bruce Ross, Steven Carter’s “Sawtooth Range”
Bruce Ross, Christopher Patchel’s “First Love”
Bruce Ross, Mark Smith’s “Linger” & Ryan Jessup’s “A Light”
Bruce Ross, Theresa Williams’ “Memorial Day”

Tributes

Remembering Stuart Bartow
By Barbara Unger, Robin White, Tom Sacramona, Kristen Lindquist, and John Stevenson (with photo by Tom Clausen)

A Leap in the Light: Tributes to David Cobb
By Colin Blundell, Jim Kacian, Kim Richardson, Sean O’Connor, and Stephen Henry Gill (Tito)