Create a haiku by selecting and combining prearranged lines of text.

Explores the history and philosophy of Asian poetry. Includes an examination of Zen and Buddhist influences on the haiku poem.

Features modern haiku, senryu, and essays on style and technique. Examples include "Gust of wind, a flock of birds, sweeps the field."

Titles such as Basho's Here and Now, The Importance of Season-Words, and Mind, Not Form are examples of spotlighted essays.

Read haiku written in slang. Submit your own through an online form.

Create haiku poems through this random combination of descriptive words. Send poems to others, too.

Describes the Haiku, a Japanese literary style known for its concise style and symbolism.

Posts classic examples of haiku and a few articles on the subject.

Check out a biographical sketch of Yosa Buson, a famous 18th-century Japanese artist. Includes samples of his haiku poems.

Presents the history of haiku poetry through an examination of the lives and work of 10 famous haiku poets from the C15th to modern day.

Provides examples and short critical analyses of the work of four great haiku poets, Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki.

Take a haiku tutorial, leaf through the glossary, or consult related links. Writing must relate to HP Lovecraft and his Mythos writings.

Learn about this poetry genre which uses the customary Haiku form to describe Science Fiction themes. View the poetry collection, or send a poem.