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Across the Haikuverse

• No. 1: Let’s Get Started Edition
• No. 2: Only Connect Edition
• No. 3: Underappreciated Edition
• No. 4: Procrastination Edition
• No. 5: Too Much Homework Edition
• No. 6: Telegraphic Edition
• No. 7: Please Don’t Make Me Go Christmas Shopping Edition
• No. 8: The Aftermath Edition
• No. 9: Rabbit Edition
• No. 10: Bleak Midwinter Edition
• No. 11: Snail Mail Edition
• No. 12: Imperative Mood Edition
• No. 13: Lucky Edition
• No. 14: Abridged Edition
• No. 15: Catfish Edition
• No. 16: National Library Week Edition
• No. 17: Extraterrestrial Edition
• No. 18: Here Comes the Sun Edition
• No. 19: Summer 2011 College Tour Edition
• No. 20: Summer Solstice Edition
• No. 21: Mad Libs Edition
• No. 22: Not Dead Yet Edition
• No. 23: Back to School Edition
• No. 24: Autumnal Equinox Edition
• No. 25: Necessarily Brief Edition
• No. 26: The Z Edition
• No. 27: Okay, So I Lied Edition
• No. 28: The On Beyond Zebra Edition
• No. 29: The Not-Haiku Edition
• No. 30: The All Fall Down Edition
• No. 31: The Election Edition

Essays

• Its Depth: “Haiku as a World Phenomenon”
• Tanka? Okay, I Can Do That
• Welcome to the Playground
• What Should Haiku Look Like?
• The Past is a Different Country
• My Father’s Birthday, and a Brief Discourse on Ambiguity
• A Brief Discourse on Originality
• Easy Does It …
• Haiku: An Introduction (Apologies to J.D. Salinger)
• 365 Poems
• What Is a Haiku Anyway?
• Why Red Dragonfly? Ask Issa
• Batting 10,000: David Lanoue and Issa
• Pushing Ahead: Haiku Technique
• Gendai Haiku
• Innovators in English Language Haiku
• Renga: An introduction
• “there is no need to stuff it with more syllables”
• What is Natural?
• Snow Country: The Novel and Haiku
• 1986
• A Sort of Haibun (Old Letters)
• Do You Hate Haiku?
• Revision, Rewriting, Editing
• When It Isn’t Working
• Writer’s Block
• Haiku Discipline
• Haiku in English: Discuss
• Oh please/like this/is a haiku?
• Rhyme Time
• A lament (and a lot of pictures)

The Lives of Poets: Interviews (alphabetical by poet’s last name)

• Sanjukta Asopa
• Susan Diridoni
• Peter Newton
• Christopher Patchel

It’s Not Me, It’s You

• Mushroom Harvest
• Dragonfly Dreams
• 200th Post: Not Me
• 300th Post: You and Only You
• 400th Post: You Again

Haibun

• The Shape of Water
• Where we Live
• Misdirection
• Wave and Particle
• When I Dreamed This
• Where I See Myself (Or, The Current Political Situation)
• Lunar Rover
• Red Airplane
• What Was His Is Mine
• Babushkas
• Yorick in Moscow
• The Rainbow Cafe
• Post Office
• Instamatic
• Vietnam Era
• every Christmas
• Last Words: Four Myths
• bang and whimper
• A Sort of Haibun (Old Letters)
• Haibun for My Sister’s Birthday
• Haibun Collaboration
• Glitter
• The Evil Thereof
• Protest
• Persephone
• Halfway
• What I Lost
• I Forgot His Name a Long Time Ago
• …and change
  

Haiku Sequences and Linked Verse

• The Empty Mall
• questions
• Yotsumono: Tendrils of Ivy (with William Sorlien)
• Yotsumono: Drifting Clouds (with William Sorlien)
• Yotsumono: Summer Moon (with William Sorlien)
• Yotsumono: Heat Wave (with William Sorlien)
• In the Shallows (a junicho renku with Aubrie Cox)
• Summer Visitors (a junicho renku with Ashley Capes and Max Stites)
• NaHaiWriMo in April
• Shared Water: a renku (with notes) (with Steve Mitchell)
• Indecision (Rain All Night)
• rain, rain (rain, rain)
• After Life
• Sick child sequence
• Another inadvertent sequence (Full Moon)
• Left Behind
• My father
• Oh please/ like THIS/ is a haiku?
• Russian memories
• The Scottish Play
• Bedtime sequence
• A story in eleven haiku and one photograph
• Seasonal mathematics
• feeling gendai. ish. and hot.
• Domestic novel sequence
• Webbing (A Sequence)
• what I wrote/(in a tiny red notebook)/when I couldn’t sleep
• Worms
• Blue
• Bees
• Fireflies and Freedom
• Heat
• Full Moon Last Night
• Hiroshima Day
• Saturdays, 11 to 5
• Labor Day
• Summer’s End
• Boundary Waters
• Geese Fly
• Three Lines, Three Poems
• Listening Wind
• Boo
• The Front Yard, After the Frost But Before the Snow
• Pseudohaiku: Search Strings
• Machine Language
• Veterans Day
• Basho and Me
• Department/of Redundancy/Department
• It’s Not Frozen Yet
• Straggling Geese
• 1 line, 3 lines, 2 lines, 4
• Your Mother Should Know
• My True Love Said
• July in December
• Okay, Now It’s Frozen
• Constellations
• Nativity
• Moon Marathon
• First Snow
• More Moon
• Different Melodies
• Belated Rabbits
• Bird Calls
• Robots
• First Snow (again)
• The Cold
• For Japan
• Monostich
• Monostich, Revisited
• Marigolds

Found Haiku

• Found haiku: Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Found haiku: Thoreau
• Wallace Stevens: Found haiku, and a poetic tribute
• Found haiku: Macbeth
• Found haiku: Psalms