featured essays

Modern Haiku Press is pleased to share some featured essays from each issue
starting with Modern Haiku 32.2, Summer 2001, through the present issue.

 

author. "Essay." Modern Haiku xx.x, season year.

Agostini, Bertran. "The Development of French Haiku in the First Half of the 20th Century: Historical Perspectives." Modern Haiku 32.2, Summer 2001.

Antolin, Susan. "Haiku Aesthetics: A Look at Understatement." Modern Haiku 47.3, Autumn 2016.

Baker, Stewart, C. "Objects Coloured by Subjective Feeling: Hagiwara Sakutaro and Haiku." Modern Haiku 52.3, Autumn 2021.

Barnhill, David Landis. "A Reply to Jim Kacian's 'Realism Is Dead (and Always Was)'." Modern Haiku 47.3, Autumn 2016.

Beach, Clayton. "Gendai Haiku: A Short History of the Modern Haiku" Modern Haiku 50.2, Summer 2019.

Bennett, Brad. "Children's Haiku Books: An Annotated Bibliography." Modern Haiku 46.3, Autumn 2015.

Bennett, Brad. "Euphony in Haiku." Modern Haiku 53.1, Winter-Spring 2022.

Bennett, Brad. "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia." Modern Haiku 52.1, Winter-Spring 2021.

Bennett, Brad. "The Length of Fudgesicle." Modern Haiku 55.1, Winter-Spring 2024.

Bennett, Brad. "Prepositions in Haiku." Modern Haiku 54.1, Winter-Spring 2023.

Brooks, Randy. "Haiku How-to Books: Retrospective Reviews." Modern Haiku 49.1, Winter-Spring 2018.

Brooks, Randy. "The Haiku Poetics of Paul O. Williams: The Art of Discovering an Aura." Modern Haiku 48.3, Autumn 2017.

Brooks, Randy. "The Love Haiku of Raymond Roseliep." Modern Haiku 40.3, Autumn 2009.

Brooks, Randy. "Personae: Narrative Voices in the Haiku of Raymond Roseliep." Modern Haiku 54.2, Summer 2023.

Brooks, Randy. "A Tumbly Life of Haiku: Reading Robert Spiess." Modern Haiku 42.2, Summer 2011.

Brower, Gary L. "Paz/Haiku/Dialectic." Modern Haiku 44.2, Summer 2013.

Buettner, Marjorie. "The Return Message: A Pilgrim’s Way of Longing." Modern Haiku 40.1, Winter-Spring 2009.

Burleigh, David. "Haiku: Who's Counting?" Modern Haiku 53.2, Summer 2022.

Burleigh, David. "Loss and Betrayal: Some Little Pitfalls of Translation." Modern Haiku 49.2, Summer 2018.

Cariello, Matthew M. "The Contiguous Image: Mapping Metaphor in Haiku." Modern Haiku 41.2, Summer 2010.

Chambers, Paul. "The Haiku of Federico Garcia Lorca." Modern Haiku 49.2, Summer 2018.

Earner, Joseph. "Senryu As An Art Form." Modern Haiku 44.1, Winter-Spring 2013.

Epstein, Robert. "Freshness in Haiku is Never Normative: A Reply to Lee Gurga." Modern Haiku 52.3, Autumn, 2021.

Epstein, Robert. "Haiku and the Ordeal of Moving." Modern Haiku 55.1, Winter-Spring 2024.

Epstein, Robert. "Haiku Questions: A Portal into Mystery." Modern Haiku 51.2, Summer 2020.

Epstein, Robert. "Motherloss and Mourning Haiku." Modern Haiku 49.3, Autumn 2018.

Epstein, Robert. "Recovering the Suchness of Things in Haiku." Modern Haiku 49.1, Winter-Spring 2018.

Gage, Joshua. "An Exploration of mono no aware in the Sckfaiku of Deborah P Kolodji. Modern Haiku 54.3, Autumn 2023.

Gilbert, Richard. "A New Haiku Era: Non-season Kigo in the Gendai Haiku Saijiki." Modern Haiku 37.2, Summer 2006.

Grayson, David. "Ambassador of Haiku: The Poetry of Garry Gay." Modern Haiku 50.1, Winter-Spring 2019.

Grayson, David. "The 'Ancient Enemy': Death in Art and Haiku." Modern Haiku 41.1, Winter-Spring 2010.

Grayson, David. "Urban Bathing: Haiku and Senryu of the City." Modern Haiku 54.1, Winter-Spring 2023.

Greenwood, David. "Falling Rocks and the Poetry of Paul O. Williams." Modern Haiku 55.1, Winter-Spring 2024.

Gurga, Lee. "Normative Haiku and Beyond." Modern Haiku 52.2, Summer 2021.

Higginson, William J. "A Poet's Haiku: Paul Muldoon." Modern Haiku 35.2, Summer 2004.

Higginson, William J. and Penny Harter. "Haiku Is Mainstream." Modern Haiku 37.7, Autumn 2006.

Ifshin, Hisako and Leza Lowitz. "Haiku by Itaru Ina." Modern Haiku 34.2, Summer 2003.

Kacian, Jim. "Realism Is Dead (and Always Was)." Modern Haiku 47.2, Summer 2016.

Kacian, Jim. "The Shape of Things to Come." Modern Haiku 43.3, Autumn 2012.

Kacian, Jim. "UFOs in Haiku." Modern Haiku 45.2, Summer 2014.

Kai, Hasegawa. "The Haiku Universe: On Nature." Translated by Cheryl A. Crowley. Modern Haiku 47.3, Autumn 2016.

Klacsanzky, Nicholas. "Shining Wheat Fields: Haiku in Ukraine." Modern Haiku 54.3, Autumn 2023.

Lanoue, David G. "Becoming a Child: Issa's Poetic Consciousness." Modern Haiku 46.3, Autumn 2015.

Lanoue, David G. "Something with Wings: Fay Aoyagi's Haiku of Inner Landscape." Modern Haiku 40.2, Summer 2009.

Lanoue, David G. "Stories behind the Haiku: Cultural Memory in Issa." Modern Haiku 44.3, Autumn 2013.

Lanoue, David G. "What Love Has to Do with It: The Relationship Requirement in Renku." Modern Haiku 52.1, Winter-Spring 2021.

Lindquist, Kristen. "Embracing the Moon: Haiku About Drinking." Modern Haiku 51.3, Autumn 2020.

Lindquist, Kristen. "It's Not All Black and White: A Consideration of Crow Haiku." Modern Haiku 53.3, Autumn 2022.

Miller, Paul. "The Blue Print (1966-1969)." Modern Haiku 53.3, Autumn 2022.

Miller, Paul. "Brief History of Wind Chimes (1981-1989)." Modern Haiku 52.2, Summer 2021.

Miller, Paul. "Ground Control to the Flying Pope." Modern Haiku 41.3, Fall 2010.

Miller, Paul. "The Haiku of Hal Roth (1931-2023)." Modern Haiku 54.2, Summer 2023.

Miller, Paul. "Haiku Toolbox: Dangling Participles (or Happy Participle Accidents)." Modern Haiku 46.2, Summer 2015.

Miller, Paul. "Haiku Toolbox: Similes Real and Implied." Modern Haiku 52.2, Summer 2021.

Miller, Paul. "Haiku Toolbox: Some Thoughts on Cutting." Modern Haiku 48.2, Summer 2017.

Miller, Paul. "The Haiku of Julien Vocance (Part I)." Haiku translated by David Burleigh. Modern Haiku 50.1, Winter-Spring 2019.

Miller, Paul. "The Haiku of Julien Vocance (Part II)." Haiku translated by David Burleigh. Modern Haiku 50.2, Summer 2019.

Miller, Paul Russell. "Out of the Mist: The Haiku of O Mabson Southard." Modern Haiku 42.3, Autumn 2011.

Miller, Shawnrece D. "Female Images in Richard Wright’s Haiku: This Other World." Modern Haiku 32.3, Fall 2001.

Minear, Richard H. "The Proletarian Senryu of Tsuru Akira." Modern Haiku 44.1, Winter-Spring 2013.

Mitsutani, Margaret. "Essential Haiku and Nagata Kôi." Modern Haiku 33.1, Winter-Spring 2002.

Philippou, Dru. "Haiku Geometry." Modern Haiku 38.1, Winter-Spring 2007.
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Philippou, Dru. "HaikuHolograms." Modern Haiku 43.1, Winter-Spring 2012.

Reichhold, Jane. "Should Senryu Be Part of English-language Haiku?" Modern Haiku 44.1, Winter Spring 2013.

Root-Bernstein, Michele. "Copying to Create: The Role of Imitation and Emulation in Developing Haiku Craft." Modern Haiku 48.1, Winter-Spring 2017.

Ross, Bruce. "The Essence of Haiku." Modern Haiku 38.3, Autumn 2007.

Ross, Bruce. "Haiku Mainstream: The Path of Traditional Haiku in America" Modern Haiku 43.2, Summer 2012.

Rowland, Philip. "From Haiku to the Short Poem: Bridging the Divide." Modern Haiku 39.3, Autumn 2008.

Sagan, Miriam. "The Haiku of Philip Whalen." Modern Haiku 39.1, Spring 2008.

Saito, Masaya. "A Short Biography of Hino Sojo with Selected Haiku." Modern Haiku 53.2, Summer 2022.

Saito, Masaya. "A Short Biography of Tomita Moppo with Selected Haiku." Modern Haiku 50.3, Autumn 2019.

Sato, Hiroaki. "A Brief Survey of Senryû by Women." Modern Haiku 34.1, Spring, 2003.

Sato, Hiroaki. "Gendai Haiku: What is It?" Modern Haiku 44.2, Summer 2013.

Snyder, Gary. "The Path to Matsuyama." Modern Haiku 36.2, Summer 2005.

Spiess, Robert. "A Bit of Autobiography." Modern Haiku 33.3, Autumn 2002.

Spikes, Mike. "Haiku and Deconstruction."Modern Haiku 45.1, Winter-Spring 2014.

Spikes, Mike. "Haiku and Defamiliarization." Modern Haiku 48.1, Winter-Spring 2017.

Spikes, Mike. "Haiku and Ockham's Razor: The Example of Jack Kerouac." Modern Haiku 44.2, Summer 2013.

Spikes, Mike. "Wolfgang Iser and Haiku." Modern Haiku 49.3, Autumn 2018.

Stewart, C. Baer. "Fishing for Bashôs: Communities and Haiku in English." Modern Haiku 46.1, Winter-Spring 2015.

Trumbull, Charles. "The American Haiku Movement Part 1." Modern Haiku 36.3, Autumn 2005.

Trumbull, Charles. "The American Haiku Movement Part 2." Modern Haiku 37.1, Autumn 2005.

Trumbull, Charles. "Black Haiku: The Uses of Haiku by African American Poets, Part 1." Modern Haiku 47.1, Winter-Spring 2016.

Trumbull, Charles. "Black Haiku: The Uses of Haiku by African American Poets, Part 2." Modern Haiku 47.2, Summer 2016.

Trumbull, Charles. "Haiku Hoaxes." Modern Haiku 45.3, Autumn 2014.

Trumbull, Charles. "The Uses of Haiku: Native American Writers, Part 1." Modern Haiku 48.3, Autumn 2017.

Trumbull, Charles. "The Uses of Haiku: Native American Writers, Part 2." Modern Haiku 49.1, Winter-Spring 2018.

Van den Heuvel, Cor. "American Haiku's Future." Modern Haiku 34.3, Autumn 2003.

Van den Heuvel, Cor. "Lafcadio Hearn and Haiku." Modern Haiku 33.2, Summer 2002.

Verhart, Max. "The Essence of Haiku as Perceived by Western Haijin." Modern Haiku 38.2, Summer 2007.

Welch, Michael Dylan. "Haiku and the Art of Forest Bathing." Modern Haiku 51.1, Winter-Spring 2020.

Welch, Michael Dylan. "The Haiku Gatekeeper: An Interview with Robert Spiess." Modern Haiku 33.3, Autumn 2002.

Welch, Michael Dylan. "Haiku Stances." Modern Haiku 48.2, Summer 2017.

Welch, Michael Dylan. "Quiet Souls." Modern Haiku 52.3, Autumn 2021.

Whitcomb, Amy. "The Canon's Undercurrents: A Survey of Haiku Aesthetics in American Nature Writing." Modern Haiku 48.1, Winter-Spring 2017.

Yoshimura, Ikuyo. "Kidong Kang: The Haiku Autobiography of a Korean Japanese." Modern Haiku 35.1, Winter-Spring 2004.

Yoshimura, Ikuyo. "Kato Somo, the First Japanese Haikuist to Visit the United States." Modern Haiku 29.2, Summer 2008.

Zimmerman, J. "A Challenge to Try Fixed-Form Haiku." Modern Haiku 49.2, Summer 2018.

Zimmerman, J. "Gender of Haiku Poets Published in Journals: Game-on, Ladies?" Modern Haiku 51.3, Autumn 2020.

Zuk, Edward. "William Carlos Williams and Haiku." Modern Haiku 44.2, Summer 2013.

author. "Essay." Modern Haiku xx.x, season, year.

 

 

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