Index of online essays


On Aozora site :

Haiku and the Balkans

Jim Kacian's speech about Balkan Haiku at the Global Haiku Festival, 15th April 2000, Decatur, Illinois, USA

The "Webolution" of Haiku by William J. Higginson ( Excerpts from the Keynote Address at the Global Haiku Conference, Millikin University, 15 April 2000 ) 

Haiku and the perception of the world

Towards a new perception of reality (Alain Kervern, France) in Knots Anthology

Ecstasy of the Moment and the Depth of Time :by Dusan Pajin (Yugoslavia)

Haiku Writing

What you say is what you are. by Max Verhart

Haiku as a world phenomenon

Multiculturalism in practice - The World Haiku Movement - an article from Dusan Pajin, Yugoslavia

Tapping the Common Well (Jim Kacian, USA) in Knots Anthology

Universalism vs. Particularism in International Haiku
(Richard Gilbert, Ph.D. Kumamoto, Japan) in Haiku Novine

Beyond Kigo: Haiku in the Next Millennium  (Jim Kacian, USA) in Haiku Moment 

Haiku As a World Phenomenon : Article from Ginyu N°.5, by Susumu Takiguchi

Can the Spirit of  Haiku be translated ? By Susumu Takiguchi

The many shapes of the scarecrow by Max Verhart (The Netherlands)

Multiculturalism of World Haiku - Cross-Cultural and Personal Meaning by Dusan Pajin (Yugoslavia) (WORLD HAIKU FESTIVAL - LONDON-OXFORD, Aug. 25-30, 2000)

Haiku in the world

Haiku in the Netherlands and in Flanders : by Max Verhart

On other sites

Haiku about almost Nothing in New Hope International pages (Max Verhart, Netherlands)

Links to some reference texts

The Void as a haiku concept by Serge Tomé

Notes for New Haiku Writers in Western Countries by Horst E. Ludwig