tempslibres - free times

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A bilingual project (French and English), a bridge between the international community and the French speaking world. Theory and practice, rules, references texts, essays and articles, information, annotated links, bibliography. Weekly pages in native languages, haiga, haiku collections, personal subsites. More than 5000 haiku from all regions of the world. The project is devoted to the haiku written "Here and now". tempslibres - free times is not a publication site, a magazine or a journal.

Since September 1999.

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Haiku database

The only haiku database of the world usable for statistical researchs (words frequencies, semantic proximity, words cloud, author's mental maps, comparison of words frequencies between geographical, cultural zones...). The haiku are indexed based on a manually controlled language, ensuring appropriate use semantics.
But also a second level of indexing allows to discover and explore the mechanisms used in the haiku writing. Its physical structure, the organization of the discourse, its visible driving elements (interactions between images) and underlying driving elements (dialectics and archetypes). (2013-02-09)

What is changing on the site ...

What's new ? : journal of the site
My favourites : this fourtnight, Archives
Site author's haiku : the year in haiku.

Developments : The new sections.
Links to book reviews

Events

Cindy Lynn Zackowitz (in memorial) (2012-10-20)

Ghent, Belgium - International Haiku Festival - 13-19 September 2010.

Archives ...

To learn : Theory and practice

A library of texts, to discover how haiku is written, but also to think about its writing. Opposed points of vue, to let readers free to define their own views.

- Reference texts
- Information (Glossary, saijiki)
- Haiku definitions
- The practice of haiku
- Essays, articles
- Researchs tools
- Studies on haiku
- On Publication ...
- Classic Japanese Haiku
- Haiku Databases

Notes personnelles d'écriture

Un kit - livret ressources pour débuter en haïku...

Haïku : Une approche par les contraintes. Un livre de théorie sur la composition du haïku. Première présentation au Camp Haïku de Baie Comeau 2007.

- Annotated links
- Annotated bibliography

- Renku

To read ...

Pages of writing

Sequences, Offprints
Thematic pages

Index of onsite authors (seq. only)
Authors'  locations

Author's pages

Authors (known or beginners) I like very much.

Authors' collections

Authors' collections

Author's site

Some steps with :
Marjorie Buetner (USA)
Ion Codrescu (Roumanie)
Paul David Mena (Boston,USA)
Cindy Zackowitz (Alaska, USA)

Online collections, books on TL and on the internet

Online books freely readable and downloadable.
Books to leaf through, wonderful collections, for the pleasure of reading ...

Review of publications ...

Haiku Database

Searchable database of this site haiku (by author, language, semantic words, style device, theme...) and a page by author.

To discover ...

Bibliographie du haïku en français

First bibliography of the haiku in French

The world seen by women, its sensitivity, the different look over the things

Children Haiku

Books, articles, links

A window to the French speaking world

Quelques revues francophones publiant des haïku.
des associations, liens et notes sur le haïku francophone

A window to the Russian haiku ...

A new section to discover Russian haiku, but also publications and sites.

A window to the contemporary Japan ...

- A window to Japan, to help to understand the Japanese contemporary haiku, its writing, and to discover what is written today ...

African and African-American Haiku ...

- A section about African and African-American haiku

Erotic Haiku

- A section to discover what is possible in haiku... In French but with many English translations
L'érotique - Recueil sous la direction de Micheline Beaudry et Janick Belleau

Haiku during wartime ...

At War ... Anthology of Haiku during wartime

Haiku from Islam

Haiku from Islam

Haiku in practice...

Haiku in action...

- The haiku is sometimes written in situations of moral or physical distress, of emotional shock, of war or social collapse ... Articles, essays, uses, accounts.

Hurricane !

Hurricanes in haiku 2011-09-25

Global warming

Global Warm/ning ! : traces in our haiku writing.

On other sites ...

The haiku as a protest : Marlene Mountain

Shiki-temp A temporary mailing list that preserved the Shiki List Spirit during it closure(2001-2002)
More information ...

Colophon

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e-Poetry : we share emotion
Important note : free times is not a publication site, a magazine or a journal. It is an information place for all about the haiku. All haiku are collected on mailing-lists, or sent for sharing by authors.

Yahoo.fr site of the week of Oct 15th 1999