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Defining Haiku

As challenging as it is to try to cage a wild tiger, one can never underestimate the many ways that haiku is manifesting itself outside of Japanese language and culture yet still retaining a clear haiku scent. This section of the anthology presents a number of people, who are  actively involved in the art of haiku, offering definitions of just what a haiku is globally in these first decades of the 21st century.

Articles
Title
Haiku in English – A General Guide to Genre Distinction (by Richard Gilbert)
Haiku: The Art of Implication over Explication (by Alan Summers)
Creative Corner (by Mike Rehling)
A Place to Start (by Michael Dylan Welch)
Haiku Outside of Definition (by Jim Kacian)
Evolving Consciousness (by Marlene Mountain)
The DNA of Hokku (by Don Baird)
From Then to Now: What Haiku Means to Me (by Kala Ramesh)
Haiku: A Poetry Beyond Compare (by Hansha Teki)
The Natural World as Perceived Around Us (by Jane Reichhold)
Concision (by Cynthia Rowe)
On What Is Haiku (by Sydell Gasnick-Rosenberg)
The Simplicity and Depth of Haiku (by Charlotte Digregorio)
Undefinable (by Johannes S. H. Bjerg)
Haiku Is (by Sheila Windsor)
The Romance of Endings in Haiku (by Richard Gilbert)
The Ethos of Haiku (by H.F. Noyes)
Out of Many, One (by Jacob Salzer)
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