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I know this is probably a bit late, but I noticed the link to one of the articles from the haijinx archives.

Quoting myself ("A Lost Introduction")

Indeed, clarifying this split between haiku and senryû is one of the primary goals of haijinx. The "hai" in haiku is "playful" or "humorous" and we wish to highlight this particular feature. There is simply no hai in haiku without some sense of humor, lightness, or playfulness. We are not alone in this belief. Famed translator R.H. Blyth, in Haiku, Volume One: Eastern Culture (The Hokuseido Press, Tokyo, 1949), defines several key characteristics of haiku. Humor is first on that list. Akito Arima, the past president of the Haiku International Association, writes in the preface to A Hidden Pond (Kadokawa Shoten, Japan, 1997) that "[t]he universal character of haiku may be due to the fact that they always contain a sense of humor, as well as scenes of nature and daily life, things appreciated by anybody." This list of primarily Japanese experts could go on.

— Mark Brooks, A Lost Introduction
http://www.haijinx.org/quarterly/a-lost-introduction/

haijinx IV:1 includes Frank Dullaghan's new article, "Humour, Life and Haiku"

http://www.haijinx.org/IV-1/articles/dullaghan.humour.html

And while there have not been many recent articles on hai, humor and haiku in haijinx, the archive boasts the thoughts of several poets on the topic.


haijinx I:1 (Spring 2001)


Susumu Takiguchi — Sense of Humour: The Forgotten Prerequisite of Haiku
http://www.haijinx.org/I-1/articles/takiguchi.html

Nobuyuki Yuasa — Laughter in Japanese Haiku (reprint)
http://www.haijinx.org/I-1/articles/yuasa-p1.html

Wiliam J Higginson — Humor in Bashô's Hokku I: The Childlike
http://www.haijinx.org/I-1/articles/higginson.html

Serge Tomé — Humour in the Western Haiku
http://www.haijinx.org/I-1/articles/tome-p1.html

Michael Dylan Welch — The Difference Between Haiku and Senryu
http://www.haijinx.org/I-1/articles/welch.html

John Crook — Humour in Haiku
http://www.haijinx.org/I-1/crook/index.html

Ikuyo Yoshimura — haiku with humour
http://www.haijinx.org/I-1/yoshimura/index.html


haijinx I:2 (Summer 2001)


Wiliam J Higginson — Humor in Bashô's Hokku II: Playing in the Tradition
http://www.haijinx.org/I-2/articles/higginson.html

David G Lanoue — Issa's Comic Vision
http://www.haijinx.org/I-2/articles/lanoue.html

Ryu Yotsuya — Humor and Kusatao's Haiku
http://www.haijinx.org/I-2/articles/yotsuya.eng.html

Randy Brooks — Consonance as the Genesis of Humor in Haiku
http://www.haijinx.org/I-2/brooks/index.html

David Cobb — Humour in Haiku
http://www.haijinx.org/I-2/cobb/index.html

Dhugal Lindsay — Humour in Haijin
http://www.haijinx.org/I-2/lindsay/index.html


haijinx II:1 (Spring 2002)


Patrick Gallagher — Tell About the Truth As If It Were False
http://www.haijinx.org/II-1/articles/gallagher.html

Wiliam J Higginson — Humor in Bashô's Hokku III: Cosmic Humor
http://www.haijinx.org/II-1/articles/higginson.html

Janice Bostok — To Laugh Or To Cry
http://www.haijinx.org/II-1/bostok/index.html

Peggy Willis Lyles — What's So Funny?
http://www.haijinx.org/II-1/lyles/index.html

haijinx IV:2 [northern summer • june solstice • southern winter]

haijinx publishes around the solstices and equinoxes. The next issue, haijinx IV:2, will be released shortly after the solstice in June. The deadline is May 21st.

submissions

We accept original, unpublished haiku (preferably between 5 and 10 at a time), renga & renku, and haiga & sumi-e. We will also accept previously published work in these categories, but please include the publication information at the time you submit your work and do not submit work currently under consideration elsewhere. Please make sure that each submission contains a majority of unpublished work. Non-English works may be submitted with translation. We will publish them in both English and their native language. If you do not have a translation, contact us to see if we know of a translator who might work with you.

We are always looking for articles on haiku, even from authors who disagree with us. Please contact us with your article ideas beforehand.

The deadline is May 21st and submissions may be sent to our central address

submissions – at – haijinx dot org

For all of the details, please visit:

http://www.haijinx.org/submissions/

haibun

You may submit up to 2 haibun per issue directly to editor Roberta Beary. No single haibun should exceed 150 words. We do not consider any haibun that has been previously published or accepted for publication in any form. We do not consider any unpublished haibun which include  previously published haiku or haiku which have been accepted for publication.

Please submit your best work in the body of an email to

shortpoems at gmail.com

with 'haijinx haibun submission' and your name in the subject line.

latest issue

Our most recent issue, haijinx IV:1, released in March 2011, features over 200 poems from over 50 poets.

http://www.haijinx.org/IV-1/

The main section consists of 25 pages of haiku, 8 of haibun & 4 of haiga. There's 6 pages of news, three haikai articles, four reviews & a multi-part special on NaHaiWriMo. Art from kris moon throughout. Contributors to that issue included Don Baird, Helen Buckingham, Marjorie Buettner, Ellen Compton, Cherie Hunter Day, Frank Dullaghan, Curtis Dunlap, Lorin Ford, Carolyn Hall, Michele L. Harvey, Jim Kacian, Michael Ketchek, Jacek Margolak, Michael Morell, Peter Newton, Kala Ramesh, Miriam Sagan, Shimi, Kuniharu Shimizu, Michael Dylan Welch, Billie Wilson, Robert D Wilson, & more.

http://www.haijinx.org/IV-1/contributors.html

deadline recap

Thanks for reading this far. As a reminder, the deadline for haijinx IV:2 is May 21st and submissions may be sent to our central address

submissions – at – haijinx dot org

For all of the details, please visit:

http://www.haijinx.org/submissions/


Cheers,

Mark

Hey, thanks Don! Glad to have had two of your haiku in there.

Best wishes, Mark

Thanks, John! Thanks, cat!

I'm glad you enjoyed the issue...and we're open for submissions now through May 21...so there's much time left.

Cheers,

Mark

Hi folks!

We just released haijinx IV:1 yesterday and would love for you to have a look.

There's 200+ poems from over 60 poets. The main section contains 25 pages of haiku, 8 of haibun & 4 of haiga. There's 6 pages of news, three articles, four reviews & a multi-part special on NaHaiWriMo. Art from kris moon throughout.

Editors for the issue included Mark Brooks, Alan Summers, Carmen Sterba, Roberta Beary, kris moon, Meilssa Allen and our guest Tom Clausen. Special section on NaHaiWriMo from Aubrie Cox.

http://www.haijinx.org/IV-1/

Next issue's guest editor will be Aubrie Cox and kris moon will start as renga/renku editor for that issue too. Open for submissions now through May 21.

http://www.haijinx.org/submissions/

Thanks!

Mark Brooks
creator of haijinx