{"id":8856,"date":"2008-02-04T11:02:45","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T16:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/02\/04\/check-out-the-american-haiku-archi"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:53:33","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:53:33","slug":"check-out-the-american-haiku-archives-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2008\/02\/04\/check-out-the-american-haiku-archives-website\/","title":{"rendered":"check out the American Haiku Archives website"},"content":{"rendered":"

T<\/strong><\/em>he American Haiku Archives<\/a><\/strong> launched its website on February 1, 1008. At the site, I learned that<\/p>\n

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“The American Haiku Archives is the world\u2019s largest public collection of haiku and related poetry books and papers outside Japan. This repository is housed at the California State Library in Sacramento, California, and is dedicated to preserving the history of North American haiku.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

<\/a> Garry Gay<\/a> and Randy Brooks<\/a> are co-chairs of the AHA advisory board. Brooks designed the site, and Michael Dylan Welch<\/a> is the webmaster. Click to learn how to do online research<\/a> at AHA. The Archives is seeking donors<\/a> to help support its mission<\/a>, which includes “promotion of haiku and related poetry as a vital component of literature in the English language.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Go here<\/a>, for answers to Frequently Asked Questions, and find a link for sending additional queries to Michael Dylan Welch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

tai chi
\nwith my wife . . .
\nmorning glories open<\/p>\n

school\u2019s out\u2014
\na boy follows his dog
\ninto the woods<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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creek water warm . . .
\nI swing the grapevine
\nup to my cousin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

……………………………………….. by Randy Brooks <\/font><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

first star\u2014
\na sea shell held
\nto my baby\u2019s ear<\/p>\n

after the quake
\nthe weathervane
\npointing to earth<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\n

warm winter evening\u2014
\nthe chairs askew
\nafter the poetry reading<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

…………………………………………… by Michael Dylan Welch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Note<\/em>: the original publishers of the above poems were not credited at the AHA website.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

B<\/em><\/strong>est wishes and thanks to all those working to make the American Haiku Archives a success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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