About this Blog

Welcome

My intent is to show examples and to discuss contemporary English-language haibun (a mix of title, prose & haiku) and haiku (haibun prose’s little partner). I will also include duscussions and examples of haibun’s close relative, tanka prose (title, prose, tanka)

The menu at the top leads and the categories list on the right leads you to examples of my published haibun, and articles, commentaries and reviews about both genres. As well through the commentaries, I’ll provide examples of haibun that I consider to be exemplary and comments on the haibun and travel journals of the Japanese masters like Basho and Issa.

In putting this together, I’m drawing from my 20 plus years of writing in these genres and serving as an editor of the journals that publish them.

I’ve helped develop and currently am editorially associated with Contemporary Haibun Online.

I welcome dialogue, comments and questions, back and forth, should you care to contribute. However, this is not a place to submit your work for publication.

I am willing to do a limited amount of coaching. my email is HERE.

And as a bit of background, I live at times in a rural area near Acton, Ontario and at times in the city of Edmonton, Alberta. And a large amount of my year is spent in wilderness settings with my partner Nancy. We hiking in the Canadian Rockies and in the canyon country of Utah, canoeing in Algonquin Provincial Park, and bicycling in the rolling hill country of Halton Hills, Ontario and in Edmonton Alberta’s great bicycle trails. My personal homepage is Raysweb: Photography and Haiku Poetry.

~ Ray Rasmussen