Very little has been done in the way of informed critical study of the haibun form, particularly when compared with the number of haiku studies.
While there’s been a good deal of emphasis in haibun about the importance of the link between the haibun’s prose and the link-shift with it’s important little sidekick, the haiku, almost nothing has been explored about how a haibun title might similarly link-shift with the haibun prose and haiku.
This is strange because in most other writing genres, there’s a good deal of information about the importance of titles and how to create a good one.
Read more to explore why titles make a difference and the options open to haibun poets -> The Importance of Titles in Haibun
Ray Rasmussen: All Things Haibun Blog 