{"id":35149,"date":"2020-08-31T20:03:20","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T00:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimk7.sg-host.com\/?page_id=35149"},"modified":"2025-09-22T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T21:44:10","slug":"new-to-the-haiku-foundation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/new-to-the-haiku-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"New to The Haiku Foundation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]\n<h2>You&#8217;ve come to the right place!<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/about-thf\/\">About the Haiku Foundation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/about-thf\/policies\/\">Review Our Code of Conduct &amp; Other Site Policies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/how-to-find-things-on-our-site\/\">How to Find Things on Our Site<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>New to Haiku?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/welcome-to-new-to-haiku\/\">New to Haiku<\/a> blog series<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/contemporary-haiku\/\">Contemporary Haiku<\/a>, an introduction<\/li>\n<li>Watch this video:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" title=\"YouTube video player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BYWPRAfxi7M?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Submit Haiku and Related Works<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/haiku-dialogue\/\">Haiku Dialogue<\/a>. Offers a triweekly prompt for practicing your haiku.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/thf-monthly-kukai\/\">THF Monthly Kukai<\/a>. Craft a poem to the month\u2019s theme, then assess the roster of poems by others on that theme.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/virals\/\">re:Virals.<\/a> Submit commentary on selected haiku each week.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/haiga-galleries\/\">Haiga Galleries<\/a>. Submit haiga (haiku painting) for display in our galleries.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/haikulife-the-haiku-foundation-video-project\/\">HaikuLife Haiku Film Festival<\/a>. Submit your haiku film for the festival.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/renku-sessions\/\">The Renku Sessions.<\/a> Participate in 12, 20 and 36-link renku, moderated by the leading Western\u00a0<em>sabaki<\/em>\u00a0of our day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/earthrise-rolling-haiku-collaboration\/\">EarthRise Rolling Haiku Collaboration.<\/a> The world\u2019s largest annual collaborative poem. It\u2019s part of International Haiku Poetry Day (April 17), and plays out like an extended renku \u2014 the literary drinking game of feudal Japan.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Read Haiku and Related Works<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/omeka\/\">Digital Library<\/a>. The Haiku Foundation\u2019s digital collection of books and other holdings. See also <a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/chapbook-archive\/\">Book-of-the-Week<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/librarians-cache\/\">Librarian\u2019s Cache<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/learn\/the-haiku-foundation-education-wall\/\">Education Resources<\/a>. A library of lesson plans and other resources for learning about haiku.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/events\/\">Events Calendar<\/a>. Haiku-related awards, competitions, and events.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/haiku-for-healing\/\">Haiku for Healing<\/a>. Explore the potential of haiku as a tool for healing in a range of diverse circumstances such as physical illness, bereavement, estrangement and displacement. Hosted by\u00a0Sonam Chhoki.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Haiku of the Day.<\/strong> Guest editors curate thematic collections of poems for display on our home page. See also the <a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/daily-haiku-archive\/\">Haiku of the Day Archive<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/haiku-outside-the-box\/\">Haiku Outside the Box<\/a>. Way beyond a few words on a screen or in the pages of a book.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/haiku-registry\/\">Haiku Registry.<\/a> Biographies of contemporary haiku poets.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/category\/features\/haikupedia\/\">Haikupedia<\/a>. The Haiku Foundation\u2019s encyclopedia of haiku. Definitions, biographies, famous places, and important books from around the world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/juxta\/\">Juxtapositions.<\/a> The research and scholarship journal of The Haiku Foundation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/publications\/\">Publications.<\/a> Books published by The Foundation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/touchstone-awards\/\">The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Awards.<\/a> Recognizing excellence and innovation in the haiku genre.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thehaikufoundation.org\/site-archive\/\">Archived Haiku Sites<\/a>. An archive of classic haiku sites no longer available elsewhere.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr style=\"height: 1px; background-color: black; border: none;\" \/>\n<p><em>What else would you like to see on this page to introduce you to The Foundation and haiku? 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