Author Description

Dr. Randy Brooks has taught haiku courses, the Global Haiku Tradition and Haiku Writing Roundtable, at Millikin since 1998. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology is a collection of the best of the best haiku by current and former undergraduate students at Millikin University. The anthology includes award-winning haiku and haiku previously published in a wide range of literary journals. It also features new haiku from the Millikin haiku community through an open submissions process. See a daily sample of the haiku in the anthology at Haiku of the Day at the Bronze Man Books web site. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology provides a much-needed collection of contemporary English-language haiku for use in secondary and college level classrooms. While students of all ages enjoy contemporary haiku, Bronze Man Books believes that the haiku published in this anthology resonate with high school and college-age students attempting to learn more about the English-language haiku. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology is the natural consequence of an ongoing celebration of the art of reading and writing haiku at Millikin University over the last 10 years. The haiku in this collection have been born as selected favorites by a variety of readers. Initially, the student writer selected his or her own haiku attempts to be considered for competition, then the best of their attempts were placed into anonymous kukai, where students in classes selected favorites. At the end of the semester, each student writer created a small collection of personal favorites to share with others. And at the end of each semester, I selected a few of the best of each student s haiku to be added to the Millikin University Haiku web site. As evident from the acknowledgements page, editors in the haiku community have selected many of these student haiku to be published in their journals and anthologies. Finally, the editors of this collection read through all of the known and submitted hai