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Journals

The following are my favorite haiku, tanka, and haibun journals.

Clicking on the journal name will take you straight to their website.

Frogpond 

Frogpond is the journal of the Haiku Society of America and publishes haiku, haibun, rengay or other short sequences, renku or other long sequences, essays, book reviews, and books for review

The Heron’s Nest

"The Heron's Nest, founded in 1999, is a quarterly online journal. A new edition is published during the first week of March, June, September, and December. We publish multiple pages of fine haiku in each issue, plus three Editors' Choice Haiku; one of which is presented with the Heron's Nest Award, and receives special commentary. The Heron's Nest also appears in a single annual paper edition anthology each April." (Source: https://www.theheronsnest.com/index.html)

Under the Basho

Under the Basho publishes modern haiku, poet's personal best, hokku, one-line haiku, ku, linked forms, tanka, haibun, haiga & visual haiku, essays & features.

Chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum publishes haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, haibun (and occasionally collaborative poetry).

Modern Haiku

Modern Haiku publishes haiku, senryu and haibun (also most essays, book reviews, haiga, and cover artwork are specifically commissioned by the editors)

Atlas Poetica

Atlas Poetica publishes tanka poetry of place (including waka, kyoka, gogyoshi, and tanka written in variant forms)

Haiku Commentary: digging deep into the small things

"A weekly (more or less) publication that was made to help people learn more about haiku and related forms, and to discover the greatness of perhaps the smallest type of poem. We share commentary on poems from both living and passed on poets. Haiku, senryu, tanka, haiga, haibun, and shahai are selected and written about in-depth, and posted here with the permission of authors, who retain their full copyright. Poets can submit their poems and have it commented on, or submit their own poems with their own commentary." (Source: https://haikucommentary.wordpress.com/about/)

Tanka Origins

"Tanka Origins is an exclusive free digital publication. It accepts only the best works of 21st Century poets who still write

with an "old soul", thereby keeping to the selfless and natural spirit of "waka" aka "tanka", as well as preserving the original sophistication and songfulness of "court poetry"." (Source: https://www.tankaanya.com/submit)

Contemporary Haibun Online

"contemporary haibun online (cho) is, in short, a journal dedicated to promoting and celebrating English-language haibun, tanka prose, and haiga. Their roots reach back to ancient Japan, but they have been thoroughly modernized by today’s authors and artists." (Source: https://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/about-cho/)

To be continued...

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