Darren at TwiTip invited the Twitter community to post Top Ten Must Follow Twitter lists. Here are my suggestions if you want to follow All-Things-Haiku on Twitter.
Twitter’s 140-character limit imposes the brevity that makes it a natural forum for the development of haiku habits.
You can catch all Twitter Haiku (sometimes known as “Twaiku”) by subscribing to the following Twitter search in your RSS reader (thanks to Qrystal for sharing this in a comment on this site) -
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=haiku+-haikutwaiku
You may be surprised at how many folks are tweeting haiku, and tagging it with “#haiku” to facilitate Twitter search. I have narrowed the many into 10 Tweeters that I recommend you consider following:
- aj3d – aj3d posts evocative free-form haiku Tweets in both English and Dutch. Adriaan is also a generous and perceptive critic of haiku, who has helped me develop my haiku habits through his frequent comments on this site.
- Qrystal – Qrystal shares her daily activities through frequent and lively haiku and senryu.
- RedPillReality – I’m not sure if RedPillReality is a mystical prophet – or an ingenious Bulgarian computer program (!) – but I am always dazzled by the force and flow of these Twitter storms.
- teafox – Sip delightful tweets from this lover of routine, tea, and haiku.
- comradeharps – This “haiku librarian” publishes insightful haiku on Twitter as well as his own blog – Season Creep.
- zenchine – Contemplative Twitter haiku, also shared with video and photos on the Zenchine site.
- portlandhaiku – Haiku about life in Portland, Oregan, also published on the Portland Haiku site.
- ghost_of_basho – Not as frequent to post as some of the above, but worth the wait.
- givens – Follow on Twitter and at his site – Hyperboreal Notes – for haiku snapshots of daily life.
- Morning_Porch – Not haiku per se, but wonderfully vivid reports on the first-light happenings at a porch in Plummer’s Hollow, Pennsylvania. Don’t forget to check out Dave’s other sites – Via Negativa and Morning Porch.
Oh yes, then there is haikuhabits (me). That makes 11, but haiku is about so much more than following rules.
Did I leave anyone else out? If so, please give them the credit due in the Comments to this post.
Stay tuned for an upcoming post where I explain the perils of Twitter Haiku, including why I recommend you avoid following haikutwaiku. Yes, even Twitter Haiku has drama!
Here’s to the practice of your Haiku Habits!
Update
For an up-to-date list of those I follow for haiku on Twitter see my Haiku Links page.
17 responses so far ↓
piero.d // November 29, 2008 at 10:20 pm |
Thanks for the heads up, there’s a few Twitterers on that list that are new to me. Here’s some more, not everyone’s cup of tea but good tweets to be had:
momku
haikudisiac
5x7x5
notexactlyhaiku
faikuhaiku
blueheron
piero.d // November 29, 2008 at 10:54 pm |
Thought I’d say a bit more about the Twitterers I mentioned:
momku – funny reflections on motherhood
haikudisiac – “horned-up haikus from the belly of Japan” – definitely not the traditional stuff
blueheron – no updates since August, but hopefully will start up again if it notices it’s missed
5x7x5 – not updated very often, but worthwhile tweets
faikuhaiku – not the traditional haiku, often angry but also funny
notexactlyhaiku – strikes me as a window on a booklovers’ life
Adriaan // November 30, 2008 at 7:10 am |
I’d like to add ElectricHobo. The haiku are good, and not 17 syllables:
“cold room tonight/trying to settle in/that’s about it”
“heart of imagination/heart of dreams/it beats loudly”
And NodeDog. Not posting much, some haiku. Ultra-short sometimes:
“Struggling to compose/haiku/I confess I don’t know what I am doing”
“struggling/composing/composed”
Both ElectricHobo and NodeDog are from Santa Fe, NM. Could be the same person for all I know.
Vicki // November 30, 2008 at 1:56 pm |
In the spirit of Morning Porch, I offer BluegrassPoet. Not haiku either (per se) but bright short nature pictures.
Qrystal // November 30, 2008 at 6:10 pm |
haikubirdie – all haiku, all the time, but not tagged with #haiku (to foil that haiku-thief known as haikutwaiku); draws comics, including a comic blog called theHaikuLife.
iMD – clever haiku commentary on life as a student; creator of a facebook group called The Twitter Haiku Movement.
Ken Wagner // November 30, 2008 at 6:55 pm |
Thank you for all comments (so far!).
This is growing into quite a list of haiku Tweeters (22, by my count). There are also some great additional haiku blogs to read
http://haikudisiac.blogspot.com/
http://notexactlyhaiku.blogspot.com/
and two Facebook groups (iMD’s plus The Haikuza from haikubirdie at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=37420317325).
Please keep the haiku suggestions coming.
Qrystal // November 30, 2008 at 8:34 pm |
A recent addition to the haiku people I follow:
letteretcher – does not label tweets with #haiku, but generally seems to stick to 5-7-5 form.
harps // December 1, 2008 at 1:39 am |
Since no one else has mentioned it: http://twitter.com/comradeharps
Daily free-form haiku/senryu tweet.
harps // December 1, 2008 at 1:51 am |
Sorry, I didn’t see myself on the list! My apologies for the unecessary self-promotion. Wow!
harps // December 1, 2008 at 2:08 am |
Thanks Ken.
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aaron // December 6, 2008 at 10:19 am |
hey ken,
just want to say thanks for adding me to you list!
Chuck Lasker // December 12, 2008 at 3:51 pm |
I created a site, http://www.haikutweets.com/, that simply displays the #haiku search feed, excluding specifically haikutwaiku. Enjoy!
@haikutweetscom
Ken Wagner // December 12, 2008 at 7:34 pm |
Great idea! I’ll check it out.
Ace // January 23, 2009 at 10:54 pm |
There is someone Dr Zen – http://twitter.com/sevenlives Is it a guy/girl/Zen or a program?
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kuniharu shimizu // April 17, 2010 at 3:17 am |
I have just published an eBook of illustrated haiku called “wind”.
This is the first haiku book fully illustrated, good for new people to haiku and students
URL: http://tfship.net/bookstore/bkstore.html
Thank you for your attention.
Kuniharu Shimizu
Nara, Japan