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The Contemporary Haiku in Poets Biography & Poetry Resource Directory
Most Americans have heard of haiku, if ever, during their elementary school years, when they were introduced to a short nature poem with arcane rules of construction. Perhaps they later happened across examples of Japanese haiku, or the ubiquitous humorous derivative forms such as spamku that dot the Internet. But what is this strange little poetry form, and how does it come to be popular here hundreds of years after it came into existance on the far side of the world?. Haiku originally derived from an earlier form of court poetry, called wakka or tanka, in vogue in Japan during the 9th12th centuries.
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