jim kacian’s haiku primer - Related Forms
The ninth installment of Jim Kacian’s Haiku Primer 
is now available, here. Last month Jim discussed haiku History;
this month he explores Related Forms — poetic forms similar to haiku,
or stemming from he same Japanese poetic tradition, such as senryu,
zappai, tanka, renga, and renku, which come under the umrella term of “haikai.”
To read all installments to date, click here.
For a layman’s primer, try dagosan’s intro to haiku
cold morning
the scarecrow shrinks
with age
