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A collection of acrostic name poems by Nicholas Gordon; works are free for any personal or non-commercial purpose.
Descriptions with examples of the triolet, terzanelle, terza rima, villanelle, and clerihew.
Short descriptions of both stanza and poetic forms, with examples. By H.T. Kirby-Smith at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Brief explanations with examples of nearly all aspects of poetry, including forms, types, techniques, and national histories.
Descriptions with examples of a variety of poetic forms, including the cinquain, kyrielle, pantoum, rondeau, sonnet, and triolet. From Forward Press.
A haiku anthology built entirely online, and featuring quick loading, single-haiku presentation for contemplation, and brief biographical notes on authors.
A lesson in Haiku appreciation and writing, conducted by Paul Brown.
Haiku by Soji, aka Gary Barnes, haiku by the masters, Basho, Buson, Issa, and by a number of contemporary practitioners of the art in English.
Gateway to the English-language pages of the museum in Tokyo run by the Haiku Poets Association, Japan's largest haiku organization.
A series of hikes through the London Olympic Development Site will take place with participants encouraged to share their feelings haiku-like or otherwise.
A description of the form with instructions on how to write one.
By English journalist Edmund Clerihew Bentley, the inventor of the form.
This interactive 'net artifact is an exercise in computer glossolalia that allows users to randomly generate metrically perfect nonsense-limericks--in an "alien" (that is, not spoken, now nor ever, on Earth) language.
The two earliest known books of limericks, with a link to a third. Part of an Edward Lear home page.
A limerick page for children, with a simple explanation and some family-friendly examples, including the option to print out limericks in color. Be warned: the site generates pop-up and new-browser-window ads.
A brief history and explanation along with numerous examples from "A Book of Nonsense" by Edward Lear.
A blog that collects a number of sites relating to Edward Lear, the creator of the limerick.
A description and explanation of the form, with examples and a step-by-step guide to writing one.
By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Unusual in its use of rhyme.
Translations into English of Korean sijo from poets of the Classical period.
An introductory page by Larry Gross, a leading proponent of writing sijo in English, with some of his poems and links to his several pages on the subject, and an e-mail discussion list on the subject.
Instructions on how to write a Shakespearean sonnet with an analysis of the form and content of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.
An eleven sonnet sequence by George Eliot.
By Brandon Astor Jones, as of 1996 a prisoner on death row. From the archives of The Green Left Weekly.
By Oscar Wilde.
Web site of this worldwide membership group, with pages of scores of members' haiku and other resources. Webmaster Bin Akio, a senior member of Japan's haiku community.
Web site of the Yuki Teikei Haiku Society of United States and Canada, a Bay Area group with international membership and extensive activities built around a tradition-based understanding of haiku.
This is a group for discussing the art and the problems of translating haiku, from any language into another. Managed by Gabi Greve.
Samples of poetry and some thoughts on haiku by Dan Brady.
Regular notes from poet and author Edward Weiss
A haiku weblog by jem.
A haiku and related poetry weblog in Scots and English by John McDonald.
A weblog community of poets, sharing haiku on the subject of this winter, 2007-2008, hosted by Isabel and Mandy.
Essays, examples, links and interviews presenting a uniquely American form of haiku, created by poet Allen Ginsberg. Features the "American sentences" of Paul Nelson.
The Genuine Haiku Generator, powered by JavaScript, creates evocative, meaningful verse (?) using completely random combinations of individual words. Save your favorite haiku online, or send one to a friend. (May be X-rated.)
If programmers were more into Haiku these are the sort of error messages you might see. (This appears to be the same as the original Salon.com set, see below.)