WorldHaikuClub.org
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World Haiku Club Homepage
Description
Founded in 1998, the World Haiku Club has planned, organized and now runs the World Haiku Festival 2000 which is in its finale, the London Mark II Conference of May 2001. The Festival began with the "Prologue to WHF2000" in 1998 with various haiku-related events and in 2000, it ushered various programs "for real", first with the launch of our website and mailing lists on the Internet on 1 January. It culminated in the six-day London - Oxford Conference of August 2000, a resounding success. In May 2001, following the " Epilogue to World Haiku Festival 2000 & Advent of JAPAN 2001 ", events of the WHC will be held under the banner of the "World Haiku Festival".
With the two main themes, "Challenging Conventions" and "Charting Our Future", the WHC/WHF started something new in the world haiku scene. Participation in the WHC activities is on an individual basis, though the Club is supported by numerous organizations and haiku movements. (Read WHC's "Mission Statement, below.)
WHC hosts a large community of Internet poetry fora and online educational and helps facilities through YahooGroups "mailing list" servers, for seasoned and novice haijin and poets worldwide (see "Mailing Lists" in the navigation bar on the left side of the page).
