haijinx, an international web-based journal focused on putting the hai back in haiku, first enjoyed activity in the early 2000s.
Created by Mark Brooks and staffed by an international band of editors, haijinx features haiku, articles, reviews, poet spotlights and detailed author bios.
The haijinx weekly wire (hww) started in 2001/2002 as both a haikai news feed and an alternate distribution of haijinx. Starting in 2002, the haijinx portal also included one of the first haikai blogs, one written under Mark’s haigô, Shimi.
At the time haijinx ceased publication in 2003, the editorial staff included Mark Brooks, Alan Summers, Serge Tomé, Carmen Sterba, Paul Miller, Linda Robeck and Billie Wilson. The majority of the design elements, not to mention a great number of excellent haiga, originated with haijinx‘s artist-in-residence, Kuniharu Shimizu.
An overview of the origins and philosophy of haijinx is available in Mark’s introduction from our unpublished print issue.
A list of poets, artists and contributors is here. Spotlight poets include: Janice Bostok, Randy Brooks, David Cobb, John Crook, Dhugal Lindsay, Peggy Willis Lyles, George Swede, Ikuyo Yoshimura, and Ryu Yotsuya.
Essays and articles from Susumu Takiguchi, Nobuyuki Yuasa, William J Higginson, Serge Tomé, Michael Dylan Welch, David Lanoue, Patrick Gallagher, Alan Summers, Carmen Sterba, Mark Brooks, and more.
On March 5, 2004, the original issues of haijinx were pulled from the web due to broken internal and external links.
On March 5, 2010, those original issues of haijinx, with broken links repaired or removed, returned to the web.
I:1 (2001) | I:2 (2001) | memorial (2001) | II:1 (2002)
Please let us know about any broken links in the archived issues. haijinx does not plan on updating the 2002 author bios at this time. If that changes it will be noted here. For now, please consider those to be time capsules.
Please stay tuned for more news about the return of haijinx.
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