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. Later, the haijinx portal also included one of the first haikai blogs. An overview of the origins and philosophy of haijinx is available in Mark’s introduction from our unpublished print issue.
At the time haijinx suspended 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.
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.
Another feature was the haijinx weekly wire (hww) which started in 2001/2002 as both a haikai news feed and an alternate distribution of haijinx. For hww, later named the haijinx wire, we split issues into weekly segments sent via email with the addition of contest and submission deadlines, award announcements, etc. The haijinx wire was originally managed by Linda Robeck and Mark Brooks and later by Paul Miller.
There’s brief mention of both haijinx and the haijinx weekly wire in Charles Trumbull’s overview of haiku on the internet found in Modern Haiku 37.1. haijinx suspended activities from 2003 through 2009. On March 5, 2004, the original issues of haijinx were pulled from the web due to broken links.
On February 14, 2010, Mark relaunched the haijinx portal with a new haikai twitter feed, @haijinx, the core of the modern haijinx wire. If you would like your announcement included, please contact Mark either by DM on Twitter or by using this form.
On March 5, 2010, six years after being pulled due to faulty external and internal links, the haijinx archive of the original issues returned. You can read the issues by going to the top haijinx menu or simply click here. The first weekly archive was sent to the relaunched haijinx wire that same evening. For haijinx wire archives and subscription information, please visit the haijinx wire page.
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.
On March 20, 2010, the equinox, Alan Summers, Carmen Sterba, and Mark Brooks continued the relaunch of haijinx with the haijinx quarterly, a journal focused on putting the hai back in haiku.
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