Sharing your Haiku
Once you've written a few haiku, share them online to get feedback from your friends.
You can use social media, write a blog, or post a video-poem on youtube.
Social Media
When you post on a personal Facebook page, usually only your friends see it.
If you want everybody to see what you are posting, you can create a Facebook page that would be visible to everybody.
Facebook pages can be used for groups like NaHaiwriMo, Haiku Foundation, for conferences like Haiku North America, or for authors. These public Facebook pages are indexed, so your posts might come up in Google search.
It's free to open a Facebook account (private or public page).
Twitter started in 2010. You can tweet from a mobile phone or any desktop computers. The maximum characters was initially 140 (but has since been increased), which is enough for a haiku or tanka, with hastags.
If your tweet, just remember that your tweets are public and visible to everybody.
You want people to find and follow you and interact with your posts by liking them, retweeting them.
In order for people to find you, add a hastags to your poem like #haiku or #tanka.
Hashtags act as a way to index and find similar post. So If I’m interested in haiku, I’m going to search for #haiku. And If I click on #haiku here in this post, it acts as a link, it will take me to a list of all posts on twitter with the hashtags #haiku.
If you want to share haibun (which are longer), you can take a screenshot.
Upload a photograph wiht your haiku. People love visual on social media.
Website
Creating a website with Wordpress or Weebly is easy and free. You can have your website set up in a few hours.
Wordpress
When you open a free wordpress account, your web address will be in this format: oldpondcomics.wordpress.com
Note: It's also possible to buy a domain name and connect it to your wordpress to have a more official looking website but there is an additional cost.
There are lots of free templates to chose from.
Weebly
Weebly is great for small author's website.
With the free version you are limited to five headings, which should be sufficient for most poets.
An example of a website done with Weebly is the HNA website.
Blog
Visit the blog Red Dragonfly by Melissa Allen for great examples.
Tips:
1. Add some visual with your blog post, weather it’s a photograph or a collage.
2. Try to find an innovative way to present your poem
3. Be original. Give a reason for people to follow you
4. Write regularly, weather you decide to blog once a day, or 3 times a week, stick to the schedule! Otherwise your reader will loose interest.
On Daily Haiku by Andy, Andrew Dugas was writing a haiku on a postcard, taking a picture and mailing the postcard to somebody. He wrote 1,001!
Video Poems
Making a video poem doesn’t have to be complicated.
Ed Bremson simply sang his haiku.
Luce Pelletier's video start with a title card with the name of the poem, then she starts her audio recording device, recite the poem, then there’s another card with the credit, title of the poem.
David G. Lanoue's created a cartoon animation based on issa's snail. He wrote a song, performed it, and edited the whole thing together.
iPad Haiga
iPad arrived on the market around 2010. There are two poets who adopted it almost immediately to do haiga: Kris Kondo and Alexis Rotella.
For example, the haiga by Kris Moon (Kris Kondo) are very fluid. One of the main characterists of the iPad haiga is that you draw using with your fingers. The iPad is a touchscreen. You can see the traces of the fingers on the artwork.
Alexis Rotella’s work is complex. She uses different apps and techniques, on her iPad.
If you don’t have an ipad, you can use a photo editing software.
Audiobooks and Podcasts
Audiobooks
You can record an audiobook at home, just by reading your haiku in a recording device.
On the site, Living Anthology , you can hear poets read and perform heir haiku. Listen to a clip by Roberta Beary.
Podcasts
You can even record a podcast. A podcast is a kind of small radio segment that you produce for the web.
Haiku Chronicles have 26 episodes on subjects like American Haiku, The four Pillars of haiku like Basho Issa, they also do videos now.
Most of these shows are Alan Pizarellia, Donna Beaver and a guest talking about haiku. Lots of giggles. You can download them
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