A Year in Haiku
Travel through the seasons with the beautiful images and haiku at this site. Click on a season to read haiku that celebrate that particular time of year. What season is your favorite? Write and illustrate an original haiku about the time of year that you enjoy best.

Lesson on Japanese Ink Techniques
Japanese ink paintings are often displayed alongside haiku. Learn how to create your own Japanese ink painting in a step-by-step lesson offered at this site. Write a haiku of your own and then follow the steps to create a painting to decorate your haiku.

American Tanka
The publication American Tanka offers this site as a resource for writers and readers of tanka verse. Learn more about tanka, a form of unrhymed Japanese verse, by reading a history of tanka and reading some sample poems. Then try your hand at tanka verse by composing your own tanka.