Millikin University Haiku Anthology
 Millikin University Haiku Anthology (Paperback)
edited by Randy Brooks, Emily Evans, Rick Bearce & Melanie McLay
Publication date: October 11, 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9787441-6-8
$25.00 & $2.50 postage
Bronze Man Books is pleased to publish an anthology that celebrates and showcases work of the Millikin University haiku community. Dr. Brooks has taught haiku courses, the Global Haiku Tradition and Haiku Writing Roundtable, at Millikin since 1999. The Millikin University Haiku Anthology is a collection of the best of the best haiku by current and former students, staff and faculty at Millikin University. The anthology includes award-winning haiku and haiku by the Millikin community previously published in literary journals. It also features new haiku from the Millikin haiku community through an open submissions process.
See a preview of the haiku at Haiku of the Day from the Millikin University Haiku Anthology. There is an RSS feed button you may click to add this to your RSS feed reader at http://www.brooksbookshaiku.com/hod
The Millikin University Haiku Anthology provides a much-needed collection of contemporary English-language haiku for use in secondary and college level classrooms. While students of all ages enjoy contemporary haiku, Bronze Man Books believes that the haiku published in this anthology resonate with high school and college-age students attempting to learn more about the English-language haiku.
The Millikin University haiku studies program was recently recognized by the editor of The Haiku Anthology, Cor van den Heuvel. In the biographical overview of featured authors in a new anthology, Baseball Haiku: The Best Haiku Ever Written About the Game published by W.W. Norton & Company in 2007, editor Cor van den Heuvel writes:
“Randy Brooks is Chair of the English Department at Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, where he also oversees what is undoubtedly the best English-language haiku program of any school in the country.”
Email inquiries about this forthcoming anthology to Dr. Randy Brooks at <rbrooks@millikin.edu> or to the alumni editor, Emily Evans at: <millikinalumnihaiku@gmail.com>
About the Editors
Editorial Team: Dr. Randy Brooks (217-424-6264), Emily Evans (alumni editor), Rick Bearce (student editor), and Melanie McLay (student editor)
Dr. Randy Brooks directs the writing major at Millikin University, with an emphasis on student immersion into communities of writers. He and his wife, Shirley Brooks, are co-editors and publishers of Brooks Books and Mayfly, a haiku magazine. He is on the boards of the American Haiku Archive and the Haiku Society of America and serves as web editor for Modern Haiku magazine. He enjoys immersing students into the art of reading, writing and studying the genre of haiku and related haikai traditions.
Emily Evans (’05) graduated with a degree in Music Business. She returned to her hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, to pursue a Master’s Degree in teaching language arts. She gets her best haiku ideas while riding her bicycle in horrendous weather conditions.
Rick Bearce ('08) just graduated with a degree in Physics.
Melanie McLay ('09) is a music education major.
About the Contributors
The contributors to the Millikin University Haiku Anthology are undergraduate students, staff, faculty, and alumni of Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
Events & Photos
10.14.2007 |
To announce the opening of submissions to the Millikin University Haiku Anthology, Bronze Man Books sponsored a Haiku Poetry Slam on October 14, 2007. See photos of this fun competition won by Emily Evans, our alumni editor.
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Additional Details
Paperback: 192 pages perfectbound
Publisher: Bronze Man Books; First edition (October 11, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-0-9787441-6-8
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