Are you joining the group of people who will be celebrating the shortest month of the year by writing the shortest form of poetry? You can join poets around the world who celebrate the month of February by writing at least one haiku a day for National Haiku Writing Month. You can find out more about it, find daily writing prompts, and much more at the National Haiku Writing Month website. I plan to participate by writing a haiku a day but have not made up my mind if I’ll post all of them here.

Below are some other links you might find helpful as you explore writing haiku this month:
The Haiku Foundation contains the largest physical collection of English language haiku in the world and they are continuously adding to that collection.
Shadow Poetry has an informative guide to writing haiku and senryu as well as information on other poetry types. I love this poet’s writing resource!
Haiku Society of America (I have never used this resource so I can’t vouch for it.)
TweetSpeak has a helpful resource page on haiku.

If you decide to take the haiku writing challenge and plan to post the haiku on your blog, feel free to share the link to your blog in the comments section below. I’m sure that some of us would love to stop by! Happy haiku writing! In honor of the occasion, I’ll leave you with a haiku that I wrote some years ago.

 Snowflake
Twirling, dipping,
dancing down from the heavens
a chuckle from God.