Darren at TwiTip invited the Twitter community to post Top Ten Must Follow Twitter lists. Here are my suggestions if you want to follow All-Things-Haiku on Twitter.
Twitter’s 140-character limit imposes the brevity that makes it a natural forum for the development of haiku habits.
You can catch all Twitter Haiku (sometimes known as “Twaiku”) by subscribing to the following Twitter search in your RSS reader (thanks to Qrystal for sharing this in a comment on this site) –
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=haiku+-haikutwaiku
You may be surprised at how many folks are tweeting haiku, and tagging it with “#haiku” to facilitate Twitter search. I have narrowed the many into 10 Tweeters that I recommend you consider following:
- aj3d – aj3d posts evocative free-form haiku Tweets in both English and Dutch. Adriaan is also a generous and perceptive critic of haiku, who has helped me develop my haiku habits through his frequent comments on this site.
- Qrystal – Qrystal shares her daily activities through frequent and lively haiku and senryu.
- RedPillReality – I’m not sure if RedPillReality is a mystical prophet – or an ingenious Bulgarian computer program (!) – but I am always dazzled by the force and flow of these Twitter storms.
- teafox – Sip delightful tweets from this lover of routine, tea, and haiku.
- comradeharps – This “haiku librarian” publishes insightful haiku on Twitter as well as his own blog – Season Creep.
- zenchine – Contemplative Twitter haiku, also shared with video and photos on the Zenchine site.
- portlandhaiku – Haiku about life in Portland, Oregan, also published on the Portland Haiku site.
- ghost_of_basho – Not as frequent to post as some of the above, but worth the wait.
- givens – Follow on Twitter and at his site – Hyperboreal Notes – for haiku snapshots of daily life.
- Morning_Porch – Not haiku per se, but wonderfully vivid reports on the first-light happenings at a porch in Plummer’s Hollow, Pennsylvania. Don’t forget to check out Dave’s other sites – Via Negativa and Morning Porch.
Oh yes, then there is haikuhabits (me). That makes 11, but haiku is about so much more than following rules.
Did I leave anyone else out? If so, please give them the credit due in the Comments to this post.
Stay tuned for an upcoming post where I explain the perils of Twitter Haiku, including why I recommend you avoid following haikutwaiku. Yes, even Twitter Haiku has drama!
Here’s to the practice of your Haiku Habits!
Update
For an up-to-date list of those I follow for haiku on Twitter see my Haiku Links page.