found: Work cat.: Gajtanoski, I.V. Skrieni trepeti : haibuni, 2012(haibun in Macedonian)
found: Contemporary haibun online, viewed June 20, 2016:home page (a quarterly journal of contemporary English language haibun) haibun definitions (Contemporary haibun is a combination of prose and haiku poetry, sometimes described as 'a narrative of epiphany'. Like English haiku, English haibun is evolving as it becomes more widely practiced in the English speaking world; Paul Conneally, Haibun Director of the World Haiku Club, defines current English haibun as: "Prose that has many of the characteristics associated with haiku--present tense (and shifts of tense though predominant voice 'present'), imagistic, shortened or interesting syntax, joining words such as 'and' limited maybe, a sense of 'being there', descriptions of places people met and above all 'brevity'. The haiku ... should link to the prose but is not a direct carry on from the prose telling some of what has already been said - no - it should lead us on - let our mind want for more, start traveling")
found: LCSH, June 20, 2016(Haibun. UF Hai prose; Haibun, Japanese. BT Japanese prose literature; also established: Haibun, American; Haibun, Canadian; Haibun, French-Canadian; Haibun, Romanian)
found: Wikipedia, June 20, 2016:Haibun (Haibun (literally, haikai writings) is a prosimetric literary form originating in Japan, combining prose and haiku. The range of haibun is broad and frequently includes autobiography, diary, essay, prose poem, short story and travel journal; Haibun is no longer confined to Japan, and has established itself as a genre in world literature)
found: Nezhukumatathil, A. More than the birds, bees, and trees : a closer look at writing haibun, via poets.org website, posted Feb. 20, 2014, viewed June 20, 2016(Haibun combines a prose poem with a haiku. The haiku usually ends the poem as a sort of whispery and insightful postscript to the prose of the beginning of the poem. Another way of looking at the form is thinking of haibun as highly focused testimony or recollection of a journey composed of a prose poem and ending with a meaningful murmur of sorts: a haiku. The result is a very elegant block of text with the haiku serving as a tiny bowl or stand for the prose poem)
found: Official definitions of haiku and related terms, via Haiku Society of America website, viewed June 20, 2016(Haibun: A haibun is a terse, relatively short prose poem in the haikai style, usually including both lightly humorous and more serious elements. A haibun usually ends with a haiku. Most haibun range from well under 100 words to 200 or 300. Some longer haibun may contain a few haiku interspersed between sections of prose. In haibun the connections between the prose and any included haiku may not be immediately obvious, or the haiku may deepen the tone, or take the work in a new direction, recasting the meaning of the foregoing prose, much as a stanza in a linked-verse poem revises the meaning of the previous verse. Japanese haibun apparently developed from brief prefatory notes occasionally written to introduce individual haiku, but soon grew into a distinct genre. The word "haibun" is sometimes applied to longer works, such as the memoirs, diaries, or travel writings of haiku poets, though technically they are parts of the separate and much older genres of journal and travel literature (nikki and kikôbun))
found: The Princeton encyclopedia of poetry and poetics, 2012, via Project MUSE, viewed June 20, 2016(Haibun. A literary form developed in Japan that employs a combination of prose and haiku. A haibun may be as brief as a single terse paragraph followed by a single haiku or an extended work involving an alternation of prose and verse. Accordingly, the haikus may occur singly, in groups, or in linked series, between prose passages. The prose and verse sections of a haibun are intended to function discretely as self-contained texts; however, in combination, they enact a kind of dialogue between them, a compounding of points of view on the same situation or topic. While the form was developed by Bashō out of the haikai trad. of linked verses employing commonplace diction and a light-hearted tone, it has been used for a range of tones and themes; however, personal themes predominate. As with haiku, haibun has been adapted into many langs. and cultures)
