tempslibres - free times

Presentation

A bilingual site (French and English) , a bridge between the international community and the French speaking world. Theory and practice, rules, references texts, essays and articles, information, annotated links, bibliography. Weekly and monthly pages in native languages, haiga, haiku collections, personal subsites. More than 5000 haiku from all regions of the world. tempslibres- free times is not a publication site, a magazine or a journal.

More information about the site and the author

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What is changing on the site ...

What's new ? : journal of the site
Developments : The new sections. (Apr. 24th)
Blog Notes mes notes et réflexions au fil des jours (March 18th)
Latest viruses and computer security information...

My favourites : this fortnight, Archives
Global warming in haiku
Monthly pages : this month, Archives (Ending March 2005)
Links to book reviews

Events

Road to the North...Discover the North through the haiku and related genres.
Menaces de fermeture de deux des plus importants sites français de haïku
575 - Revue de et autour du haïku. (22 mars)
Association française de haïku - Festival 2008, Montréal, 9-12 octobre 2008 Une nouvelle revue électronique autour du haïku francophone. (Dec 22th, 07)
Camp Haïku 2007 - Baie Comeau (Québec) Compte-rendu (18 août 07)

My haïku day by day : the year in haiku

Archives ...

To learn : Theory and practice

A library of texts, to discover how haiku is written, but also to think about its writing. Opposed points of vue, to let readers free to define their own views.

- Reference texts
- Information (Glossary, saijiki) (Jan 14th 05)
- Haiku definitions
- The practice of haiku
- Essays, articles
- Researchs tools
- Studies on haiku
- On Publication ...
- Classic Japanese Haiku
- Haiku Databases

Notes personnelles d'écriture (Jan 18th 07)

Un kit - livret ressources pour débuter en haïku...

Haïku : Une approche par les contraintes. Un livre de théorie sur la composition du haïku. Première présentation au Camp Haïku de Baie Comeau 2007.

- Annotated links
- Annotated bibliography
- Haiku Contests

- Renku

To read ...

Pages of writing

Thematic pages

Author's pages

Authors (known or beginners) I like very much.

Authors' collections

Authors' collections

Author's site

Vladimir Devidé (Croatia)
Jane Reichhold (USA)
Ion Codrescu (Romania)

A few steps with :
Zoran Doderovic (Novi Sad, Yugoslavia)
Paul David Mena (Boston,USA)
Carol Raisfeld (NY, USA)

Index of onsite authors (seq. only)

Haiku Database

Searchable database of this site haiku (by author, language, semantic words, style device, theme...) and a page by author.

Online books on the internet

Online books freely readable and downloadable.Jan 8th,2008

Online collections

Books to leaf through, wonderful collections, for the pleasure of reading ...

Review of publications ...

Authors'  addresses

To discover ...

Bibliographie du haïku en français

Fisrt bibliography of the haiku in French (13 juin 2007)

The world seen by women, its sensitivity, the different look over the things

Children Haiku

Books, articles, links (May 24th)

A window to the French speaking world

Quelques revues francophones publiant des haïku. (Maj. 28 nov..: TRACES)
Maisons d'édition, des associations, liens et notes sur le haïku francophone

Première bibliographie du haïku francophone (June 13th, 2007)

A window to the Russian haiku ...

A new section to discover Russian haiku, but also publications and sites.

A window to the contemporary Japan ...

- A window to Japan, to help to understand the Japanese contemporary haiku, its writing, and to discover what is written today ...

African and African-American Haiku ...

- A new section about African and African-American haiku (Aug. 13th,05)

Erotic Haiku

- A new section to discover what is possible in haiku... In French but with many English translations
L'érotique - Recueil sous la direction de Micheline Beaudry et Janick Belleau

Haiku during wartime ...

At War ... Anthology of Haiku during wartime

Haiku from Islam

Haiku from Islam (March 21th, 06)

Haiku in practice...

Haiku in action...

- The haiku is sometimes written in situations of moral or physical distress, of emotional shock, of war or social collapse ... Articles, essays, uses, accounts.

SOS Liban - The sixth Israelian war Révolte personnelle : Summer rain - Lebanon 2006 Four weeks of bombings...
1.000.000 refugees. Hundreds of dead under the rubble.
Israel eliminates its economic competitor.

Hurricane !

Hurricanes in haiku and especially about the tragedy of the South of USA

Global warming

Global Warm/ning ! : traces in our haiku writing. (Apr.20th, 07)

Other sites of the tempslibres project

More information in the homepage...
LOuve, montagnaise...
short Summers : Cindy Zackowitz (USA)
Summer Evenings : Alenka Zorman (Slovenie)
in the Living Season ... : Marjorie A. Buettner (USA)
Angelee Deodhar : (India)
Evergreen - Ikuyo Yoshimura : Circle of English haiku writing in Gifu, Japan

On other sites ...

.. a droplet of rain by Lee Ana Schaefer
The haiku as a protest : Marlene Mountain

Shiki-temp A temporary mailing list that preserved the Shiki List Spirit during it closure(2001-2002) More information ...

My haiku ...

A journey  in (my)   haiku by themes, seasons

My haïku day by day : the year in haiku (since Nov. 18th 2001)

Notes personnelles d'écriture

Uncensored senryu and haiku against the war (the US Empire at war, day by day...)

Sequences  (Upd Apr.27th)

My collections

fractures : Yugoslavia, Spring 99
Illustrated haiku A gallery with illustrated haiku, drawings, wash drawings with Indian ink.

The site is updated quite every day : please read the journal of the site

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Important note : free times is not a publication site, a magazine or a journal. It is an information place for all about the haiku. All haiku are collected on mailing-lists, or sent for sharing by authors.

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