James William Hackett (August 6, 1929 - November 9, 2015) was an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

who is most notable for his work with

haiku in English A haiku in English is an English-language poem written in the Japanese poetry style known as haiku, which correlates the two languages. The degree to which haiku in English resemble classic Japanese haiku varies, but many of these poems draw on s ...

. The James W. Hackett Annual International Award for

Haiku is a type of short form poetry originally from Japan. Traditional Japanese haiku consist of three phrases that contain a ''kireji'', or "cutting word", 17 '' on'' (phonetic units similar to syllables) in a 5, 7, 5 pattern, and a ''kigo'', or se ...

, named after him, was administered by the British Haiku Society from 1991 to 2009.The British Haiku Awards 2010
on the British Haiku Society website His books include ''Bug Haiku'', ''The Way of Haiku'', ''Zen Haiku and Other Zen Poems'', and ''A Traveler's Haiku''.

References

External links

The Haiku & Zen World of James W. Hackett
1929 births 2015 deaths English-language haiku poets {{US-poet-1920s-stub