haijinx, an international web-based journal that focused on the hai in haiku, enjoyed activity in the early 2000s. Created by Mark Brooks and staffed by an international band of editors, haijinx featured haiku, articles, reviews, poet spotlights and detailed author bios. Later, the haijinx portal also included one of the first haikai blogs. An overview of the origins and philosophy of haijinx is available in Mark's introduction from our unpublished print issue.

Another feature was the haijinx weekly wire (hww) which started in 2001/2002 as both a haikai news feed and an alternate distribution of haijinx. For hww, later named the haijinx wire, we split issues into weekly segments sent via email with the addition of contest and submission deadlines, award announcements, etc. The haijinx wire was originally managed by Linda Robeck and Mark Brooks and later by Paul Miller. There s brief mention of both haijinx and the haijinx weekly wire in Charles Trumbull s overview of haiku on the internet found in Modern Haiku 37.1. haijinx suspended activities from 2003 through 2009.

On March 5, 2004, the original issues of haijinx were pulled from the web due to broken links.

On February 14, 2010, Mark relaunched the haijinx portal with a new haikai twitter feed, @haijinx, the core of the modern haijinx wire. If you would like your announcement included, please contact Mark either by DM on Twitter or by using this form.

On March 5, 2010, six years after being pulled due to faulty external and internal links, the haijinx archive of the original issues returned. You can read the issues by going to the top haijinx menu or simply click here. The first weekly archive was sent to the relaunched haijinx wire that same evening. For haijinx wire archives and subscription information, please visit the haijinx wire page. A selection of unpublished articles from haijinx is being prepared for online release in 2010. The first one, Mizuhara Shûôshi's "Truth in Literature, Truth in Nature", translated for haijinx by Hiroaki Sato, is now online.