Haiku in English founded National Haiku Writing Month, also known as NaHaiWriMo. It has been held in February of each year, starting in 2011, with the objective to write at least one haiku per day all month long—"the shortest month of the year for the shortest genre of poetry," according to Welch. Although the vast majority of haiku published in English are three lines long, variants also occur. The most common variation from the three-line standard is one line, sometimes called a "monoku". It emerged from being more than an occasional exception during the late 1970s. The one-line form, based on an analogy
Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall Bradwell or Bradwell Juxta Coggeshall is a village and civil parish in Essex, England. It is located on the River Blackwater, approximately east of Braintree and is north-northeast from the county town of Chelmsford. The village is in the district and parliamentary constituency of Braintree. The parish is part of the Blackwater parish cluster. The name can be confused with Bradwell-on-Sea, also in Essex, which is often abbreviated to just "Bradwell". The name derives from Old English meaning broad well. To this day there is a spring a few metres north of the modern manor house of