Tadao Okazaki Special Prize from "Modern Haiku Magazine" Cicada Prize from "Cicada, the Journal of Canadian Haiku Society" He has published his three-line and free-verse haiku poems in Frogpond, The official journal of the Haiku Society of America; Modern Haiku; Cicada; New Cicada; Bottlerocket (in press) ; Contemporary Haibun and others. Published “Free verse haibun” poetry, where the traditionally prose part of haibun is replaced with English free-verse. Okazaki Proposed “Haiku-Ballad Theory,” that defines classical haiku form as a tri-meter/ tetra-meter/ tri-meter iambic triplet ballad. Okazaki is an old member of the Haiku Society of America, and one of very few Japanese
Haiku theoretician F. S. Flint, who passed on Couchoud's ideas to other members of the proto-Imagist Poets' Club such as Ezra Pound. Amy Lowell made a trip to London to meet Pound and find out about haiku. She returned to the United States where she worked to interest others in this "new" form. Haiku subsequently had a considerable influence on Imagists in the 1910s, notably Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" of 1913, but, notwithstanding several efforts by Yone Noguchi to explain "the hokku spirit", there was as yet little understanding of the form and its history. R. H. Blyth