The fifth Haiku North America conference took place at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., July 8–11, 1999. Organizers were Sara Brant, Joseph Kirschner, Lidia Rozmus, and Charles Trumbull. Highlights included Gerald Vizenor on “Haiku Culturalism,” George Swede’s historical overview, “Haiku: Looking East, Looking West,” and Haruo Shirane about Western misconceptions of Japanese haiku, “Haiku: Looking West.”