Visit the following sites for more information about the Japanese Garden in Seattle, where you'll find hours, directions, and details about other events at the garden:
Japanese Garden, Seattle
http://www.cityofseattle.net/parks/parkspaces/japanesegarden.htm
Visit the following sites for more information about haiku and tanka:
"Becoming a Haiku Poet"
www.haikuworld.org/begin/mdwelch.apr2003.html
Haiku Northwest (monthly meetings in the Seattle area)
http://sites.google.com/site/haikunorthwest/
Haiku Society of America
Tanka Society of America
Open Directory Portal Site for Haiku and Related Poetry
www.dmoz.org/Arts/Literature/Poetry/Forms/Haiku_and_Related_Forms/ (no longer works)
"Open Window" (haiku and photography by Michael Dylan Welch)
www.brooksbookshaiku.com/welch/index.html
Tundra: The Journal of the Short Poem (edited by Michael Dylan Welch)