updates - 3/12/2010

Ed Baker sent this wonderful haiga in response to the one I posted by Angelee Deodhar yesterday. He writes:

attached is a "frog/pond poem... haiga that I did in 1999.
also

here is one that I sent to Cid in 2000 or so..
I think that it was published in Hummingbird, and/or Modern Haiku, and/or sketch book, and or moonset... I forget exactly.

so many frogs
in one pond
c r o a k i n g !

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This just in from Carole Macrury:

The 11th Tanka Society of America’s

International Competition Call for Submissions

Deadline: Postmark date of May 10, 2010.

Eligibility: Open to all, members and non-members alike, except TSA officers and judges.

Regulations: Any number of tanka may be submitted. Entries must be original, in English, unpublished, and not submitted for publication or to any other contest.

Entry Fee: $1.00 per tanka, U.S. funds only. Please make checks/money orders payable to the "Tanka Society of America."

Submissions: Submit each tanka on three separate 3 x 5 inch cards, two with the tanka only (for anonymous judging), the third with the tanka and the author's name and address in the upper left-hand corner. Type or print neatly please.
Submit entries and fees to: Carole MacRury, 1636 Edwards Drive, Point Roberts, WA 98281-8511 USA

Awards: First prize: $100; Second Prize: $50; Third Prize: $25. Amount of prizes may be reduced if an insufficient number of entries are received. Winning poems will be published in Ribbons, the Tanka Society of America journal.

Adjudication: The name(s) of the judge(s) will be announced after the contest.

Rights: All rights revert to the authors after publication.

Correspondence: Unfortunately, entries cannot be returned. Please send a business size SASE for answers to queries or for a list of winning entries. For foreign entries, send a self-addressed envelope and one international reply coupon.

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2010 Bath Japanese Festival Info Page

Alan Summers sent this (only 61 days left!):

https://sites.google.com/site/bathjapanesefestival/welcome

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Photos from the 1st Quarterly Meeting of the HSA (2010)

This just in from Deborah P Kolodji:

I've posted photos from the 2010 First Quarterly Meeting of the Haiku Society of America on Flickr. It was hosted in Pasadena, California by the Southern California Haiku Study Group.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dkolodji/sets/72157623473511245/

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Angelee Deodhar sent this link to several haibun by Geert Verbeke and friends:

http://haibungeert.skynetblogs.be/