Monday updates

Pamela A. Babusci sent this update:

MOONBATHING

A JOURNAL OF WOMEN'S TANKA

EDITOR
Pamela A. Babusci

Moonbathing Issue 6 is now accepting submissions. I have additional copies of Moonbathing issue 5. If you wish to purchase a copy(ies) please e-mail me.

Moonbathing will publish two issues a year: Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Moonbathing will feature only women poets. Send a maximum of 10 tanka per submission period. Submission deadlines:

Spring/Summer: In-hand Deadline:  May 15th spring/summer themes or non-seasonal only

Fall/Winter: In-hand deadline:  Dec. 15th

fall/winter theme or non-seasonal only
No previously published tanka or simultaneous submissions; no tanka that has been posted on-line on a personal website/blog.

SUBMISSION ADDRESSES:

Send your tanka IN THE BODY OF AN E-MAIL to: Pamela A. Babusci:  moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com PLEASE NO ATTACHMENTS. E-mail submissions ONLY.

I hope that all tanka poets who have their work accepted will support Moonbathing by purchasing a copy or a subscription. If Moonbathing is to survive it will need your support and I will be most grateful for it.

DONATIONS MOST WELCOME
DISCLAIMER:

Moonbathing does not assume liability for copyright infringement or failure to acknowledge previously published tanka.

COPIES/SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Subscriptions: $12 for one year (two issues) U.S. and Canada; $6 for single issue. International: $16
(two issues) $8 single issue U.S. dollars; send US cash or international M.O.—payable to Pamela A. Babusci to: Moonbathing Editor
150 Milford Street Apt. 13 Rochester, NY  14615-1810  USA    PLEASE NOTE: I will be moving into a new apt. by the end of May, so, please check with me for my new address before mailing me-thanks!

The Editor of Moonbathing is looking forward to receiving your best tanka. If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail Pamela A. Babusci moongate44(at)gmail(dot)com

Respectfully submitted,

Pamela A. Babusci, Editor of Moonbathing

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M. Kei sent this update:

Keibooks Announces Atlas Poetica 11 : A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka

Press Release – For Immediate Release – Please post to all appropriate venues

15 March 2012 – Perryville, Maryland, USA

Today Keibooks releases Atlas Poetica 11, the latest issue of the highly regarded journal. Atlas Poetica continues its tradition of focussing upon a topic of particular interest in the field of tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi poetry in English. This issue emphasizes responsive tanka--sequences written by two or more authors in a 'call and response' fashion. Includes a nonfiction article by Dr. Carmella Braniger, several examples of responsive tanka, and a review of a collection of responsive tanka. As always, it publishes individual tanka, kyoka, and gogyoshi, tanka prose and sequences, book reviews, announcements, and other items of interest.

Contributors to ATPO 11 include:

Alexis Rotella, André Surridge, Autumn Noelle Hall, Bob Lucky, Brendan Slater, Brigid Fayers, Bruce D. Reed, Bruce England, Carmella Braniger, Charles Tarlton, Christina Nguyen, Claire Everett, David Edwards, Dawn Bruce, Eric Greinke, Gary LeBel, Gary Severance, Genie Nakano, Ignatius Fay, Jacob Kobina Ayiah Mensah, James Won, Jenny Ward Angyal, Johannes S. H. Bjerg, John Daleiden, Kath Abela Wilson, Laura Maffei, Leslie Ihde, Lisa Tibbs, Lorne Henry, Lucas Stenland,Luminita Suse, M. Kei, Margaret L. Grace, Magdalena Dale, Marilyn Hazelton, Marilyn Humbert, Mary Hind, Mel Goldberg, Melissa Allen, Mike Montreuil, Mira N. Mataric, Nancy Ellis Taylor, Natalie Perfetti, Neal Whitman, Oprica Padeanu, Owen Bullock, Patricia Prime, Peggy Castro, Pravat Kumar Padhy, Raquel Bailey, Randy Brooks, Rodney Williams, S. M. Abeles, Sherry Steiner, Sonam Chhoki, Steven Carter, T. J. Edge, Taro Aizu, Terry Ingram, Tessa J. Wooldridge, Tish Davis, Tracy Davidson, William Cullen, Jr.

Purchase direct from the printer at: <https://www.createspace.com/3776889>

or at Amazon.com or your favorite online retailer.

Keibooks
P O Box 516
Perryville, MD 21903

AtlasPoetica.org

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M. Kei
Editor, Atlas Poetica
A Journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka

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Donna with Haiku Chronicles sent this update:

http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c8a43a56321fd4f4f97df3f7d&id=8a95cfe9ee&e=1307b4d6a5

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Richard Krawiec sent this update:

Thought you might like to have this link to the Frank Stasio show The State of Things, which featured a chilling monologue by Jeff Alguire, an argument scene between a mother and adult daughter featuring Jessicia Hieroniums and Christine Rogers, and discussion of my play Creeds by director Paul Paliyenko.

http://wunc.org/tsot/archive/Creeds.mp3/view?searchterm=creeds

The first two nights the audiences have been great, and the cast outstanding.  Ticket sales are good but I'm sure there will be walk-ups available every night.(It is March Madness time)  If you can, go on a Friday or Saturday, when Anya Russian opens the show with a stunning Dance Overture. It only runs through April 1, Thursday through Sunday, at Common Ground Theater in Durham.

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Come see my controversial play, CREEDS, March 22 - April 1
Common Ground Theater, Durham
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/224259

Check out my websites!

http://www.press53.com/BioRichardKrawiec.html
http://www.rkeditor.com/
http://jacarpress.com/index.html

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Michael Dylan Welch sent this update:

U.S. Postage Stamp with Tanka Translation Released March 24

Michael Dylan Welch is pleased to announce that he and Emiko Miyashita have a waka (tanka) translation appearing on the back of a U.S. postage stamp, in an edition of 15,000,000 copies, that will be released on March 24, 2012. You can read more about the stamp at the United States Postal Service website (https://store.usps.com/store/browse/uspsProductDetailMultiSkuDropDown.jsp?productId=S_468240&categoryId=promo_CherryBlossomCentennial). The translation, shared below, is from their 2008 artbook, 100 Poets: Passions of the Imperial Court (https://sites.google.com/site/graceguts/translations/hyakunin-isshu) (Tokyo: PIE Books). This “forever” stamp celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cherry trees in Washington, D.C.

ひさかたのひかりのどけき春の日にしづ心なく花の散るらん
hisakata no hikari nodokeki harunohi ni shizugokoro naku hana no chiruran

紀友則

Ki no Tomonori (c.850–c.904)

the light filling the air
is so mild this spring day
only the cherry blossoms
keep falling in haste—
why is that so?

Translated by Emiko Miyashita and Michael Dylan Welch

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Ray Rasmussen  sent this update:

Contemporary Haibun Online 8:1 April 2012 -> Celebrating its 8th Year

http://contemporaryhaibunonline.com/

Haibun Today 6:1 March 2012 -> A New Look and New Editorial Staff

http://haibuntoday.com/

A Hundred Gourds 1:2 March 2012 -> AHG A Second Solid Issue

http://ahundredgourds.com

Notes from the Gean  3:4 March 2011 -> Read it Like a Book!

http://notesfromthegean.com/

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Sasa Vazic sent this update:

Hi Curtis,

May I kindly ask you to publish this announcement?

DON'T FORGET TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK TO HAIKU REALITY. THANK YOU !

http://haikureality.webs.com/indexeng.htm

Sasa Vazic, Editor

Thank you and best wishes,
Sasa

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And finally:

The Frugal Poets will sample two recipes sent by contributors to The Frugal Poet: Recipes and Poems for Lean Times anthology/cookbook today. Even though we have an October 31, 2012 deadline, Susan and intend to sample every recipe so please don't delay. The sooner you contribute, the quicker we can cook. Please send a poem, a personal history of the recipe (what it means to you) and a recipe.

Complete guidelines are available at the following URL:

http://www.frugalpoet.com/p/call-for-submissions.html

Monday updates

A new issue of Notes from the Gean is available. Colin Stewart Jones sent this:

Hi Curtis,

Could you please post this for your readers? I have included User Instructions for those who are unfamiliar with the flip format.

NftG 3:4 is on the stands

http://notesfromthegean.com/

There are too many great works to mention individually but thank you all for your contributions and support.

The new flip format works on all browsers and platforms and devices. We have an interactive table of contents and full search facility. Readers also have the option to print, download, or add annotations

Enjoy!

Colin Stewart Jones
Editor-in-Chief
Notes from the Gean

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Charlotte Digregorio sent this:

Hello, Haikuists,

Attached is the press release for Haikufest to be held Saturday, April 28, in Skokie, IL. We hope a lot of haikuists/aspiring haikuists will join us!

Members (family and friends) can RSVP to me. The public will RSVP to the Library.

We have ten readers so far, and I'd really like to nail down a definite number soon.

I think three more readers will be plenty, and I'll cut it off at that.

Generally, each reader can read three published haiku (or haiku accepted for publication) in a haiku journal/haiku anthology. If you have had more than three haiku published or accepted for publication, please read no more than four haiku. Remember, HSA members only.

 If you have any questions about this requirement, please contact me.

Also, readers should introduce themselves and briefly state how they discovered haiku, why they write it, and what inspires them to write (or something else that they feel is relevant).

Please read each haiku slowly and twice, since they are short and we want the audience to grasp them.

Thanks!

Charlotte Digregorio
Midwest Regional Coordinator
Haiku Society of America

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Karina Klesko sent this:

Hello Curtis Dunlap,

Would you be so kind as to place this Haiku announcement on your Tobacco Road Blog:

The Second Showcase Haiku Haijin (SHH) Contest.  The theme is any Spring Kigo.  For complete details see this link:

Second Showcase Haiku Haijin (SHH) Contest

http://poetrywriting.org/SketchbookAnnouncements/Sketchbook_7-1_JanFeb_2012_Announcement_April_20_2012_Sketchbook_SHH_Contest_2.htm

Thank you Curtis

Poetrywriting.org/Karina Klesko/Director
www.poetrywriting.org
Sketchbook
Karina Klesko, Senior Editor
John Daleiden, Editor/Webmaster
kk / jd

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Richard Krawiec sent this:

I'm hoping you can  come see my play CREEDS at Common Ground March 22 - April 1(link below). It's based on the story of Bonnie and Robert Hanssen. He was an Opus Dei Catholic who became a double agent for the Russians.  The cast is killer, led by Lori Mahl(Actors Equity) who made a career for several decades in NYC. She was actually onstage with Carol Channing and Tyne Daly. Also starring Jeff Alguire(Best Actor Award 2011 The Independent).  Even the minor roles are filled with seasoned performers from Playmakers, REP, Burning Coal, and Manbites Dog.

Let me know if you can make it and I can arrange you a friends discount. See the link below

richard
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Come see my controversial play, CREEDS, March 22 - April 1
Common Ground Theater, Durham
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/224259
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Check out our website - Poetry contests coming up.

http://www.jacarpress.com/

http://www.rkeditor.com/

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Theresa Williams has a new haibun chapbook entitled The Galaxy to Ourselves. Details are available at the following URL:

http://thegalaxytoourselves.yolasite.com/

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Norman Darlington sent this:

http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/products-page/

JRR2 is live! 278 pages of Poetry, Essays, Translations and Commentaries - that's almost 100 pages more than our last issue - Issue 2 of Journal of Renga & Renku is on sale now. Just $19.95 for the first month before we revert to the cover price of $25.

This issue includes:
— Essays from Chris Drake, H. Mack Horton, John Carley, Jeremy Robinson, Charles Tomlinson, Dylan McGee, Jeffrey Angles and Molly Vallor.

— A solo shisan by Nobuyuki Yuasa marks the anniversary of the devastating tsunami and earthquake that struck Japan one year ago.

— 47 poems including 30 shisan, and the results and judge's commentary of the 2011 JRR renku contest adjudged by Eiko Yachimoto, in which four poems placed, four received Honourable Mentions, and ten more were critiqued/appreciated in part.

— And much, much more...

Purchase JRR2 here: http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/products-page/

Preview the Table of Contents and Editorial here: http://www.darlingtonrichards.com/index.php/journal-of-renga-renku/preview-issue-2/

Journal of Renga & Renku is listed with the Bibliography of Asian Studies and the MLA International Bibliography

Ralf Bröker - Three Questions

Ralf Bröker was born in Ochtrup, Germany, in 1968. He has worked as a pr-writer in Frankfurt am Main and Dortmund. With his family, he returned to the Münsterland as a journalist and pr-consultant. His first poetic work was published in 1986. He started reading haiku, senyru and haibun in 2007 and began writing them in 2008. Ralf is a member of the German Haiku-Society. His work has appeared in German and English language haiku journals including Sommergras, Chrysanthemum, Sketchbook, Asahi Haikuist Network and The Mainichi Daily News. Ralf's eBook “Seine Blätter” was published in Haiku heute. He is the editor for Haiku from German Tongues, Kukai 2010 and a Facebook-group called haiku-like.

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1) Why do you write haiku?

Haiku has become the hiking song melody of my life. It helps me watch the world and it carries my mindfulness. Haiku gives me pencil, paper and words to notice my here and now. It enables me to deal with my past and to be curious about the future. In rare moments my haiku are more than I am; it allows other people to get to know me a bit. Of course, I don’t see and can’t find my way most of the day. But I am not afraid: I hope to be a whistling haiku pupil for the rest of my life.


2) What other poetic forms do you enjoy?

I like to read all kind of lyrical poems. A good poem makes me dream - and sometimes leads me into nightmares. It shows me a world – and examines my inside. Aside from haiku I love haibun. Its prose technique and haiku spirit open a story, a thought, a feeling, so much more to readers.


3) Of the many wonderful haiku you've written, what do you consider to be your top three?

Wonderful? Many? A very few times a wonder has found its way into my words and shines into a reader’s mind. My primary merit was not to disturb …


mist--
the sound of a fast car
becomes light

Mainichi Daily, 1/6/2010



Snowflake in my hand
if I was dead
it would stay

Asahi, 1/15/2010



cherry tree park
everything pink
on the front page

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Haiku Invitational 2011

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If you are enjoying this series and have not contributed, please consider sharing your response - whether it be for haibun, haiku or tanka - to the three little questions that Ralf answered. You must be a published poet to participate.

One quick update

Norman Darlington forwarded this email from Stephen Gill:

SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 16:30 (G.M.T.), repeated SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 23:30 (G.M.T.)


B.B.C. RADIO 4, ‘THE NARROW ROAD TO THE DISASTER ZONE’

In Japan, this becomes March 12 (Mon.), 01:30 and March 18 (Sun.), 08:30. Listen live here:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_fourfm or listen during the week at your own convenient time on the i-player here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/radio . Go to the A-Z strip and see if the programme is there under N for ‘Narrow’ (or type ‘Narrow Road’ in the search box at top right). The 28-minute feature should be available on that site for listening for at least one week; maybe more.

The programme is about a recent visit to Tochigi, Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures in the north of Japan, tracing part of haiku poet Basho’s Oku no Hosomichi route as much as possible, but presenting a contemporary, hopefully somewhat poetic, account of the present situation there. I proposed this feature to the BBC back in April last year, but they took forever to commission it, which meant we had to travel at the coldest time of year. It was tough. Because of time constraints, the producer, Julian May, who escorted me with a microphone through Tohoku (a la ‘Sora’), has been putting the thing together without a bona fide script, although we did manage to agree on a rough running order of many of the takes. I could not write the script before we went, and was given no time to write it afterwards. In fact, I had to present ‘live’ in the field and come up with poems on the spur of the moment! Anyway, I did a lot of research before we left, so some classical Japanese haiku and tanka poems should be in there, too. I also interviewed and translated several contemporary Tohoku poets’ work. Fingers crossed that it works and that the wonderful people we met up there shine, even via their voice-overs! A great deal of material had to be left out, but has been 'archived' for possible future use. The BBC describe the programme thus... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d26qk .

If you wish to donate money to a group that will use it well, might I suggest It's Not Just Mud http://itsnotjustmud.com/cant-volunteer-donate/ , with whom Julian and I squeezed in a day of work. You can see some photos of the trip on my Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.244391975643866.58666.100002191964463&type=3 .

I hope you enjoy the programme.

Best regards,

Stephen (Tito)

Wednesday updates

Scott Owens sent this update:

Hi, all,

Just a quick reminder that next Tuesday (3/13) is the next Poetry Hickory.  At 4:00, Maureen Sherbondy will lead a workshop on using art as inspiration for writing.  Then at 5:30 we will have Open Mic readings from Bill Mills, Kim Teague, and Patricia Deaton and featured readings from Maureen and Malaika King Albrecht.  Visit www.poetryhickory.com for more detail on our featured writers and Maureen's workshop.  The workshop, by the way, is only $10, and I still have several slots open for anyone interested in participating.

As always, Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse in downtown Hickory will host us, and Main Street Rag will sponsor us.

Looking ahead a bit, in case you haven't heard, at 6:00 on March 20, Taste Full Beans is also hosting a Book Release Party for my new book, For One Who Knows How to Own Land.

Call me (828-234-4266) or email me with questions.

Scott also sent this:

Hey, Curtis,

I hope you can join me for the Book Release Party for my new book, For One Who Knows How to Own Land, at 6:00 on Tuesday, March 20, at Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse in downtown Hickory.  I will bring wine and snacks.  I'll read a little, talk a little, and hopefully sell and sign a few books.  The new one will be $15.

My other books will also be on sale as follows:
Country Roads $20
Something Knows the Moment $10
The Nature of Attraction $5
Paternity $10
The Fractured World $10

Everybody is welcome, so bring friends.

A flier with more details about the new book is attached.

Hope to see you there.

Scott Owens

www.scottowenspoet.com
www.scottowensmusings.blogspot.com
www.poetryhickory.com
www.wildgoosepoetryreview.com
www.234journal.com
www.poetrycouncilofnc.wordpress.com

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Billie Wilson sent this:

Hello Haiku Folk,

Just a friendly reminder that the in-hand deadline is fast approaching for The Robert Spiess Memorial Haiku Awards for 2012.  I think this year's theme is especially intriguing and look forward to how it will be interpreted by haiku poets in their entries:

"Haiku have three forms or manifestations: the written, which enters the eye; the spoken, which enters the ear; and the essential . . . which enters the heart." [Prompted in part by a passage by Sa'in al-Din ibn Turkah.] (from A Year’s Speculations on Haiku by Robert Spiess and published by Modern Haiku Press, 1995).

Guidelines are at Modern Haiku's website: http://www.modernhaiku.org/spiesscontest2012.html

All the best,
Billie

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Charlotte Digregorio sent this:

Hello, Haikuists:

Please see the attachment, and let me know how many of you plan to attend, including your family/friends, so I can pass this information along to the Library. The Library wants Patrons and The Public to RSVP directly to them, but I will provide them with our numbers.

Thanks.

Charlotte

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Katikati Haiku Contest

Hello,

I would be grateful if you could post/share information about this year’s Katikati Haiku Contest, a contest that is held only every 2 years. All proceeds from the contest go towards the Haiku Pathway project in Katikati, the largest collection of haiku “stones” outside Japan.

For the pathway’s 10th anniversary in 2010, 10 new poem boulders were added to the collection ... plus one more, thanks to a surprise gift from the local council. Members of Katikati Lions are now investigating a project to extend the pathway upstream, which will include new poems added to the outdoor gallery.

Please find a page of information about the contest here:
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/katikaticontest2012

Many thanks for your help,
Sandra Simpson
secretary, Katikati Haiku Pathway Focus Committee

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Penny Harter sends the following:

I spent this past week as author-in-residence at St. Mary of the Lake School in Medford, NJ. (As you can tell, the woman in the photo below is not of me but of another author who also visited the school.)

You will find a photo, feature article about my and her visits to the school, and a very brief video clip of me teaching haiku (stressing that all 5-7-5 verses are not haiku) to 4th grade at:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/local/burlington_county_times_news/author-in-residence-a-highlight-of-read-across-america-week/article_f6cf06ac-5b6a-506c-b2e8-a046b4102ada.html

I worked with both 4th and 7th grades, and they wrote haiku, haibun (wonderful haibun which I will encourage the 7th graders to submit), and various prose and verse pieces in response to the Hubble Space Telescope photos.
_____________________________

Author-in-residence a highlight of Read Across America week
www.phillyburbs.com

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Rick Black sent this update:

Dear Curtis,

We are pleased to let you and the haiku community know that the winner of the 2012 Turtle Light Press Haiku Chapbook Contest is Graham High's "The Window That Closes."  It was an especially difficult job this year to pick a winner as so many of the manuscripts were of a high caliber. An honorable mention was taken by Duro Jaiye's "There Was a Time."

TLP plans to publish the winning manuscript in Spring/Summer 2013. We are also going to do an e-anthology to highlight some of the wonderful haiku found in so many of the entries and will let you know when it's up. Here's a link to the full announcment: http://www.turtlelightpress.com/2012-tlp-haiku-chapbook-competition-winner/

Many thanks to all of the contestants who entrusted their poems to us and, of course, to you for sharing the news!

Sincerely,

Rick Black and Kwame Dawes
Judges, TLP 2012 Haiku Chapbook Competition

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Susumu Takiguchi sent this:

WHC NEWS 01 March 2012

WORLD HAIKU REVIEW

Re: Call for Submissions for the Next Issue

Dear Kuyu,

The next issue of World Haiku Review (WHR) is planned for Spring 2012 (end March or early April).

As for haiku poems in English or in English translation, send in by e-mail anything you like, traditional or non-traditional on any topic, free or formal style, kigo or muki, up to ten poems which have not been published or are not considered for publication elsewhere to both: kalaramesh8@gmail.com AND susumu.takiguchi@btinternet.com Please use the font "Ariel", size 12 and present your haiku in the simplest and most straightforward format, all starting from the left margin, avoiding fanciful layout and formation. Please do not forget to write your country with your full name. Suggested themes: Life and late winter and/or spring scenes

The only criterion for selection is quality. Please therefore send in your finest works as soon as you can.

For this issue the deadline is Sunday 25 March. So, please hurry. We ourselves will put selected haiku poems in either the Neo-classical, Shintai (or new style) or Vanguard sections according to their characteristics. You, as the writer, therefore need not worry abouth this classification. Just send what happens to come out best and we will do the rest.

As for other works relating to haiku (haibun, articles, essays, haiga or bookreviews on haiku etc.), just send in whatever you think would deserve publication in WHR. Once again, quality is the key.

If you have books which you wish to be reviewed, send a review copy to me.

I will mention some indications about our selection below for those who may be interested to know them. (For detailed explanation, visit the Editorial of WHR August 2011 at: http://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/whr-august-2011)

We wish to continue to endeavour to present a unique haiku magazine which, while deeply rooted in tradition, is full of new ideas, innovative features or critical views. It will continue to aim at the highest standards and top quality as always.

Kengin to all,

Susumu Takiguchi
Managing Editor and Acting Editor-in-Chief, World Haiku Review
Chairman, The World Haiku Club

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Thursday updates

The new issue of A Hundred Gourds online. Haiku editor, Lorin Ford writes:

A Hundred Gourds 1:2 is now online

Issue 1:2 of A Hundred Gourds: a quarterly journal of haiku, haibun, haiga tanka and renku poetry is now online.

http://ahundredgourds.com

In this issue Ray Rasmussen introduces a feature on ‘The Graphic Haibun of Linda Papanicolaou’. You’ll find AHG’s first renku section, as well as haiku, tanka, haiga and haibun, an essay on the ‘New Junicho’ renku, an interview with Peter Yovu and reviews of three haiku books.

In response to suggestions from our readers and for your ease in locating haiku, tanka and renku poems by author’s name, AHG has now established an index of poets for these sections. This index has also been applied retrospectively to the AHG 1:1 haiku section.

A Hundred Gourds welcomes your submissions to the June Edition, Issue 1:3.

The deadline for all submissions to AHG 1:3 is March 15th.

--
Lorin Ford, haiku editor,
for the Editorial Team
A Hundred Gourds

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The March issue of The Heron's Nest is online:

http://theheronsnest.com/

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Charlotte Digregorio sent this update

Hello, Haikuists:

I have some more details about Haikufest to be held from 2 to 3:30 p.m., Saturday, April 28 at Skokie Public Library, 5215 Oakton St., Skokie, IL.

In general, there will be a brief presentation on haiku to begin the program. Following this, we hope there will be wide participation on the part of Haiku Society members reading their work. Next, there will be time for question and answers from the audience directed to individual readers, or to the moderator about haiku, in general.  We will finish the program with an audience haiku contest.  First, Second, and Third Place Winners will receive copies of "Frogpond."

After the program, we will meet at a restaurant within a few blocks of the Library. This, of course, is optional. Non-members are welcome to join us, too. This will be followed by a Ginko walk (nature walk to inspire haiku writing). The Ginko will be held in Vernon Hills,  and Lidia Rozmus has graciously volunteered to lead it. To end the day, we will have coffee at Lidia's home.

As for Haikufest at the Library, so far, these HSA members are scheduled to read: Lidia Rozmus, Amelia Cotter, Mac Greene, John Han, Tom Chockley, Alicia Hilton, Joanne Crofton, and Tomoko Hata.  We hope more people will read, even HSA members outside the Midwest Region who may find themselves in the Chicago area. Any member who has had three or more haiku published or accepted for publication in a haiku journal or in "Ripples" newsletter may read. Please RSVP as soon as possible and let us know if you plan to read. If you have any questions about your eligibility to read, please contact me.

Once we've nailed down how many readers there will be, we will let them know the maximum number of haiku they may read. Those who read should begin by briefly introducing themselves. They may state, for example, why they like to write haiku, what inspires them to write it, or anything they feel is relevant. We have many interesting members from diverse backgrounds, so we will inspire the audience to start writing haiku, I'm sure.

Last year at Haikufest, we had more than 50 people in the audience, unrelated to members. This year, if you bring friends and family, we will get many more.  In our press release to the media and writer's organizations, etc., we will state that attendees may bring a haiku to the program to enter in the contest, or they can write one during the program when they receive inspiration from the readers.

We'd like to have a few volunteers to help sign in people who attend. It's always good to follow up with attendees and put them on our email list. And, we'd also like to have a few volunteers to help judge the audience haiku contest.

Please contact me with questions or to volunteer. Since we are volunteers, we greatly appreciate your help. And, it's a great way to feel part of the HSA community and network with other friendly members.

Thank you so much. We look forward to seeing everyone!

Charlotte Digregorio
Midwest Regional Coordinator
Haiku Society of America

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Charlotte also passed this along:

Call for Words and Art

A Midnight Snack

Call for words: Poems suitable for late night reading. Poems must be no longer than 56 lines (including lines between stanzas) and no more than 60 characters (including spaces between words) per line. Submit up to three poems by Word attachment to: arlyn@poeticlicenseinc.net.

Call for art: Cover art related to theme. Submit up to three pieces of art by pdf or jpeg, to arlyn@poeticlicenseinc.net.

Regarding line should read: Submission – A Midnight Snack.

E-mail cover letter should include: (1) poet’s or artist’s name as you would like it to appear; (2) e-mail address; (3) street address; (4) title of each poem or piece of artwork submitted; and (5) brief statement of what keeps you awake at night or what you do when you can’t sleep (no x-rating, please).

Poems and artwork must NOT include identifying information such as name, e-mail address, or street address.

Previously published work is fine provided author/artist retains publication rights. Note prior publisher for acknowledgement.

Submission Deadline: May 1, 2012


Notification of Acceptance by August 1, 2012 by e-mail. Poets and artist whose work is selected will receive one contributor’s copy as sole remuneration. Additional copies will be available for purchase.

Submission shall constitute: (1) representation that the submission is original work and that the creator retains publication rights, and (2) agreement that if the work is accepted for publication, (a) Poetic License Press may, in its sole discretion, publish and promote the work in any medium or forum, and (b) the sole remuneration is one contributor’s copy of A Midnight Snack.

Poetic License Press is an affiliate of Poetic License, Inc.


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And finally, Tomislav Maretić sent the link below. The deadline is today, March 1st so hurry if you're going to submit:

http://librasia.iafor.org/haiku.html